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American Psycho

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What’s it about?

In 1980s Manhattan, investment banker Patrick Bateman navigates a world of status, consumerism, and violence—where the line between reality and fantasy blurs, and horror hides beneath a perfectly exfoliated surface.

You’ll learn

  • Consumerism can hollow out identity
  • Violence as a product of emptiness
  • The banality of evil in plain sight
  • Indifference of a commodified world