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title-Why Men Love American Psycho |
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american psycho is a warning more than |
20 years after its release and american |
psycho continues to maintain its |
cultural grip when i look at youtube |
profiles twitter handles and instagram |
profiles i'm often met with the site of |
patrick bateman when i go online i see |
american psycho memes continuing to spread |
like wildfire |
[Music] |
this is because american psycho is one |
of the only films that expertly taps |
into the psyche of men it's a film that |
leaves you questioning your sense of |
reality it's a film that shows us the |
consequences of masking our personality |
our opinions and true self it shows us |
the hollowness of our atomized cities |
and soul-crushing workspaces and most |
importantly it shows us the absurdity of |
the post-modern era where everyone |
dresses the same talks the same has the |
same opinions as the same plastic masks |
covering their shriveled core |
the movie begins in a high-end |
restaurant where the waiters sound |
exactly the same rabbit with herb french |
fries our pasta tonight is a split rare |
roasted partridge rest in raspberry |
cooling with a sorrel the movie then |
cuts to a table with patrick bateman and |
his wall street associates where they |
engage in a superficial conversation |
the chicks restaurant why aren't we |
doors yet each of these yuppies are |
trapped inside of their bubble now this |
might not seem important but this sets |
the scene for the whole film the key |
theme in this film is that no one |
actually knows each other they don't see |
each other they all put up their masks |
and see each other's facades but i'll |
talk more on that later in the next |
scene they all go off to a nightclub |
where patrick bateman goes to the bar to |
order a drink there patrick bateman has |
met with an aggressive bar lady and this |
is where we see bateman's inner thoughts |
come to the surface |
and play around with your blood |
but her non-responsive attitude makes it |
seem as though this is all within side |
patrick's head this scene gives us an |
excellent look about what this movie is |
all about it's a movie about personas |
and the shadow self a trope that has |
been played on throughout history |
through the biblical stories of angels |
and demons to the yin and the yang these |
are all metaphors that are key to |
understanding our own psychological and |
societal development the pathway |
to |
completion as a human being is through the |
is through the um |
embodiment of the monster |
embodiment of the monster that's the |
discovery of the shadow it's the theme |
of personas which this whole film is |
about the persona is the mask you wear |
in public that you think you are but |
you're not the persona contains all the |
things that modern culture says is good |
and the shadow itself contains |
everything that's not part of that a |
path to a greater character to a more |
effectual approach to life lies in |
integrating those elements of our psyche |
that for too long have been repressed |
and denied and as we see throughout the |
film the bifurcation between patrick's |
shadow self and his public persona |
becomes increasingly problematic |
the film then cuts the infamous scene of |
bateman's morning beautification routine |
with all his layers of conditioners gels |
exfoliators and ice packs the film makes |
a key point in showing the plasticness |
and the absurdity of the efforts we go |
to for crafting our polish public |
persona because we go to all of this |
effort to hide our authentic self |
there is an idea of a patrick bateman |
some kind of abstraction |
but there is no real me |
only an entity something illusory and |
this is seen everywhere within the film |
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