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where we see the bland staleness of
modern metropolises with skyscrapers
buildings all being carbon copies of one
another with each office within each
building being the same artificial box
with the same artificial lighting with
all the people in these offices looking
talking and acting identically to one
another
the cinematography and atmosphere is
perfectly designed to resemble the
monotonous drone of post-modern america
where you live in a box and work for an
uncaring machine that demands
productivity where no natural behavior
is allowed neither in the office or with
the people around you where everyone's
wearing the exact same clothes they
don't want to wear everyone showing up
to a job they don't want to do and have
no connection for where every week
you're trying to fill that hole in the
sad shadow of a life that you're left
with and this is what the film warns of
because when you're consumed in the
sterile culture that rewards lukewarm
morality above all else you're
programmed to never incorporate your
shadow self which denicia was a key part
of self-development he described this
process as going beyond good and evil
but this can only be done when you
loosen your mask and escape the confines
of conventional expectations to do this
as a man you need aggression and
expression for your own self-development
but in a culture that erodes authentic
self-expression and rewards material
conformity we start to see the
consequences of this begin to manifest
and this is exactly what american psycho
taps into
we see this in the next scene where
patrick is with his fiance on another
night out in this scene it quickly
becomes obvious that their relationship
is only a social mask to keep up their
public appearances to fit in with the
rest
because i want to fit
in
with the whole night out being another
means of blending in and conforming as
they walk in everything is comedically
shallow patrick's supposed friend is
kissing his wife patrick is indifferent
about it as he's having his own affair
and the person he's with is drugged out
of their mind because for these people
to release their shadow self they have
to gratify their immediate impulses to
feel some sort of connection and the
holiness of this whole situation is
perfectly summed up with patrick
bateman's social justice corporate
political speech
and oppose racial discrimination and
promote civil rights while also
promoting equal rights for women
most importantly we have to promote
general social concern
we have to encourage a return
to traditional moral values he's just
forced into being another walking
talking clone of this corporate culture
births where the most bland and trite
opinions are the only way to keep up the
public persona but meanwhile deep inside
everyone is living a completely opposite
life to their supposed values for
example bateman talks about returning to
traditional moral values and everyone
agrees with them while simultaneously
taking drugs having affairs and hating
each other with their connections to one
another being as fake as their masks and
this hypocrisy continues to unravel as
the film goes on the first sign of this
hypocrisy comes in the next scene the
laundrette where after just talking
about moral values and cohesion and
concern for others beyond sheets are
covered in blood or while bateman is
screaming at the workers
listen i cannot understand you
crazy you're a fool i can't cope with
the stupid fishy because we're seeing
bateman's real shadow side the bateman
that isn't covered up by a mask where
all his repressed tension is released