My life is a living hell,' I mention off the cuff, while casually moving leeks around on my plate, which by the way is a porcelain triangle.

On the one hand is a rich Wall Street banker, Bateman, concerned and very self-conscious about every detail of his physical appearance, expensive possessions, and control of the people and the world around him.Eyes are said to be the keyhole to the soul, and by taking these away it gives a chilling image of a lack of identity. now, i don't really wanna defend the book against these charges; more fun to wonder what those who view american psycho as woman-hating or anti-feminist make of the dozens (hundreds? He has gotten this impression, it seems, from some mean things that people said to him online in response to a few harmless tweets. Before we begin, here’s a warning: This Blink contains references to violence, pornography, and drug use.

It is a curious thing that makes one generation project onto the next everything it hates most about itself. American Psycho premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival where it was touted as the next Fight Club. The equally flat and detailed – and mostly unreadable – scenes of sadistic violence in the second half of the novel can only be intolerable fantasy: the imagined enactment of all the hatred he really feels for the "hardbodies" he ogles. As a promotion for the film, one could register to receive e-mails "from" Patrick Bateman, supposedly to his therapist.

In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness.

i do not believe that 'in dark times the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements. On the other hand, is the inner self of Patrick Bateman, the aboriginal-self, who copes and relinquishes his outer complications and "fake" identity, created by consumerism, through violence on other human beings, who he finds consumable, and expresses absolute control of his desires and true self through his violent fantasies. In the United States, the book was named the 53rd most banned and challenged book from 1990–1999 by the American Library Association. Elizabeth – a dinner date of Bateman's, drugged and coerced into having sex with "Christie" before being violently murdered. The story is told in the first-person by Patrick Bateman, a wealthy, narcissistic, vain Manhattan investment banker who supposedly lives a double life as a serial killer.

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