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American Psycho: Bateman&#;s repressed homosexuality
No, The only reason that Patrick does not verb Luis when is has the chance is because Luis shows affection towards him. Patrick views the people around him – and the world in general – as loveless, and he’s sort of right; there seems to be no real cherish between his friends or their love interests. Patrick wants to &#;fit in&#;, but he doesn’t really want to. He views himself as better than his ‘friends’, and therefore has no issue in killing and, perhaps, ‘cleansing’ the world, but that’s a long shot.
However, he does not kill Luis, Evelyn or Jean because they all, in one way or another, state affection for him. He is conflicted, as although previously he felt that there was no cherish around him, he has now been confronted with that fact and does not know how to react.
In the &#;Confronted by Faggot&#; chapter, Patrick is frightened. He has, inadvertently, led on a homosexual male in whom he, Patrick, has no sexual interest. He tries to distract himself, and he wants to let everyone in the direct vicinity know that he is not ‘
(note: though I include no part of the explicit violent and sexual sections of the book, some of the quotes from the book do contain language that will be very offensive to some)
A two decade old novel might seem appropriate now, of haves in glass towers and have nots protesting in the streets, a book which is supposedly either a literal story of an investment banker who is a serial killer, or an investment banker who only imagines that he kills a series of men and women, his murder spree a &#;metaphor&#; for his profession&#;s indifference to larger society and the damage he does to it. Curious about whether this book would shed light on the turmoil now, I found a third theme &#; the book is a cryptomorph, its subject neither mass murder, or a metaphor for the financial world, but about being gay and closeted during the first years of the AIDS outbreak. This is not a case of a symbolic undercurrent; almost all the male characters, including Patrick Bateman and Timothy Price are gay closeted men, with that aspect of their lives, off-stage and unspoken directly of, but most certai
“American Psycho” director Mary Harron says she finds it bizarre to witness “Wall Street bros” idolizing Christian Bale’s character Patrick Bateman, considering the film is “very clearly” poking entertaining at them.
While marking the 25th anniversary of the satirical slasher in a conversation with Letterboxd Journal, Harron said she’s questioned whether she “failed” in her making the film after seeing men openly praise Bateman, a cocky New York investment banker by day and serial killer by blackout, on social media.
“I’m always so mystified by it,” Harron explained. “I don’t think that [co-writer Guinevere Turner] and I ever expected it to be embraced by Wall Street bros, at all. That was not our intention. So, did we fail?”
She continued, “I’m not sure why [it happened], because Christian’s very clearly making fun of them.”
The Canadian film director also finds it ironic that Bateman is so beloved by “sigma males” on the internet. The film is an adaptation of the satirical novel of the same specify by Bret Easton Ellis, which the filmmakers saw as “a gay man’s satire.”
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‘American Psycho’ director says she’s ‘mystified’ by Wall Street bros obsessed with Christian Bale’s serial killer hero, saying they don’t comprehend the movie is a ‘gay man’s satire on masculinity’
Director Mary Harron, however, says she is “mystified” by the “Wall Street bros” who idolize Bateman, adding they have missed the point of the film.
Bateman might wear good suits and contain money and power, but he is, at his core, a fool, she said—and the film itself is “a gay man’s satire on masculinity,” she told Letterboxd Journal in an interview marking the film’s silver anniversary.
American Psycho was based on a book by author Bret Easton Ellis. Harron said “[Ellis] being gay allowed him to view the homoerotic rituals among these alpha males, which is also true in sports, and it’s correct in Wall Street, and all these things where men are prizing their extreme competition and their ‘elevating their prowess’ caring of thing. There’s something very, very gay about the way they’re fetishizing looks and the gym.”
(The book turned movie went on to be a Broadway musical.)
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