...oh thank the Lord, I thought it was just me because of how violent it was and because I’d avoided eye contact with the screen for so much of it...I felt that it had taken so much more out of the movie and story for me as well so I’d lost the storyline and point that other viewers wouldn’t lose...I mean, I presumed it wasn’t all real and some was imagined because his lawyer had confirmed that he hadn’t killed that guy...but had he killed anyone or no one at all and everything was imagined...had he killed some homeless people but not killed them in his own home...I mean he was obviously very disturbed, whether it be real or not ...but so much of the movie was given over to the actual killings themselves and the brutality of them...to have left it hanging like that....and I also had no place of being able to get inside his head either, to see any emotion...and even with extremely disturbed emotion, we’re still often able to see it in characters and we need to, I think...that for me is an essential because it does give me the ‘watchable’ bits to counter the violence I can’t watch...but there was nothing...neither love or contempt for humans, they just weren’t human to him...is what it felt...he felt nothing, they were nothing...what was the point and it took very little to trigger him and sometimes nothing at all because it was all preplanned...other than to say this ‘perfectly ordered person in nice expensive suits is actually a monster...but we didn’t even know that for sure ....I wanted to see if anyone else felt the same or if I just wasn’t getting it...

I think you have to have some characters in there that make you want to route for them. The whole film just felt soul less to me

...even with characters like Hannibal Lecter, there is something that you can attach to in the whole psychology of it...but there was nothing in American Psycho for me...

Oh really thats interesting, i did wonder because right at the beginning he is pondering wether to go back Naomi because he says 'she's nice and she loved me'...and then near the end a couple of times him and Clementine have a conversation about wether he's married and I think he says he lives with someone ...so it would have been interesting to see how he got out of that because he seems so awkward/ shy and lonely like he hasn't had a partner for ages otherwise...but like you say maybe it's guilt..

Yes Howard was really creepy, i did not see that coming when Mary came on to him, that they had already been together, seems like both him and Patrick were taking advantage of the system, which i think is probably why Mary did what she did with the tapes... Mary needs to be with the Mark Gruffalo character...