Originally posted by cdtm
Speaking of American Psycho, been thinking about the ending. The Paul Allen thing, do you think Bateman even knew Paul Allen? Was he just hacking up someone and imagining it was Paul Allen in his head?The writers went on record saying Batman was definitely a serial killer, but that the hookers may have been less pretty, or the plans may have been less smooth then he imagined, so I'm kind of picturing The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Texas Chainsaw Massacre mixed with Scarecrow gas infected characters from Batman Begins, or something. Yeah, it happened, but absolutely nothing happened the way we saw it.
The answer is in the title. Psychopathy is characterized by auditory and visual hallucinations. The events of the film only happened in his mind.