He never white manages to return his video tapes on time. That’s quite selfish of him, I can’t lie.
I bet he didn’t even rewind them.
He also couldn’t be more fucking wrong about Genesis. It’s probably the most heinous thing about him tbh.
This thread is really alarming if you’re like me and got Patrick Bateman confused with Jason Bateman
Don’t be like Patrick Bateman. Or Rorschach. Or Homelander. Or Tyler Durden. Or The Joker.
Be like William Riker.
The likes of Patrick Bateman and Tyler Durden are “cool” because they represent the pent up frustration of many men to fit in. Are their violent actions justified though? No.
I know the most likely answer is just that they’ve never seen the movie at full, but I truly don’t get what people see in Bateman. Man’s pathetic. He has a mental breakdown because of presentation cards, kills a random man and his dog because he was made to look bad in front of his circle and couldn’t retort back, his monologues read like an edgy 13 year old trying to sound cool and badass, he solely puts sex and violence on TV and barely looks at it even, spends all day playing around in his office instead of working and constantly speaks in an incredibly obvious fake pretentious voice.
Even in his killer side, he constantly trips over himself and panics every time the detective questions him, he craves approval even from his victims and much much more.
He’s so lame its funny how so many people see him as this weird superior sigma chad when he’s anything but.
People either identify with the irritations Bateman has, or like the movie for its commentary on society and therefore choose Bateman as a symbol of the entire movie.
For the first group, some really want to be able to say “fuck off” more often but aren’t able to because of society. They feel like they’re close to snapping and seeing someone else act out their shameful desires brings them a lot of enjoyment.
For the second group, they are mostly ironically (sometimes post-ironically) fanboying Bateman. They might think that by drawing attention to the ridiculousness of him getting away with his actions, they are providing commentary on the state of society. In a sense, they’d be calling Christian Bale’s acting “based” because of how realistic it is.
IIRC he’s supposed to be a satire of stockbrokers from the 80’s.
I feel like many people simply struggle with media literacy. As in, reading between the lines. They see the surface level cool guy and leave it at that, no further analysis.
