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First of all, the book and the film have run along the lines of stereotyping. They say that if a person does not give the impression of a killer, no one will perceive him as a killer. All the people around Patrick Bateman had their own ideas about murderers and maniacs, and Pat was so different from this image that even his confessions were taken as a joke. Even when they felt gloved hands clenching around their necks, they didn't think about suffocation, but that Pat was gay.
Secondly, it is a banal search for yourself. At some point, Patrick found himself thinking that no matter what he did, no matter what nonsense he said, he still remains the same for everyone, no one wants, no one allows Patrick to change the image, to get out of the image that he has been in for a long time. It's much easier and more convenient for everyone to perceive Bateman automatically – “here's a rich vice president, a witty guy who understands a lot of things” – than to be seriously interested in what happens to a person in the end.
“There is no way out”
The meaning of the film conveys the meaning of the book of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis. The leitmotif of the work is a mockery of the yuppie lifestyle (yapp-ie “Young Urban Professional Person”), banter over the American “eighties”, when the focus is not on moral values and at least some human relationships, but show-offs, show-offs, love for money, COMPLIANCE with a cool lifestyle. No wonder the author devotes so much time to describing brands – all this shows the essence of the hero of Patrick Bateman. Cheap, fake essence. And murder and violence are a vivid example of the same concept of “no one gives a shit about each other”.
The fact that the consumer society reduces all life, internal and external, to the display of symbols of prosperity. Nothing else matters. You can kill, you can be a psychopath, you can do any obscenity… If you're doing a flourishing job, no one will care.