The story of the 2000 film (directed by Mary Harron and starring Christian Bale) is a dark, satirical look at the vacuous nature of 1980s yuppie culture. The Man Behind the Mask
The film concludes with Bateman realizing that his "confession has meant nothing". In a world where everyone is so self-absorbed and interchangeable, his acts of violence are either ignored or perhaps entirely imagined, leaving him trapped in a "meaningless" existence where he simply "is not there". How Mary Harron made American Psycho American_Psycho_HD_2000_
Beneath this "polished facade" lies a deeply disturbed psychopath. Bateman suffers from what analysis identifies as narcissism, emotional detachment, and a total lack of remorse. The story of the 2000 film (directed by