Face, identity and soul: Nothing

Garrick 2021-10-13 13:05:51

When I watched a movie, I couldn’t help but want to fast forward. I skipped a few shots and watched below. Then I really did it. I found that the plots before and after they couldn’t be connected. It was just a 40-second or 1-2 minute jump. Can't keep up.
Bite the scalp, go back and continue from where you just saw.

Of course, I keep wanting to fast forward like this because of discomfort.
The other side confirms that the level of this film is really choking.

The beginning is good, Patrick Bateman, Wall Street-Pierce & Pierce-Vice President, looks very rich and has a beautiful fiancee.
Hey, how happy your life is...Patrick, you still exercise so much every day and love yourself so much...you will surely live a long time in the future.
Oh, I just discovered that these young and successful people are not busy with meetings and stocks every day to make money, but serious discussions about suits and ties, whoever booked a seat in a high-end restaurant, whose business card is more beautiful...The
company can really give you = =
......But who knows?

Then the plot made me lose control...I couldn't help but fast forward and want to skip some plots, but it didn't work (hidden face).
So I thought, there are always some key parts that I can say.

1. Dorsia,

I remember first, it is the name of this hotel that is always unable to book a seat.
The first time Patrick called, his tone was a little nervous, and then he was laughed at.
For the secret girlfriend of the drug, the girlfriend of the fiancée.
In the end, she was confused by taking drugs, and the camera gave a close-up-the menu of another hotel, but she didn't even pay attention.

On the second call, the tone was calm and calm, and the other party calmly repeated "The seat has been booked" twice.
It's for female secretary Jean. Jean said repeatedly, "It's okay, it mainly depends on where you want to go." I guess she will be happy everywhere?
Finally took her to Paul Allen's house, and several different coincidences superimposed, Jean did not die.

I don't know what I want to say, but I think the tense attempted murder of Patrick and Jean in the apartment is a very important climax in the film.
I just think it's very important. Finally, he called Jean during the crash. I think Jean can recognize Patrick's situation only by listening to the voice.
Perhaps Jean is the one who knows the existence of this person best in the film.

2. Blond

Patrick insists on blond hair, his fiancee is blond, his secret girlfriend is blond, the model is blond, J woman also requires blond hair, and the secretary is also blond, except for the red-haired girl, all are blond beauties.
It seems popular that Goldilocks is the sexiest, which seems to be the case.
Another level of public opinion orientation.

3. The business card is

beautiful and tasteful, this is the meaning of the business card.
In fact, I think that has strengthened the irony, because the situation of several people calling the wrong name and confessing to the wrong person makes the business card worthless.
Therefore, everyone who was jealous of each other could smell the sourness secretly from a mile away.
I think that very interesting scene was that when Patrick tried to strangle that guy, the man said that I had been paying attention to you for a long time...
Oh, my God, I could hear Patrick's tangled wry smile.

4. Gloves

always have gloves, a lot of close-ups of gloves, many murder scenes also wear gloves.
Gloves are another layer of mask.
Including his expensive coat.
I also noticed his insistence on certain details, such as coasters, such as self-care, such as smoking.
And this obviously shows that he is always so tight.

5. Women

Patrick said that he is an artist and can buy a woman's body with money. Christin's hesitation almost doomed her to be killed. The lens gave her a lot of close-ups.
I think she noticed Patrick's anomaly, but she did not refuse the temptation of money in the end.

6. The language

has been talking about freedom, peace, and those moral Patrick. I noticed that he only attracted the attention of others for a short period of time, and everyone's answers? Perfunctory and careless.
The same is true for talking to people.
Patrick explained to the laundry that the blood-stained sheets were washed off-unable to communicate.
She told her fiancee to break up, and she continued to sit there after crying.
Telling the truth to the lawyer, he was mistaken for another one, and Paul Allen was mistaken for another...
I think only Jean listened to him seriously.
There is also the detective, although he is serious about investigating the case, but when he took out the CD that Patrick put when he killed someone, I thought that either he would admit to killing (although it would be useless), or he found out that the detective also had something with him. He has the same taste in music and is secretly pleased (so there will be no more play)
he chose the most normal answer, indicating that he never listens to pop music (the case continues to be confused...)

7.

There is always a reason for music to become popular. Speaking of people's hearts-I think so.
Before he kills, Patrick always talks at length about the music he loves and how beautiful the music is. When I first saw it, I couldn’t help but want to jump over it, but then I realized that it was himself, what he liked, and wanted to share with others. s things.
Helplessly, no one really listened to him.

