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| "Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?" |
by Andy Nowicki
Patrick Bateman is a now legendary anti-hero, first depicted
in Bret Easton Ellis’s excruciatingly hilarious and bleakly horrifying 1990 novel
American Psycho, and brought to the screen a decade later in a career-making performance by Christian Bale. Unlike
Bale’s more famous later cinematic incarnation, Bateman is no “dark knight,”
but rather a deeply vain, vapid, and vacuous man with a killer smile, who also happens
to be a serial killer.
