![]() ![]() īateman telling people what to do, what he thinks, the standards he sets etc. It could actually be anybody sitting there but it's The Bateman driving him to sleep with his coworker's fiancée. Notice the head is there as a projection? When we see this person, whoever he is, he is drinking himself into an early grave. ![]() When his secretary says "thanks Patrick" he says "I'm not here".Įven the friends of Bateman humiliate him and in the beginning they don't even know which man is Paul Allen. A group doppelganger or tulpa but he simply doesn't exist physically. He's talking about the emptiness inside these people he represents and the elitist vanities they use to try to fill them and justify their despicable personalities. The entire dialog once the mask has dried alludes to his lack of physical existence and being the "spirit" that occupies all of these people. The opening dialog itself states "I simply am not there" which was timed so it's said when he peels off the mask. Patrick Bateman does not exist physically but rather is the narrative occupying the minds of all the characters we see and this is alluded to numerous times. ![]()
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