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title-Why Men Love American Psycho
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american psycho is a warning more than
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20 years after its release and american
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psycho continues to maintain its
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cultural grip when i look at youtube
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profiles twitter handles and instagram
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profiles i'm often met with the site of
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patrick bateman when i go online i see
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american psycho memes continuing to spread
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like wildfire
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[Music]
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this is because american psycho is one
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of the only films that expertly taps
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into the psyche of men it's a film that
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leaves you questioning your sense of
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reality it's a film that shows us the
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consequences of masking our personality
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our opinions and true self it shows us
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the hollowness of our atomized cities
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and soul-crushing workspaces and most
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importantly it shows us the absurdity of
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the post-modern era where everyone
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dresses the same talks the same has the
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same opinions as the same plastic masks
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covering their shriveled core
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the movie begins in a high-end
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restaurant where the waiters sound
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exactly the same rabbit with herb french
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fries our pasta tonight is a split rare
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roasted partridge rest in raspberry
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cooling with a sorrel the movie then
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cuts to a table with patrick bateman and
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his wall street associates where they
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engage in a superficial conversation
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the chicks restaurant why aren't we
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doors yet each of these yuppies are
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trapped inside of their bubble now this
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might not seem important but this sets
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the scene for the whole film the key
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theme in this film is that no one
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actually knows each other they don't see
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each other they all put up their masks
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and see each other's facades but i'll
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talk more on that later in the next
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scene they all go off to a nightclub
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where patrick bateman goes to the bar to
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order a drink there patrick bateman has
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met with an aggressive bar lady and this
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is where we see bateman's inner thoughts
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come to the surface
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and play around with your blood
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but her non-responsive attitude makes it
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seem as though this is all within side
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patrick's head this scene gives us an
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excellent look about what this movie is
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all about it's a movie about personas
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and the shadow self a trope that has
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been played on throughout history
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through the biblical stories of angels
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and demons to the yin and the yang these
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are all metaphors that are key to
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understanding our own psychological and
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societal development the pathway
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to
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completion as a human being is through the
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is through the um
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embodiment of the monster
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embodiment of the monster that's the
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discovery of the shadow it's the theme
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of personas which this whole film is
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about the persona is the mask you wear
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in public that you think you are but
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you're not the persona contains all the
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things that modern culture says is good
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and the shadow itself contains
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everything that's not part of that a
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path to a greater character to a more
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effectual approach to life lies in
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integrating those elements of our psyche
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that for too long have been repressed
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and denied and as we see throughout the
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film the bifurcation between patrick's
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shadow self and his public persona
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becomes increasingly problematic
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the film then cuts the infamous scene of
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bateman's morning beautification routine
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with all his layers of conditioners gels
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exfoliators and ice packs the film makes
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a key point in showing the plasticness
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and the absurdity of the efforts we go
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to for crafting our polish public
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persona because we go to all of this
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effort to hide our authentic self
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there is an idea of a patrick bateman
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some kind of abstraction
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but there is no real me
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only an entity something illusory and
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this is seen everywhere within the film
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