Ridiculously thought-provoking. The underside of the American dream. When it is often presented as a path to follow, a social and personal ascension, possibly all the way to the top, American Psycho proposes to show us not how you get there, but who you have become at the end of the journey. The MC is a narcissistic imposter, an ultra-conformist consumer, and a cold rational serial killer. Incapable of empathy, fascinated by violence, obsessed with symbols of success, materialistic to the core and profoundly unhappy. But is it possible to break free from the nuclear chain reaction of simulacrums? A radical answer is given at the ending, an outstanding "chute".
"If cinema is sometimes dreamlike, then every edit is an awakening." 无剪辑如同看戏如同亲临看画时才入戏(the return of the prodigal son! danae!) 越到后来穿越戏就越美卡捷琳娜雪地里、尼古拉二世家人、最后舞会散场三段满满的是nostalgia with a sense of historical inevitability.