She was a powerful personality. All the records indicate that she was of seemingly above average beauty standards, but nothing earth shattering.

Instead, it is claimed that her strength of personality is what attracted the powerful men in her life to her.

They’d probably drown fairly quickly though. Unless they were Saltwater Boar.

Sure it can, just look at Wikipedia. But it’s probably a good idea to have some alternate forms of revenue generation.

It’s clearly not the US version, so we should assume this is a translation error for the “none of these” instead of “none of the above” perhaps.

…And then it got worse.

(said in a thick Russian accent)

You’re from the UK I presume then? 🙂

Yup, I agree with your points. It’s where I landed too. I always just try to see it from the perspective of people who like the hallucination theory.

It’s like the Ferris Bueler was in the head of his friend and wasn’t real theory. At first glance, kinda explains a lot. But it’s absolutely not true, and the are breaks in the movie that would happen if it were, additionally the director said that wasn’t true straight up.

But people still believe it. I try not to antagonize, but to show how unlikely that theory is to hold up.

I don’t think that was the takeaway from the American Psycho book. There’s a lot of unknowns that the author leaves up to the reader, but at no point did I get the impression the whole thing was a hallucination. It can go a lot of ways from an interpretation standpoint, but there is no definitive ending in either the book or the movie (I believe the movie is even made more ambiguous on purpose).

There’s just as good of a chance that he killed everyone and got away with it because he’s rich and powerful (a satirical characteristic of 80’s “power” businessmen the book was trying to expose).

Most assume he killed at least the prostitutes, because there are callbacks and some police records indicating that in the background. It’s only very slightly questionable if he killed his peers/business associates.

Here’s an article that breaks it down from the movie standpoint

I’ll call out an excerpt from the end:

A popular theory is that Patrick did in fact kill everyone he copped to in his phone call to Harold, including all the ones we saw with our own eyes — that is, except for Paul Allen. This theory is most likely the closest to the truth when we take into account Paul Allen’s vacant apartment, with no signs of Patrick’s murderous rampage to be found. This theory would also explain Harold’s claim that he just had lunch with Paul Allen, so there is no way Bateman could have killed him.

On the flip side, another theory is that Patrick killed everyone, including Paul Allen. We do know that Patrick has a vendetta against Paul Allen, yet another pretentious yuppie with a superior business card. It is also possible that Harold had lunch with someone he thought was Paul Allen — we know how common it is for Bateman’s superficial crowd to mistake each other for someone else.

Both primary competing theories on the movie are that he killed almost everyone, or everyone. In the books it’s similar, even less ambiguous that he killed at least several people.

I would say the less popular and less supported version of the story is that he hallucinated everything. It’s kind of one of those theories that makes sense, but the “facts” in the story don’t add up and force a break of character. It also fights against the narrative of the author who was intending it to be a satire of the power-mad, power-hungry, grab-them-by-the-pussy businessmen of the 80’s, and what they could get away with.

I know everyone’s exhausted by politics, but truthfully, people like trump, the playboy “billionaire” tycoons of the 80’s was who Patrick was supposed to be emulating.

And we all know trump could shoot someone on 5th ave and get away with it at this point.

Looks like the author knew their stuff.

Yup, same, I’m enjoying learning German this way now

I’ve, legit, learned a decent amount of German just by having Google translate up on my second monitor browsing lemmy late at night.

I have strong feelings on the blur amount and they are:

Yeah, sadly. He’s super-religious, and a hardcore right winger. He attempted to turn the whole OG Chuck Norris Meme from the early 00’s, into some ministry for Jesus, completely missing the point.

He’s been a pretty hardcore republican since at least Reagan IIRC.

Fuck Chuck Norris in his Maga supporting and Christo fascist face.

And if he floats, he’s also a witch.

Best I can do is a once in a centuries empire collapse.