Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
Every now and then, I get met with gasps and outraged expressions when I admit that I have never seen a particular movie deemed a classic. “But you’re the movie buff!” my friends and family exclaim, “How have you never seen that movie?!” These periodic reminders of what a terrible cinephile I am jolt me into action, and I skulk away in shame to see what I have been missing out on. This was recently the case with American Psycho.
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The one real presence in Bateman’s life is music. You can’t even really call it his joy, or his vice, because to him, music is more of an intellectual puzzle, one that the listener shouldn’t just kick back and enjoy the sounds of, but ponder, question, and understand the context and background of. He frequently plays various albums of the era, from Huey Lewis to Phil Collins, while lecturing people about the deeper meaning of it all.
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