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Originally Posted by magicman531
American Pyscho
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can someone explain to me what happens at the end? the lawyer claims to have had lunch with Paul Allen and Bateman's secretary is going through his drawings, which I assumed meant she discovered what he was doing.
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they're playing with the definition of psycho. is he psychotic in the colloquial sense, as in a sociopathic serial killer, or is he psychopathic in the clinical sense, as in he's lost touch with reality? you can really interpret it either way.
one thing that the medium of film couldn't represent as well as the novel did, was to represent the strylized manhattan that bateman lives is, where every yuppy is so similar that you can't tell one from the other.
knowing that is key, because we don't know if people are confusing other people with paul allen because they're all doppelgangers, or if the murders were all in poor, boring, bateman's head because he's lame in real life so he needs a fantasy land where he harms people.