10 Weirdest Times Films Broke The Fourth Wall
5. Patrick Bateman - American Psycho
Mary Harron's tale of a man that lives a duplicitous life as a wealthy banking executive by day and a serial killer by night is a peek into what exactly it takes to push a man from your average New York yuppie into a flesh-rending psychopath, or if that's the way this warped mind was built all along.
The fourth wall is consistently broken with Patrick Bateman's internal monologue describing exactly how he feels about the innocuous events that unfold around him in day-to-day life and the gleeful indulgence of his dark lifestyle lurking at the edges.
The film wouldn't exactly work without this consistently contrasting point of view, Bateman's face never giving away the intensifying rage that boils up like a unruly pot noodle inside him. That's a bad analogy, but it's all I've got. Look at me breaking the fourth wall!
No better example comes than when Bateman runs us through his meticulous morning routine, explaining in great detail how he looks after his body with regimented precision. That he literally peels off an invisible face in the mirror is symbolic enough that something is remiss with our point of sympathy in the movie.