American Psycho (2000) är en av de filmer som jag sett flest gånger. Den tillhör dessutom mina absoluta favoriter. Även boken av Brett Easton Ellis har lästs, men jag gillar faktiskt filmen mycket mer. Om inte annat så beror det väl på Christian Bale i huvudrollen, som jag tycker om mycket, och som gör en av sina bästa ageranden här (enligt mig i alla fall). Det här handlar om den fullständigt egolöse altruisten Patrick Bateman och hans resa in i vansinnet. Manuset är dessutom onanistiskt välskrivet. Vad sägs om följande i det närmaste oförglömliga citat:

“There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable… I simply am not there.”

“I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don’t know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.”

“There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.”

Helt enkelt fenomenal film i alla bemärkelser. Vi ser även Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto och Willem Dafoe bland andra.