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of the characters with their inner
thoughts bubbling up to the surface
great ass goes out with that loser
patrick vapin what a dork
another martini paul with bateman feeling
inferior after being caught a door can
seem the success of paul allen brings a
wave of pressure that his mask can no
longer handle
[Music]
the shallowness and ridiculousness of
this whole situation is then perfectly
summed up at the scene of bateman
dragging paul's dead body into his car
as he's dragging away this body bag his
colleague notices him but only to
question the brand of bag rather than to
question the morbid intentions the bag
is being used for
where did you get that overnight bag
[Music]
sean paul gautier however in the
following scene it pans back to bateman
in his office just where he started
before listening to music in his own
little world almost to him that all of
this was just a fantasy inside of his
head it's this pattern of daytime
monotony a nightly release that repeats
throughout the film and that's why i
believe the killings throughout this
film are a metaphor for bateman releasing
his shadow self it's all to escape the
drab meaningless culture that is eroding
his inner self and i think this is why
so many men flock to american psycho
because so many men find themselves
repeating a similar pattern a pattern of
wearing your mask through the day and
stifling your inner self to releasing
the shadow at night through excessive
hedonistic behavior but to fully
understand why this happens we first
need to understand the looking glass
self sociologist charles cooley
theorized that people develop their
sense of identity through their
perception of others views using social
interaction as a type of mirror people
use the judgments they receive from
others and the culture around them to
measure their own character values and
behavior so when you have a looking
glass that erodes character humor and
authentic self-expression your identity
erodes and you become invisible to those
around you and if you can't express your
abilities human character you may start
to feel a profound sense of emptiness a
sense of worthlessness and
soul-destroying nihilism and patrick
bateman represents this everyday
repression of expression in a
corporatized mega metropolis world where
the cleanliness and sterile nature of
everyday life becomes so unbearable that
the um self becomes extreme where your
shadow self metastasizes in response to
your eroding identity you may want more
power you may want control you may want
to tell everyone what you really think
is that all you ever have to contribute
what about dinner
or in the case of patrick bateman this
may emerge in the form of murderous
fantasies because patrick bateman's inner
shadow is swallowing him up earth just
opens up and swallows them this is why
throughout the film we see patrick
releasing his inner shadow at home
watching either extreme porn and horror
films in a casual manner just to fill
something or using prostitutes and drugs
which is why bateman later admits that
he's not very good at controlling his
willpower i don't want to ruin your
willpower
that's all right
i'm not very good at controlling it
anyway because the willpower to maintain
the mask is unbearable the lashing out
at his colleagues what's the matter no
shiatsu this morning touching me
hold on there little buddy the erratic
behavior using hookers degrading those
low in the social hierarchy and
eventually breaking up with his fiance
is all a coping mechanism they're not
terribly important to me
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