He's obsessed with social status like women, he has an obsessive interest in fashion brands like a woman, he takes intricate care to decorate his apartment instead of just having the classic TV, couch + playstation, he wastes time each morning with an elaborate skincare routine. He is utterly obsessed with social relations and the relative standing of some people relative to himself, barely seeing the person behind the titles and labels. That's all foid behavior.
His friends all sit around gossiping like women, they're polite and passive aggressive to each other's face but talk shit about each other like women. Patrick Bateman holds pathetic grudges over dumb shit, he feels envy at Paul Allen in a very feminine manner over getting a reservation at Dorsia (what guy actually cares about going to fancy restaurants?).
Take away the serial killing and swap his gender to female and you'll have the average foid in a corporate environment, and I mean that without an ounce of exaggeration.
Yet this guy is looked up to and fetishized by people as a sigma masculine icon?
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Never actually saw the movie. What's the deal? Is it actually good or just memeable?
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It's funny. Patrick Bateman is a violent psychopath social climber, except he's entirely indistinct from his coworkers. He's a yuppie loser. Schizoid delusion boiling over, you're not sure if anything he does is real.
During an investigation, for example, the scene is filmed 3 different ways and spliced together. Once where the detective (Dafoe) knew the truth, once where he didn't, once where he wasn't sure.
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It's okay. 'Soulless corporate man is actually soulless and psychopathic' never seemed that deep to me tho
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It's stupid
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