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A American Psycho (2000)
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American Psycho (2000)

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Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 101m
Director: Mary Harron
Cast: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto

Synopsis:

27 year-old Patrick Bateman works as a highly paid vice-president of an acquisitions and mergers company in 1987 Manhattan - by day; by night he murders people. Or at least so he tells us, along with the products he uses and the music he prefers.

Review:

The Eighties were materialist and obsessed with seeming, and so is this character, played with admirably controlled mania by Bale in the performance of his career to date. Direction, too, is perfectly judged to point up the absurd vanity of the consumer values on show, and the distressing contrast offered by violent death. Like "A Clockwork Orange", re-released in Britain the same year, the film ends on an 'I'm cured' note which fits oddly with the opening assertions of insignificance.

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Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 101m
Director: Mary Harron
Cast: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto

Synopsis:

27 year-old Patrick Bateman works as a highly paid vice-president of an acquisitions and mergers company in 1987 Manhattan - by day; by night he murders people. Or at least so he tells us, along with the products he uses and the music he prefers.

Review:

The Eighties were materialist and obsessed with seeming, and so is this character, played with admirably controlled mania by Bale in the performance of his career to date. Direction, too, is perfectly judged to point up the absurd vanity of the consumer values on show, and the distressing contrast offered by violent death. Like "A Clockwork Orange", re-released in Britain the same year, the film ends on an 'I'm cured' note which fits oddly with the opening assertions of insignificance.


Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 101m
Director: Mary Harron
Cast: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto

Synopsis:

27 year-old Patrick Bateman works as a highly paid vice-president of an acquisitions and mergers company in 1987 Manhattan - by day; by night he murders people. Or at least so he tells us, along with the products he uses and the music he prefers.

Review:

The Eighties were materialist and obsessed with seeming, and so is this character, played with admirably controlled mania by Bale in the performance of his career to date. Direction, too, is perfectly judged to point up the absurd vanity of the consumer values on show, and the distressing contrast offered by violent death. Like "A Clockwork Orange", re-released in Britain the same year, the film ends on an 'I'm cured' note which fits oddly with the opening assertions of insignificance.

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