Can someone explain the end of the film you had all the drawings in the sketch book did that mean he dreamt it, another guy said he had dinner with one of the characters that was murdered. It was all imaginery in the end or was it some sort of cover up?
2006-10-05 00:27:24 · 12 answers · asked by jojo 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The film is not just about the character Patrick Bateman, the psycho. It's also a mockery of the whole 80's Wall Street scene.
If you notice, pretty much everyone in his office looks and acts exactly the same. They are all white guys with brown hair, glasses, suits; they even have the same business card, although they brag about the differences.
They're so much alike that nobody knows who anyone else is. Paul Allen always confused Patrick Bateman with Marcus Halberstrand. Then Bateman's own lawyer calls him "Davis."
What it is saying is that they are all so caught up in their own greed and narcissism that he can literally get away with murder and nobody notices.
2006-10-05 04:35:19 · answer #1 · answered by jugghayd 4 · 11⤊ 0⤋
I think it's designed to make you think what goes on in peoples minds, and that even though you are a high flying business man, it doesn't stop you, like many others from fantasising about killing your colleagues or other people. It's human nature to want to act out of the ordinary, and the most explicit form of this is murder. Bale's character was simply expressing his rage at the world he saw arround him in the form of graphic violence, inflicted on others. The notepad documents all the films events, and it's only through the eyes of his secretary that we see this is his fantasy, not reality as it had been portrayed.
2006-10-05 00:39:52 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel H 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sorry I can't answer. I watched a few minutes of that movie but when it got to the part where he was really angry that the dry cleaners would not wash the bloody sheets he brought in, that did it for me.
Update. I looked the movie up on the internet and it was not imaginery. See the following report on the book--
This story is a first-person narrative describing a part of the life of Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street executive who is also insane, and a serial rapist and murderer. The story has no real plot, it follows no coherent time line. It's just a series of events in Bateman's life, told from his point of view. It is probably the most graphic book, sexually and violently, that I've ever read.
2006-10-05 00:30:53 · answer #3 · answered by phoenixheat 6 · 1⤊ 6⤋
In the film I think he is meant to have just imagined it all. My concentration was rather taken by how gorgeous Christian Bale is - especially those shower scenes - phew! Maybe I'll give the book a go, although it sounds intense!
2006-10-05 00:38:44 · answer #4 · answered by peggy*moo 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
In the film it is all imaginary, but in the book the ending is completly different......read the book!!!!!
2006-10-05 00:36:35 · answer #5 · answered by gla tkt 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The movie shows that he dreamed up all the killings, but in the book he does it for real! I dont think the American public could handle the true version!
2006-10-05 00:32:44 · answer #6 · answered by larry365 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Larry was spot on with his answer.
In the book you are left with no doubt that he was the killer but the film has the twists at the end to make you think it was all in his imagination.
2006-10-05 02:22:57 · answer #7 · answered by Dadams 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
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2017-02-19 15:56:19 · answer #8 · answered by rogers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe in showing that he only dreamed it, it actually shows a much darker conclusion. That all humans are capable of cruelty, this being just an extreme.
2006-10-05 00:40:17 · answer #9 · answered by Mark C 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think the point was that he was a psycho, but he never murdered anyone, he just fantasised about doing it.
2006-10-05 03:02:14 · answer #10 · answered by homeandawayrules 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