Everyone,
This post is probably going to be one of my favorite posts of all time. American Psycho (2000) is the adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Bret Easton Ellis. The movie was authentically as well as appropriately directed by two women directors Ms. Turner and Ms. Harron.
Let's skip the facts about the movie and focus on the utmost controversial part of the movie itself: the ending.
So, let me see. Patrick Bateman, a Harvard graduate who appears to be a successful businessman who could not define himself and always sees himself struggling to fit in with the world of which he chooses to be apart, ends up realizing that killing people is probably the only thing that makes him different from the people he works with. Through out the movie we observe that Bateman murders more than 20 people, some of them are prostitutes and mostly are people who have no emotional relationship with him. We also see that Bateman takes pleasure in killing these people since his lifestyle is ironically tasteless. However, the ending of the movie leaves the audience questioning if Patrick Bateman actually commits all the murders or it's just a psychological process inside Patrick's mind.
The following clip is, in my opinion, the best scene in the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwicLgOGJOI
The ending opens up two distinctive interpretations. The first one is Patrick Bateman plans all of the murders in his head, but is too much of a coward to actually commit them. The second one is he carries out all the killings, but when he confesses, his lawyer refuses to believe him and that leaves his confession meaningless.
So, which one do you find more plausible?
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