American psycho is wickedly funny,thrilling and hilariously shocking movie which doesn't prove or point anything substantial or thought provoking but still entertain you,one of the most controversial movie based on equally controversial novel with the same name.
We all have a evil part of us,a beast inside.Now,it depends upon us how much of it we have.The measure of our success as a human or as asociety can be measured by how we control it.Either we unleash it or we can try to suppress it.this story is about a bank executive who has an alter personality of Patrick batman by which he fantasizes himself being a serial killer.it is very clearly shown in the movie that heis frustrated with the society and the peoples with he live but the reasons for him being so frustrated and annoyed doesn't seemed to be reasonable to me. Yes, he was very highly obsessed with perfection and wanted everything according to him.This is why,he get angry easily but i can say that the feelings aroused in him was innate or inborn in him and it was just his state of mind which make him crazy for blood and violence.
So what was the idea behind the movie?what movie tried to show us? in fact the movie was intended to be a satire about rising frustration and anger among peoples against materialistic society, against the profit oriented ,consumerist world which is full of careerists, hypocrites and liars.but movie failed to made any point because script fall flatly to bring the message in front of us.the result we obtained was of A-grade slasher movie full of comedy and violence,have brilliant performance from Christian bale and a overall good direction from Mary Harron.
the only drawback of this movie is its script.the movie obviously is entertaining.It is funny at one moment and suddenly movie will horrify you and have very witty dialogues.but the movie did not provide completely what you wanted from it and that is the message.they did not provide any valid justification for his actions which makes us dis- connected and distant to the character of Patrick.we felt entertained but untouched.both a clockwork orange and fight club clearly gave reason for anti-hero being highly disturbed and his inclination towards violence but this movie fail short of it. also,the ending was satisfying and disappointing both.we can have our own opinion on that if he really killed them or not,but i think it was only his imagination.it was relieving for me to know that he was not a serial killer but it was also clear that at the end he was not at the better condition too.As he said he is in a constant pain and wanted his pain to be inflicted on other i felt sad for him by realising that the rage and anger inside him will become more and more and it is possible that he will kill someone one day.
Overall the movie was very well directed by Mary Harron.It was really surprising for me that a woman directed such a bold and unusual movie. She handled the project cleverly and provided us the feel we never had from watching from any other movie.everything was perfect-the atmosphere ,the pace,the performances form every single cast, the soundtrack, everything was at the right place.unfortunately she did not get the good support of script, otherwise movie should have been perfect.
But the real highlight of the movie was thundering performance of Christian Bale.i always thought of bale as mediocre actor who cannot bring challenging performances but he proved me wrong.he totally got inside the personality of Patrick batman,his body-language,dialogue delivery ,expressions were mind-blowing.He forced me to laugh at the moments where i should feel disgust.His highly unstable and eccentric portrayal of unsympathetic anti-hero is the performance worthy to be praise and remembered.
We all have a evil part of us,a beast inside.Now,it depends upon us how much of it we have.The measure of our success as a human or as asociety can be measured by how we control it.Either we unleash it or we can try to suppress it.this story is about a bank executive who has an alter personality of Patrick batman by which he fantasizes himself being a serial killer.it is very clearly shown in the movie that heis frustrated with the society and the peoples with he live but the reasons for him being so frustrated and annoyed doesn't seemed to be reasonable to me. Yes, he was very highly obsessed with perfection and wanted everything according to him.This is why,he get angry easily but i can say that the feelings aroused in him was innate or inborn in him and it was just his state of mind which make him crazy for blood and violence.
So what was the idea behind the movie?what movie tried to show us? in fact the movie was intended to be a satire about rising frustration and anger among peoples against materialistic society, against the profit oriented ,consumerist world which is full of careerists, hypocrites and liars.but movie failed to made any point because script fall flatly to bring the message in front of us.the result we obtained was of A-grade slasher movie full of comedy and violence,have brilliant performance from Christian bale and a overall good direction from Mary Harron.
the only drawback of this movie is its script.the movie obviously is entertaining.It is funny at one moment and suddenly movie will horrify you and have very witty dialogues.but the movie did not provide completely what you wanted from it and that is the message.they did not provide any valid justification for his actions which makes us dis- connected and distant to the character of Patrick.we felt entertained but untouched.both a clockwork orange and fight club clearly gave reason for anti-hero being highly disturbed and his inclination towards violence but this movie fail short of it. also,the ending was satisfying and disappointing both.we can have our own opinion on that if he really killed them or not,but i think it was only his imagination.it was relieving for me to know that he was not a serial killer but it was also clear that at the end he was not at the better condition too.As he said he is in a constant pain and wanted his pain to be inflicted on other i felt sad for him by realising that the rage and anger inside him will become more and more and it is possible that he will kill someone one day.
Overall the movie was very well directed by Mary Harron.It was really surprising for me that a woman directed such a bold and unusual movie. She handled the project cleverly and provided us the feel we never had from watching from any other movie.everything was perfect-the atmosphere ,the pace,the performances form every single cast, the soundtrack, everything was at the right place.unfortunately she did not get the good support of script, otherwise movie should have been perfect.
But the real highlight of the movie was thundering performance of Christian Bale.i always thought of bale as mediocre actor who cannot bring challenging performances but he proved me wrong.he totally got inside the personality of Patrick batman,his body-language,dialogue delivery ,expressions were mind-blowing.He forced me to laugh at the moments where i should feel disgust.His highly unstable and eccentric portrayal of unsympathetic anti-hero is the performance worthy to be praise and remembered.