American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis/Mary Harron

I started writing this around 4 months ago around the time I finished the book, never finished the blog post but decided that I'll still share it anyways. This was mostly a diss on the grown ass men thinking they're apart of a wolf pack. As long as you have the understanding the book/movie isn't some propaganda machine for Batemans lifestyle, couldn't care less. Love the book, love the movie. Christian Bale I'll kiss your feet.

 American Psycho is a disturbingly misunderstood story, but...

 Short summary, Patrick Bateman is a jaded 27 year old Wall Street investment banker who resorts to homicide to feel something. (Therapy doesn't help)

 It's a satire about class, socially standardized masculinity and the writers life living under these ideas of quote "...becoming the man you feel you have to be, the man who is cool, slick, handsome, effortlessly moving through the world, modelling suits  in Esquire, having babes on his arm." 

 Everyone in the story is so similar that no one but Patrick, Luis and the women seem to differentiate one from the other, the conversations they have don't stray any further than babes, coke and 'Does my dotted Armani tie match with my cream Hermès cotton shirt?', whenever they do talk about anything outside these subjects it's full of crap you'd read in a travel magazine. Absolutely no personal interest or thought goes into anything they say they jabber about whatever you'd expect mannequins draped in suits and ties would talk about in their spare time. "It's a lifestyle sold as life, a lifestyle that never seemed to include passion, creativity, curiosity, romance, pain. Everything meaningful wiped away in favour of surfaces,..."

 I too giggle and say to myself 'He's so me.' because that's how it is, he's a reflection of us, one way or another we're trying to live up to the social standards put in place to live a comfortable life. Instead of learning and moving away from the alienation of self self proclaimed "Sigmas" applaud and strive to be this perfect "you could always be thinner, look better" man with a dark and mysterious secret. They take his character at face value: hot sexy man, big tits, twenty chicks in the rooster, rich, and roll with it, because half of these people are children who were subjected to believe that investing in crypto at a young age is going to make you an "Alpha". 

 "Alpha" and "Sigma" aren't even real fucking positions the only one who cares is you, it's a title you made up and it's a title only a small amount of people wish to live up to. You being a "Sigma Mewer" means nothing to the teacher giving you an F on a missed assigment nor does it matter to anyone else outside the community.

 Since most of these people are teenagers who might have seen a few clips without watching the movie or reading the book they'll miss the other side of this lifestyle. It's all golden coins and babes in bikinis on the outside and a deadass corpse on the inside left with wanting more. He's already got everything so he tries to be better even at the smallest things, have a better card, a better chick, a better tan, be thinner and with this his murders become more gruesome because he needs to feel something anything. Is this the life you want to live? Do you genuinely want to have everything as early as you can so you have nothing to look for in the future? The book and movie isn't even meant to be viewed by people younger than 18 what are we doing bruh.

 Wanting to yell at your mom and some random chick is just hormones trust me bro. You and a grown ass man are not the same he's hysteric you're just upset.

 "Sigma male tips" are either catered to grown ass men or made by 16 year olds after their first rejections. Half ya'll gay anyways.