Why It Works: American Psycho

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Murderer or not, Patrick Bateman is a prick. He's greedy, misogynistic, obsessive, spends time with yuppies he can't stand, cheats on his fiancée with a woman he can't stand, and can't generate a modicum of compassion to save his life- so why the hell would we want to watch this guy for two hours? Where AMERICAN PSYCHO reels us in is in having Patrick Bateman admit this to us right up front. "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me… I simply am not there."