![]() The violence against women has led many to believe that the novel is misogynistic. The movie removed or mitigated the novel’s violence, and rearranged much of the material: apart from that, the film was reasonably faithful. It is an extremely controversial novel, given its depiction of increasingly brutal violence against women this issue led many feminists to protest the novel.Ī movie version was made in 2000, the screenplay written by Guinevere Turner and Mary Harron (the latter also being the director), and starring Christian Bale in the lead role. It is an unreliable first person narrative, in the present tense, given by the main character, Patrick Bateman, who is a yuppieliving in 1980s New York City. Slashers & Serial Killers in Review: American Psycho (2000)Īmerican Psycho is a satirical novel written by Bret Easton Ellis and published in 1991. ![]()
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