On the surface, Patrick Bateman did kill people. On the inside he is in pain and succumbs to a series of delusions. It is only he, who isn't sure of what's real and what isn't. You the viewer should know this. He killed the homeless guy and the prostitutes. What appears real in the film is real. What appears fake is fake. The film was really ambiguous, and has a lot of people thinking everything is a dream. The only person Patrick didn't kill with absolute certainty is Paul Allen.
It really wouldn't kill you to take a break from your precious capeshit, actress worship, blacked, and have sex threads.
I always assumed he did kill Paul Allan but the final scene where he massacres a bunch of people was his psychosis, judging from the scene where his gun causes an explosion and he looks at it incredulously. Wasn’t his lawyer in disbelief because he had dinner with a Paul Allan lookalike the week prior or something?
Dubs.
Easton Roberts
You'll check these dubs
Dominic Thomas
this is the correct view. everything was 'real' except that final massacre spree where things spiral completely out of control. the rest happened, but nobody has any desire to inquire about it except for the green goblin
I think all of it was real, why not? the point of it was that he had manipulated his perception in some way as in an act of magic hence why he got away with it all and was absolutely never seen to be anything other than a high powering wall street guy you change yourself and the whole world changes
Noah Scott
The ending shot makes me think that it was all real and what the landlady and lawyer tells him disturbs him as he realizes that killing him makes him no different than anyone else. In their own way they are just as brutal as him. He’s just one of the many American Psychos.
Connor James
imagine not getting fucking blatant satire
next you are going to tell us that the parrot sketch is real
Ethan Hernandez
No it was all real, even the feed me a cat message. He is just so rich and well connected that when he fucks up it all gets covered up and taken care of.
Hunter Sanchez
What sorta group of people would cover up such heinous crimes?
Bentley Adams
Things Yea Forums can't talk about:
Simpsons Batman American psycho Quinten Black actors
>What am I forgetting? First hand experiences about love, romance, and sex.
Jordan Carter
Not to get too off topic, but I never did find out how Bateman became associated with dubs. Like, I know it had to do with him pointing to the post number, but who came up with the idea of repeating digits holding such importance?
>but who came up with the idea of repeating digits holding such importance? i did
Jeremiah Clark
has anything that originated on s4s ever made any logical sense?
Hudson Perry
K
Charles Carter
coming right up
Jonathan Ramirez
He did most of the killings but not always in the way they were depicted, for instance the scene with the chainsaw. And the team behind the film said themselves that they fucked it up and made it to look too much like it’s in his imagination. The whole idea of ‘did he do it or not’’ and the fact that is doesn’t matter and nobody cares is the whole point.
Like corporations do bad shit but there’s nobody accountable because it’s just a faceless entity that works hard to create a face for the consumers to actually see it.
Logan Martin
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Dominic James
i doubt s4s was around back then
Julian Martin
From the one snapshot of him pointing where the digits would be. Maybe there was more batemanposting before, but from that, batemanposting began to revolve around dubs. But batemanposting is much deeper and dynamic than only dubs.
Besides the movie was quite different than the book which was more a commentary on the yuppie culture and far more ambiguous. The film made some great additions to the material but because age ratings n shit didn’t show the best scenes. Like walking around the house with head on his dick while ranting about whitney houston’s career or stabbing a kid in a zoo and volunteering to help when the mother finds the kid bleeding behind a dumpster.
Carter Morales
Of course
Dominic Clark
sure thing boss
Nicholas Sanchez
It literally does not matter if he killed people or not, that's the point. He can do anything and nobody will care. It doesn't make a difference to the plot if he has delusions or not although he clearly has.
