26th
American Psycho
I watched this movie a couple days ago. The ending (spoiler alert) was potentially a cop out. Here we’ve got some guy that’s a product of American materialistic neurosis, taken to the extreme, and they’ve created this plausible plot where the natural reaction is for this person to serially massacre people. But then, you’ve got this ending where they leave open whether or not he ever really did it at all or whether it was just all in his head. I get it, I suppose, that it ultimately doesn’t matter whether or not he did it, just that its plausible that he might, and maybe this uncertainty sets up the final existential monologue at the end (“this confession means nothing”) which was pretty decent I thought, but I couldn’t help but feel disappointed that this may have been all just one big dream that essentially puts him right where he was at the start of the movie.
