Movie: American Psycho

Interpretation:
This film is all about the yuppie culture of the 80's. Bateman is suave, charming, and seems to have it all, yet is completely insane and no one would ever notice because everyone is so self-obsessed. People in the film constantly call each other by the wrong name, just emphasizing how alike all the yuppie men are; they can't even tell their own apart.

I feel the basis of the film (80's yuppie culture) is fairly obvious, so I'll give my interpretation of the ending. Many think the murders did not actually happen, and I disagree. So what about the apartment at the end? Well, again, this directly parallels the meaning of the film. They found the gorefest that was Paul's apartment, cleaned it up, and attempted to sell it in an effort to not cause property value to go down for possibly the whole building. This explains why the realtor was so rude to Bateman, she didn't know who he was but probably assumed he had SOMETHING to do with the bodies so just wanted him out before he ruined her sale. Remember the moral of the story, these people only care about themselves.

Another point brought up to dispute the murders actually happening is the man saying he recently saw Paul in Europe. This is simply explained throughout the film when men call each other by the wrong names. Bateman even posed as Paul for an entire night, it is extremely plausible that the man was mistaken and even further shows how quickly these people are to miss that a colleague was murdered because of how self-involved they are.

Obviously, interpret how you'd like, this is just my take on things.

Rating: 4.5 with 28 votes.