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American Psycho 美國精神病人
Set in Manhattan and beginning on April Fools' Day 1987 and ending in October 1989 (the April 27, 1987 U2 cover of Time Magazine and the October 1989 opening of The Threepenny Opera on Broadway are specifically referenced to bookend the book's action), American Psycho is the story of the daily life of wealthy young investment banker Patrick Bateman. Bateman, 26 years old when the story begins, narrates his everyday activities, from his working and recreational life among the Wall Street elite of New York to his forays into murder by nightfall.
Bateman comes from a privileged background, having graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard (class of 1984), and then Harvard Business School (class of 1986). He works as a vice president at a Wall Street investment company and lives in an expensive Manhattan apartment on the Upper West Side, where he embodies the 1980s yuppie culture. Through present tense stream-of-consciousness narrative, he describes his conversations with colleagues in bars and cafes, his office, and nightclubs. The first third of the book contains no violence (except for subtle references apparent only in retrospect), and is simply an account of what seems to be a series of Friday nights, as Bateman documents travelling with his colleagues to a variety of nightclubs, where they snort cocaine, critique fellow club-goers' clothing, trade fashion advice, and question one another on proper etiquette.
你確信認識他嗎？帕特里克•貝特曼是華爾街的驕子，炙手可熱的股票經紀人，年輕有為的他每天給自己的客戶們賺進無數的美元。這么說吧，他絕對是個幫你管錢斂錢的好朋友。這個年輕的小伙子受過良好的教育，英俊迷人，談吐風趣幽默。不過，這一切僅在白天有效。當夜幕降臨時，黑暗的無邊恐怖喚醒了貝特...
推薦理由：從極度的物質富足轉變為極度變態的攀比心理，再到無比空虛的精神世界，影片展現出美國一個時代的精神病患。
