American Psycho OCD Tweets

American Psycho is a legend and Bret Easton Ellis is its prophet. It happens when violence becomes the normal expression of a repressed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a human being, generally the result of some trauma in infancy or childhood. What’s more, Bret Easton Ellis’s style is unique in this shift from OCD to, in his case, complex nominal composition. Enjoy the trip in the films and some literary extension, and then a very close study of the Obsessive Compulsive Disordered nominal phrase complexity. Even Shakespeare would not have dared to go that far, even in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

AMERICAN PSYCHO

Bret Easton Ellis

Films 1 & 2

American Psycho (English audio. English subtitles) Uncut 102 min by Christian Bale From United Kingdom

5.0 out of 5 stars

What’s cooking in the financial Hell’s Kitchen

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 March 2005

Watch that film a second or a third time and enjoy the impossible meaning of it. The character is brilliant, cruel, inhuman, vicious, and perverse. He is a metaphor for the financial world of today: those who have the power of money can do all they want, including killing anyone who has the only shortcoming of being there at hand when they shouldn’t have been. Jealousy is the basic feeling and envy is the basic passion.

At the same time, this character and the film are a metaphor for the illusion this financial world is. The illusion that the world is their property, though it is not. They are ranting and raving about it but the world goes on revolving on its axis and evolving into its own future that has nothing to do with what these finance people want ou would like it to be. The world has its own history and no one has the power to kill all those who do not fit, to reject them forever, and to negate thousands of years of multifarious human struggle for collective freedom and progress.