Observing another side of potential behavior coming from the affluent American society of consumerism is explained through C. Several of his books have been successfully adapted to the big screen: Less Than Zero (1987), directed by Marek Kanievska and starring Robert Downey Jr. After killing Paul Owen, one of his colleagues, Bateman appropriates Paul's apartment as a place to host and kill more victims. The novel’s endless parade of explicit, stomach-churning, pornographic, boundary-pushing violence against animals, homeless people, and young women makes it a struggle to finish, especially for delicate souls like myself.

In the opening scene of American Psycho, this phrase appears as graffiti scrawled along the side of a bank. The Los Angeles Times 's review [16]—"the one good review in the national press", he said—resulted in "a three-page letter section of all these people canceling their subscriptions". And yet, even after almost 36 hours have ticked by, the only word that keeps bubbling up to the surface of my consciousness is.You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point. There are telling, novelistic details that succinctly and indelibly capture the world and people they’re describing. He lives in a chic apartment on the Upper West Side, where he likes to listen to music and watch movies. A multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.

Bateman's character and traits, according to Heise, challenge what readers understand as the social norms for the way the elite upper class think and react to society on a normal basis. One is Tom Cruise, who lives in the penthouse of his building and who he fumblingly compliments for his performance in Bartender (which Bateman mistakes as the title for Cocktail). Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? In addition to having some serious fun with the out of control consumerism of the 80’s, Ellis slowly begins to reveal to us the fact that Patrick (and I might add all of the people he associates with) have no empathy or compassion for anyone but themselves. Sean Bateman – younger brother of Patrick Bateman and also the lead character of The Rules of Attraction.Now, I've read a lot of horror and seen my share of movie gore and while I don't enjoy “slasher” movies (or torture porn novels) I certainly have been able to deal with some very brutal images and scenes in the context of a what I read and watch. His books echo one another, with Ellis often using recurring characters and settings which often make ‘cameo’ appearances, and his comments on society and the arts have led him to become one of the most controversial figures in modern culture. One supposes that the last freethinking men of ancient Sumer, lamenting that cuneiform had ruined their political discourse, must have longed for the good old days of throwing rocks at each other’s heads. Bateman has also been co-opted by misogynists and trolls, who have failed to see him as a parody of themselves and all they stand for, something which comes back as criticism levelled at the infamous book and its author.