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OutWithCamera t1_j66h7by wrote

Reply to comment by ChairmanUzamaoki in What is the meaning of the depth Patrick Bateman goes into about music in American Psycho? by ChairmanUzamaoki

Understood, I think I started to read the book an eon ago but my recollection is that the endless detailed analysis of pop music made it unreadable for me, I simply could not deal with pages of discussion about a Huey Lewis and the News tune. I think one of the things about the movie that struck me was the way scenes of his home were annotated like an IKEA catalog.

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Cultural_Election118 t1_j66q05g wrote

> scenes of his home were annotated like an IKEA catalog.

Wasn't that Fight Club?

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OutWithCamera t1_j66qnts wrote

Haha entirely probable! Oops

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OutWithCamera t1_j69kfff wrote

I have conflated this aspect of both these movies before, I think I first watched both about the same time and the obsession with the material world in each is kind of striking to me, combined with the way the movies concluded that left the viewer (in my case anyway) wondering what was real and what was only in the MC's heads.

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tundrapanic t1_j67qxly wrote

Maybe commercial pop music will ultimately turn you into a psychopath?

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