8. The indifferent

beggar is dead, no one cares.
Christin ran the whole building and no one answered.
Patrick dragged Paul Allen's body bag, no one cared about the blood stains all the way.
I didn't care if I was hit by someone.
The model said to him You are Sweet, I don't know if it's sincere.
Patrick who was mistaken.
Killed so many people and still haven't been discovered.
The newly repainted Paul Allen's house is almost horrifying white, and the landlord said you don't get into trouble-it's enough to make people think about it for a long time.

9. Jean

Patrick said how her clothes should be changed, she would change it.
The smile is sweet and the eyes are sincere.
After giving her a lot of close-ups, the director tried XD
to come to the apartment unsuspectingly, looking very happy, whether it was in Dorsia or not.
He was also very happy to eat ice cream. Patrick picked up the tape and put it back. He picked up the electric drill and put it down. The phone rang was both life-saving and accidental.
But he let it go, for whatever reason.
Their conversation can be said to be quite sincere:
J: Do you want me to leave?
P: Yes...I think I can't control myself.
J: I know, it's always like this...I'm always entangled with men who can't get it...I mean, you want me to leave?
P: I think if you stay, bad things will happen... I think I will hurt you. You don't want to be hurt, do you?
J: No, I don't think so, I don't want to be bruised and swollen.

Whether it is a bit ambiguous, and the mood of murder, I think these are puns or even three hurdles.

10. In the

last scene of Nothing , on the door behind Patrick is THIS IS NOT AN EXIT, which is said to be the last sentence of the original novel.
Make an innocent look, but it doesn't matter in the bones.
There is no need to worry about the perpetrator’s anxiety.
I think Patrick’s pain is long and unsolvable, and Jean read those paintings and she cried for it.
After reading it, I think there is nothing strange about this society, I think it is the real creepy.
It may not be clear whether he murdered, but there is no solution at all.
I don't think Patrick can dig deeper, and he puts his pain on others and doesn't want anyone to escape.

I don't want anyone to flee.

There is a bonus for being promised to work hard overtime, which is often not honored.
I was promised that I would love you, but I couldn't even love myself.
The donkey can't eat the carrots in front of him.
I think I’m short-sighted, I can’t see a more distant future, I can’t see what I will be like in thirty years, maybe staying in a small house with relief money, or making a fortune.
The world is very normal.
I think there is no one here, no one really cares—thinking, telling, even telling the truth.
In fact, there is no one.
No one is listening.

I think no one really cares whether you have a soul, no one really cares what you like, and no one really cares whether you are exploring your own nature by listening to music or killing people.
A blurry existence, and this is the most normal place.

So There Is Nothing.

Quietly watched Christian Bale sitting in the cafe with sweat slowly fading away. Next to him, three men watched TV and complained.
One person said that I am not hungry but I want to make a reservation somewhere.
He was not listening.

Nothing.





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  • Nicholaus 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    I guess watched it as horror or porn, but noticed a little difference in 'dumb' Jean. From wearing trousers to wearing wide-shouldered tops even with skirts and back to trousers, only she is still talking about self development and growth without fear of being teased. Patrick and his colleagues will be ridiculed for mentioning stopping nuclear weapons competition, terrorism and hunger, fighting racial discrimination, promoting civil rights and women's equality, not to mention most importantly, we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people. Good It's cool to admit that you're doing murders and executions, but it's still heard as Mergers and Acquisitions. No one is talking or listening. Exquisite food has no taste, and exquisite business cards don't matter who it is. The key to communication is to reserve a seat. Sexual interaction is only a matter of showing off or even showing off. How can a group of people become a pile of meat. I guess I've killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. /Let's say 4

  • Britney 2021-10-20 18:59:09

    It’s not as exciting as expected, but the section of raincoat cutting people is generally recognized as brilliance. There is no uniform that I like, bloody HIGH, BALE is worthy of praise, it is indeed extraordinary, or it looks pleasing to the eye now, how thin when you were young, no matter it is fantasy Still true, this ending is not very flattering!

American Psycho quotes

  • Patrick Bateman: Hey, I'm a child of divorce, gimme a break!

  • Paul Allen: This is really a beehive of, uh, activity, Halberstam. This place is hot, very hot.

    Patrick Bateman: Listen, the mud soup and the charcoal arugula are outrageous here.

    Paul Allen: Yeah, well. You're late.

    Patrick Bateman: Hey, I'm a child of divorce. Give me a break.

    [studies menu]

    Patrick Bateman: Hmmmm, I see they've omitted the pork loin with lime Jell-O.

    Patrick Bateman: [looks across the room] Is that Ivana Trump over there? Jeez, Patrick, I mean Marcus, what are you thinking? Why would Ivana be at Texarkana?