The Killing Joke: American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron, 2000)
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For a while, it seemed like every straight guy I knew liked American Psycho, and they all liked it for the wrong reasons. It was the Phil Collins scene. If you’ve seen the movie, you know it: Patrick Bateman hires two sex workers, and fucks them both, while taping the whole thing, but not before subjecting them to his extremely long, wrong, boring thoughts on Phil Collins. It’s his ritual before most killings, and during most sex. He recites a full, terrible record review, which he has never published anywhere, just so that the other person will have to pretend to care about his opinion.
The Killing Joke: American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron, 2000)
The Killing Joke: American Psycho (dir. Mary…
The Killing Joke: American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron, 2000)
For a while, it seemed like every straight guy I knew liked American Psycho, and they all liked it for the wrong reasons. It was the Phil Collins scene. If you’ve seen the movie, you know it: Patrick Bateman hires two sex workers, and fucks them both, while taping the whole thing, but not before subjecting them to his extremely long, wrong, boring thoughts on Phil Collins. It’s his ritual before most killings, and during most sex. He recites a full, terrible record review, which he has never published anywhere, just so that the other person will have to pretend to care about his opinion.