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Originally Posted by Bullitt68
According to the director, she didn't intend the film to be so ambiguous and considers it a failure on her part that so many people were confused. I haven't read the novel, but apparently it's a lot clearer that Bateman was in fact killing people.
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naw, it's more ambiguous in the book. it just works better in that medium.
she did a really good job, but made some really critical errors. for instance, for dramatic purposes (and prolly just because she wanted to work with him), she cast willam defoe as the PI as more of a straight PI type, whereas in the novel he's another twentysomething yuppy who looks just like bateman, allen/owen, van patten, and the rest of them. she played with the all alike theme, but didn't quite use it correctly, because she needed to create a more surreal atmosphere to pull the ending off.