American Psycho

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Throughout American Psycho, I found myself wanting to get up and leave, because it was so graphically disturbing and degrading to women. Now that I have thought about it, maybe it was so disturbing because it was something I could relate to. What do I mean by this? The jealousy, the greed, and the lust - every human being experiences it at some point in their lifetime. At first, I thought that Bateman was just a purely sick and twisted individual, with an uncanny ability to succumb to these emotions so willingly, almost as if he had no self-control. Furthermore, why should a man so physically intriguing and pulsating with sexual energy such as himself feel the need to engage with prostitutes and other off-color sexual scenarios, while he has a fiance? Why does he yearn to kill so readily, as if he can't survive without the warm sticky human blood of his vi

ctim in his mouth or under his fingertips? Why does it all seem so realistic? Because it is - in his head, that is. None o!

In actually, maybe we all are American Psychos. We all experience greed and jealousy at some point, and maybe we all quietly have a little running game in our minds, picking off that person who cut us off on the Parkway, beheading that girl who stole your boyfriend, or slice-and-dicing the lunch lady who forgot to give you extra French fries. We have to deal with that, though. Whatever you do, don't get to the point where you can't decipher reality from fiction and you confess all of your secret rituals, like Bateman did. Not only did he look like a fool, he looked like a real jerk for admitting that he killed a friend of his who was really away on business. All in all, just keep the psychotic tendencies to yourself, please.

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