Scenes, part 4

American Psycho is a controversial movie for me to have as one of my favorites.  A lot of people don't understand the movie, and therefore only see the terrible things portrayed on screen and refuse to dig deeper.  This movie is only about a psychotic (maybe) killer on the surface.  In reality, the original novel by Ellis is more about the place that rampant materialism is heading.  Imagine a world where things, rather than ideas or knowledge or love, have become what we desire most.  A world where we objectify everything, even people, and only work to feed our own pleasures.  Patrick Bateman is already there, and it's terrifying.  In his mind, everything in his life is put there for his pleasure.  Money, technology, women.  All cater to his needs and he uses them and tosses them aside without a thought.  In this particular scene, all of that comes to a head.  Here we see him slaughter a drunken friend for no real reason other than dislike of having to deal with him on a regular basis.  All the while, Huey Lewis plays on in the background.  Pay attention to things in the scene that tell us this isn't so much a slasher flick as it is a tale of American consumerism and materialism gone berserk.  The raincoat, the newspaper, the newest technology, the things Bateman says.  Such a masterpiece.