3. American Pyscho
One of my favorite films. Great book, great movie, great ending. Was Patrick Bateman really a serial killer, did he really kill all the people he had confessed to, or was it all in his mind? Was the American Psycho more the commentary on the Wall Street yuppie culture of the 1980's? Was it Ronald Reagan? Was it Patrick Bateman? I prefer to think that he didn't do squat. Knowing that Bret Easton Ellis intended the book as a feminist novel at its core, and having Mary Harron direct it gave it the proper woman's perspective, meaning we're looking at how asinine men can behave at times. This was a film about a guy who was so desparate to be cool and to "fit in" as Bateman says, that he's a sissy in real life. All this machismo and murder and power is created in his head because he's worthless in actuality, just another one in six billion people. But you never know for sure, and I've had many an argument with friends about who's right here and we never come to an agreement. To me, that only proves the film's success in communicating a solid statement about society and culture and it does it all by being very strange.