The controversial film... it wasn't bad, it wasn't good.
Didn't like the voiceover. Patrick Bateman is this cold human being with hardly any emotion, "except greed and jealousy". Why tell us, the reader, who he is, what he is? We are not to associate with him. We are supposed not to understand him. Show, don't tell. It will be different to show that he has almost no emotion, but coldly telling us... no.
And why the love for music? Didn't he say he had no emotions whatsoever? How to appreciate music without positive emotions? Then again, this could be explained as his way of "being part of humankind, being indistinguisable".
In stories like these, you have to accept certain facts, or stop reading / watching. In this case, the main character has no (positive) emotions. The origins are not explained, but sure, I can go along with that. What makes it unbelievable, is the clear fact that he becomes crazy; mixing up names, reading "feed me a stray cat" on an ATM. So it turns out he is not a very strange human being, he is simply mad as a hatter.
The point is that there is no point. Die yuppy scum. I don't buy it.
But the scene with the calling cards is still pretty good.
