All decade-specific aesthetics and presidential bids aside, the question of how Bateman would react to modern stimuli isn’t as much of a question as it is a means of modern reflection. While it’s always amusing to speculate how he’d navigate modern politics, 11 Madison Park going vegan, and his inevitable existential crisis about the obsolescence of business cards, it seems on some level, the answers don’t matter. Even with all of these changes, the circumstances that created a fictional monster like Bateman are still going strong, meaning on some level, he, or the people he represents, still exist in various forms.
The wealth gap is wider than ever, Wall Street Bros still love f—-ng with stocks for s–ts and giggles (to quote our favorite Doge-peddling Saturday Night Live host, Elon Musk, “Tesla stock price is too high imo”) and the wealthy seemingly evade consequences in aspects of everyday life. No Wall Street CEO’s went to jail after the 2008 financial crisis. Ethan Couch (a.k.a “affluenza teen”) was slapped with 10 days probation after allegedly killing four in a drunk driving accident (although he later served time in the big house for violating probation). Hell, according to ProPublica‘s shocking report from this summer, it seems pretty much everyone from Michael Bloomberg to Warren Buffet allegedly evades income tax (accusations they’ve both denied).
In other words? The call is coming from inside our ultra-expensive, minimalist Upper West Side apartment, which notably does not have a view of Central Park, goddamnit. Even 30 years from its literary debut and more than two decades since its film adaptation hit the big screen, we still live in an environment conducive to creating a small (and hopefully less homicidal) army of IRL Patrick Batemans, a notion Harron reiterated in a 2020 interview with the AV Club.
“So it might’ve seemed like that was a past era, but we’ve never really left that era,” Harron said of the flick. “I think the only thing that happened is people got better at covering it up, paying lip service to feminism or whatever,” she continued noting that her then 22-year-old daughter’s favorite American Psycho scene was when “they’re all at dinner in the sushi restaurant and Bateman’s just blathering these liberal platitudes about what we have to do in society.”
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Source: Pinoy Daily News
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