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Great, another mind fuck film. Why didn't I notice it on the list?
Christian Bale has a set of chiseled cheekbones that make me think cyborg, plus deeply set eyes that fixate you like a laser beam, and a wry/serious mouth depending on the situation. Materialistic, city class sub-zero perfection. Just right for the role.
I like how they exaggerate the quality of name cards, the font, thickness, print, paper. A whole being's decency and credentials lie in less than one gram, something so weighty a hand shakes and drops it. I remember reading someone's comment on 'conversation between two males', is like trying desperately to rape each other. To put in simple terms, talking each other down in an aggressive verbal game where hidden mayhem surges madly below a thin veil of vanity.
It's always good (in a clever way) to include recurring preludes/intermissions such as 'I've gotta return some video tapes', 'reservation at Dorsia' and endless soliloquy commentaries on hit albums. Obsession is perfect fodder for horror for any excessiveness is a manifestation of out of control behaviours that under classical settings, easily transcend into sins.
This movie is star studded! Every few minutes I'd recognize a familiar face and scream (silently inside my intestines) 'Isnt' that $%^?!'. There's Reese Witherspoon, Chloe Sevigny (Boys don't cry), Samantha Mathis (The thing called love), Josh Lucas (Sweet home Alabama) and Willem Dafoe (The English Patient). Sorry I'd have to call it a waste of talents since American Psycho is all about the Psycho, making it an unavoidable one man show.
I do like the clever execution and thought provoking take on a man's closeted personality or else this movie would turn into an hour long SM & torture you easily pull off the porn shelf.
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Watched 'Bend it like Beckham' as well.Stereotypical, cliche flick. All of that Indians! No way they're gonna leave out the weddings.
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