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#230 - A Tasteful Thickness (Patreon)

Published:
2021-04-30 19:14:55
Edited:
2021-04-30 19:17:06
Imported:
2024-06

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We finally tackle the ultimate movie about '80s Wall Street excess, AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000), which refracts Bret Easton Ellis through the prisms of Mary Harron and Christian Bale. We discuss its central performance, its many ambiguities, and why it is a quintessentially late-'90s statement on the '80s. PLUS: how capitalism is prolonging the pandemic, and why the drug companies are not your friends.

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murt pie

To add another obvious observation, everything you say about Bateman could of course also be said about Donald Trump. This was the milieu in which he first rose to fame, and he's every bit the hollow commodity fetishist that Bateman is. Can't you just hear it? "Folks, my business cards, they're the best. People come up to me all the time, they say, 'Donald,' they say, 'your business cards, they're the best. You have the best paper, the best logo.' People are saying it more and more."

J.P. McD.

Rules of Attraction (the semi-sequel) could be a good one to do - I think I actually liked it better than AP last time I saw it. My memory could be wrong, but in my head it feels like a possible End of History holdover despite being released in 2002?? I mean, Dawson is in it...