Analysis Of The Movie ' American Psycho '

by Jacob

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Posted on 23-12-2020 08:55 PM

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Powered by justwatch it's just as well a woman directed ". " she's transformed a novel about blood lust into a movie about men's vanity. A male director might have thought patrick bateman, the hero of "american psycho," was a serial killer because of psychological twists, but mary harron sees him as a guy who's prey to the usual male drives and compulsions. He just acts out a little more.

Hence, in this essay i will first define what multiple personality disorder is followed by an analysis of the character patrick bateman from american psycho through the way he views himself, other’s perspective of him and the way he views others. Subsequently, this essay will then analyze the factors which bring ashley patterson from tell me your dreams to losing her identity. Thus i argue that both the characters’ multiple personality disorder (mpd) is what leads them to the loss of identity. Critic collin a. Ross notes how mpd disrupts an individual’s identity. According to ross, mpd also known as dissociative identity disorder (did) is a condition that is likely to occur when two or more distinct personalities exist in one body and alternately take control over an individual (ross 18). Multiple personality may arise if an individual has experienced a traumatic event or is unable to control his/her behavior at times. This individual lacks the ability to recall important information usually far greater than the normal degree of forgetfulness. Having mpd is a way to lose one’s identity. As the initial personality may be more passive within a person, the person is unable to identify his/her true self. According to paul f. Dell’s a new model of dissociative identity disorder, a person with did can switch from one personality to another where each personality has its own identity; and the primary personality is in an amnesia state during the activities of the other personalities (dell 3).

Christian bale plays the title role in american psycho, which takes an artsy, politically correct attitude toward the perennial slasher movie. Patrick bateman, the title character, is a cold, competitive wall street executive in the mid-1980s who, throughout most of the movie, goes on a homicidal spree of murder, sadomasochism and cannibalism. At the end, however, the movie contends that the disturbed young man was simply having homicidal fantasies. In a crucial scene, his secretary finds his appointment book filled with graphic drawings depicting all the murderous, sick things that the rest of the movie directly or indirectly shows him doing.

American psycho is a movie adaptation directed by marry harron released in the year 2000 that was based off of the 1991 novel of the same name authored by bret easton ellis. The movie focuses on the main character patrick bateman who is an investment banker in new york in the era of the early 1980’s. Patrick is a perfectionist whose life by day seemingly rotates between his picture-perfect job, his superficial relationship with his fiancée evelyn, and his shallow interaction with his co-workers and peers. By night, patrick is a textbook psychopath and a serial killer.

When it comes to watching christian bale movies, one thing is for certain: either you love them or you hate them. The man takes on challenging and polarizing roles, and plays them beautifully. But you're always left wondering either why you loved the movie so much, why you hated it so much, or what on earth possessed bale to take on such an insane role. The quintessential dark and polarizing christian bale movie has to be american psycho mug american psycho fan coffee mug mug american psycho fan , which is celebrating its 15-year anniversary and has some of the best quotes from a movie in the last decade.

Alfred hitchcock, the fabled “master of suspense,” called psycho a prank. In fact, it was revolutionary. The film shocked audiences with its infamous 45-second “shower scene,” a heart-stopping sequence after which nothing would ever look the same. Premiered on june 16, 1960, psycho broke taboos and cinematic convention. Hitchcock was coming off of north by northwest, a romantic thriller with marquee idols cary grant and eva marie saint, shot in the widescreen vistavision format and marked by its astonishing action sequences. His follow-up was a black-and-white horror film in which he kills off the apparent lead character—janet leigh’s marion crane—not long into the film. Worse, she gets stabbed to death while taking a shower in the creepy bates motel, managed by norman bates, played by anthony perkins, whose performance as a cross-dressing, mother-obsessed, split-personality maniac would shadow every big-screen serial killer to come.

One change hitchcock made when adapting robert bloch's novel psycho into a movie was to make norman bates more sympathetic and appealing. Hitchcock cast young up-and-comer anthony perkins in the role, then known for playing wholesome, likeable characters. Perkins imbued norman with a warmth and shyness that made audiences at the time never suspect him as the killer. Of course, while norman's unstable "mother" is presented as the murderer, it's revealed near the end that norman is himself the killer, and the one who hacked up marion crane (janet leigh) in the shower during psycho's most famous scene, as well as sent a wounded detective arbogast down the stairs. Well, norman killed them physically anyway, mentally is a completely different story.

Bloch's latest horror story is a disappointing effort, despite his attempt to exploit the character of norman bates of psycho fame. Having decided to write a book about bates, amy haines travels to fairvale for material. She arrives in the wake of a young girl's knife-murder at the "psycho house," a tourist trap re-creation of both the infamous bates motel and "mother's house. " the murder serendipitously provides an angle for amy, who has been casting about for a theme for her book. Enlisting the help of a demonologist, a newspaper publisher and a psychiatrist, amy starts snooping around the once-sleepy community. Predictably, the townsfolk, including the sheriff, do not appreciate the intrusion. After several other victims are attacked with a knife and the tires of amy's car are slashed, she is convinced that the murderer is closing in on her. But amy's sleuthing has no real focus beyond her determination to find the killer, so we simply follow her around and wait for something to happen. Though bloch provides all the elements of a horror story, they fail to coalesce into a truly frightening yarn.

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