Patrick Bateman In American Psycho

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For this psychological disorder analysis paper, I picked the movie American Psycho. American psycho is a 2000 American Canadian black comedy psychological thriller horror film directed by Mary Harron. The movie was based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel with the same name. The movie was stars by Christian Bale playing the main character and the movie’s narrator, Patrick Bateman. The movie was set in New York City in the years of 1980s. The main character, Patrick Bateman is a investment banker. The movie starts with Patrick doing his everyday activities like hanging out with his friends and co-workers, going to clubs, working, and his daily morning routines. Then his insanity starts, he starts killing people. The first killing was on one of his colleague at his company named Paul Allen. He then takes over Paul Allen’s apartment and use it to conduct a series of illegal outrageous behaviors such as rape, torture, cannibalism, and mutilation necrophilia.

The progression of Patrick Bateman’s mental dysfunction and the unreliability of the main characters perspective, hit its peak at the end of the film. Surreal scenes of confusion and dialogue began to cloud the interactions that Bateman had with those around him. A growing sense of urgency in his demeanor countered by the cold glare of the other characters gave a perfect bridge to the theme of the novel. Now that we see Bateman shocked that his sick acts have gone with out consequence, the audience begins to question whether or not his horrid acts are only mere imagination. The end of the book, and most of the novel, give readers the assumption that these acts must be too extreme to have actually happened. The conclusion of the film lets the wall reliability crash down with the realization that you may have just glimpsed into the mind of the main character. Just like in the book, audiences grasp that Bateman may just simply be more psychotic than first perceived. The unraveling of his sophistication being the first sign brings question to the events that occurred and further notions of insanity. Although much of the story may have been in the mind of Patrick Bateman, the ideas and fantasies that were birthed their and why they came about, are the root of what both Bret Easton Ellis and Mary Harron are trying to being to question. Was it instilled in a man to have

The movie ‘The Sixth Sense’ fits in the category of fantastic because it creates a hesitation between the reality and the supernatural. At first, Dr. Malcom Crowe looks more credible than Cole Sear because of the working-class status of Malcom which makes him more reliable as a narrator. Cole can see ghost, but maybe what he sees is an illusion because of the fact that his dad committed suicide. In other words, he may be mentally unstable because of this trauma which makes him less credible. In end of the movie, Malcom Crowe realised that he was dead the whole time through subtle evidences. A viewer could have overlooked the subtle evidences that the director has put and has already established that Dr.

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, is a story of a yuppie in New York City, by day an elitist working on wall street and by night a sexual sadist. Patrick Bateman is an intriguing character as he catalogs the entirety of his morning routine and a colleagues entire outfit, where at first this is tedious to read, it then becomes concerning as the reader begins to wonder about the mental state of the narrator. Even after being over a hundred pages into the novel and no one is murdered we still get a glimpse into the disturbing mind of Patrick Bateman as he slips in a comment about murder as causal as a comment about the weather or his favorite band. It’s almost as disturbing that his peers don't pick up on his references to murder, mocking

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 Bret Easton Ellis published his third novel, American Psycho, he was extremely criticized for the graphic content of the book. It was violent, obscene and gory. It was later banned in some places, attacked by the liberal journals and he received various death threats. As a young and smart writer he decided not to speak out about the real reasons why he wrote the novel. He was not even able to read it again until the summer of 2001. After some time, his book that was commonly misread was eventually understood and acknowledged by the public. When the adaptation of the movie, which was directed by a woman, came out it helped to clarify the meaning of the book, showing that this novel was more than just another superficial bestseller,

Fifty years ago, a person breaking the law would either be called crazy or a criminal. Today, the mental health community has much more specific diagnoses. However, the explanation of certain behaviors may be difficult because there is much overlap among mental conditions. In Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho, the protagonist, Patrick Bateman, is apparently simply a psychopath. However, Bateman can be diagnosed with other mental illnesses such as Asperger’s syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, narcissism, and antisocial personality disorder. In both the book and film adaptation, Bateman’s actions can be understood more accurately when analyzed in light of modern psychology.

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American Psycho can be interpreted in two ways: either Bateman, due to his mental disorder, killed multiple people, or he was having hallucinations about his kills. If he truly committed murder the DSM-5 diagnosis for Patrick Bateman indicates that he is suffering from antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and borderline

Personality disorders are pervasive in nature, and are depicted in various mediums from film to novels. Narcissism will be discussed as it pertains to American Psycho; a film made in the early 2000’s to describe a man who lives a double life as a business man and serial killer. The main character in particular, Patrick Bateman displays with themes of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and his case along with the factors that are congruent with Narcissistic Personality Disorder will be discussed throughout.

(Adiga, 2008). In American Psycho, the viewer follows the daily life of Patrick Bateman, a young materialistic investment banker living in Manhattan in the late 1980s, in comparison with Balram of The White Tiger, Patrick Bateman of American Psycho has always been rich and the only thing that interest him, is himself, the viewer can notice many examples of his love for himself, one example would be his meticulously morning routine, every morning Bateman follows the same steps in preparation to his day, another prime example of his love for himself would be during a scene in the movie while he is fornicating with two women, his only interest is himself, he looks in the mirror and contemplates his body, all his actions are dictated by his will of being seen as the successful person that he thinks he is and does anything to keep his success at bay and to protect it from anything that could separate him from succeeding and gaining more power. Although very similar, the main characters of both novel and movie have subtle differences that