第一段台词: Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. But we can't ignore our social needs. either We have to stop people from abusing the welfare system. We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights while also promoting equal rights for women but change the abortion laws to protect the right to life yet still somehow maintain women's freedom of choice. 表面上蝙蝠侠是个良民的代表
I have all the characteristics of a human being- flesh, blood, skin, hair-but not a single clear, identifiable emotion except for greed ,und disgust. Something horrible is happening inside me and I don't know why. 本质是个变态狂
ALL IN UNISON There are no girls with good personalities! (They laugh and high-five each other) VAN PATTEN A good personality consists of a chick with a little hardbody who will satisfy all sexual demands without being too slutty about things and who will essentially keep her dumb ****ing mouth shut. McDERMOTT Listen, the only girls with good personalities who are smart or maybe funny or halfway intelligent or even talented-though God knows what the **** that means-are ugly chicks. VAN PATTEN Absolutely. McDERMOTT And this is because they have to make up for how ****ing unattractive they are. Pause.
About the Film Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" was perhaps the most controversial and hotly-debated novel of the last decade. Inciting all manner of protests for its graphic violence, its intensely dark tone made both the book and its author the subject of intense criticism. But the novel was not without its defenders. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times noted that "it's as if 'American Psycho' had returned us to some bygone age when books were still a matter of life and death instead of something to distract us on a flight between JFK and LAX." And, Lehmann-Haupt may have best conveyed the essence of the book in his description of its central character: "Patrick Bateman lives in a morally flat world in which clothes have more value than skin, objects are worth more than bones, and the human soul is something to be sought with knives and hatchets and drills." Few characters have personified an era as disturbingly as Patrick Bateman. In the same way that FRANKENSTEIN gave us a monster for its time, AMERICAN PSYCHO gives us a monster for the late 20th century. Showing contemporary urban life through the eyes of a serial killer--forcing readers to enter his mind and understand his motives--the book sets forth a vision that is both terrifying and chilling. A superbly wrought specimen who has all the accoutrements of a young "master of the universe," from designer wardrobe to designer pharmaceuticals, Bateman is seemingly perfect--just like everyone else in his crowd. He desperately wants to fit in yet, the terrible irony is, the more he tries to be like every other money-drenched man on Wall Street, the more faceless he becomes--and the less control he has over the terrible urges that, ironically, make him feel like an individual. Bateman is a paragon of conformity in an amoral society where to conform is to be amoral. But, more than other fictional criminals, the character of Patrick Bateman seemed to strike a particularly raw cultural nerve. Woven inextricably into his bloodlust was his lust for things, a kind of material fetishism for well known brand name, products, and places, that seemed almost as gruesome as his crimes. Relentlessly, he reminded us of our culture's insatiable greed during the extraordinary economic boom of the late 1980s. By implicating us into Bateman's nightmarish world through the very clothes we wore and things we owned, by linking every trend we followed and every pop icon we worshipped to such a morally bankrupt murderer, AMERICAN PSYCHO might have struck too close to home--but what a beautifully decorated home it was! Now, nearly a decade after the book's publication, benefiting from the distance and sharpened perspective that come with time, "American Psycho's" provocative social commentary can be re-evaluated and appreciated. Looking back from the cusp of the new millennium, we realize it operates metaphorically and that its content is not as emotionally charged nor as literal as it once seemed. It can finally be confronted--this time in the form of a stunning social satire for the screen. 这是有关的影评
"Patrick Bateman lives in a morally flat world in which clothes have more value than skin, objects are worth more than bones, and the human soul is something to be sought with knives and hatchets and drills." 呃 总之不算太恐怖 但绝对是限制级 over