This is one videotape we don’t want to return.
American Psycho’s ending leaves a lot to the viewer’s imagination. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a New York City yuppie that moonlights as a serial killer, but did he actually kill people? How much of the movie takes place in his unhinged mind?
Based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel of the same name, American Psycho‘s director Mary Harron says this cult classic is not easy to decipher on the first watch and has a complicated legacy. Upon its release, it was derided by many critics as being misogynistic, while other critics went in the opposite direction and claimed that the movie was sexist towards men.
Similar to the novel, the ending is infamously ambiguous, leaving us to wonder what actually happened throughout the movie. The ending of the film has been a source of debate amongst fans for a long time, but it’s an argument that we are ready to settle.
So, what happened in American Psycho? Let’s get into it.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
