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: He begins killing out of a sense of inferiority or annoyance—for instance, murdering a colleague, Paul Allen, because he has a better business card and a superior apartment.

: He performs 1,000 stomach crunches and follows an exhaustive multi-step skincare regimen involving deep-pore cleansers, honey almond body scrubs, and herb mint masks. American_Psycho_HD_2000_

Beneath this "polished facade" lies a deeply disturbed psychopath. Bateman suffers from what analysis identifies as narcissism, emotional detachment, and a total lack of remorse. : He begins killing out of a sense

The story of the 2000 film (directed by Mary Harron and starring Christian Bale) is a dark, satirical look at the vacuous nature of 1980s yuppie culture. The Man Behind the Mask Bateman suffers from what analysis identifies as narcissism,

The film concludes with Bateman realizing that his "confession has meant nothing". In a world where everyone is so self-absorbed and interchangeable, his acts of violence are either ignored or perhaps entirely imagined, leaving him trapped in a "meaningless" existence where he simply "is not there". How Mary Harron made American Psycho

: His "free time" becomes a descent into total insanity involving chainsaws, axes, and gruesome acts of violence that he hides behind a mask of normalcy. The Illusion of Reality