Normies

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean, this is exactly what that scene is trying to convey.

  That… this dude is weirdly interested in ‘co-worker music’.

  Hell, Bateman even literally says that one of their albums was too mainstream, too generic.

  Bateman is totally vapid and hollow inside, and is desperately trying to find meaning, evoke an actually interesting response, but all he knows how to do is pantomime a cariacature of the perfect wall street socialite type.

  So, you carry that forward, and the analogy works out to roughly: everyone whose entire life is wholly about fitting in to corpo culture, keeping up with the jones’s, everyone who is a ‘coworker music’ type of NPC automaton, ‘my personality is a couple Tiktok trends’ type person…

  … they all have the potential to have this same Bateman style psychotic break, if they ever become… self-aware enough of their own lack of actual, genuine identity.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Maybe I didn’t understand the scene, when I watched it I assumed he had planned to kill the guy all along and that was just stuff Bateman was saying to make him think everything was normal

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He did obviously plan the murder ahead, seeing as the room is covered in newspapers and plastic. But the theme of Bateman’s vanity runs throughout the film and especially, much more so, the novel.

      Bateman later goes to Allen’s apartment, iirc to make it look like Allen went away on a trip. The book has this passage, that iirc didn’t make it to the film: “I have a mild panic attack seeing that Allen’s apartment is nicer than mine.”

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t disagree, that is the more direct way to understand the scene from uh… like a perspective of ‘what is happening, why is it happening’, in relation to how the plot functions and progresses.

      But if you go a bit deeper, into ‘why is the author having the plot work like this, why has the author used/created this kind of a character, what, if anything, is the message or lesson or moral they are trying to convey’… I guess my first comment is how I answer those kinds of questions.

      Writing a plot that makes sense and is at least logically consistent, possible/plausible, that’s one thing.

      Another thing is to do that, but in such a way that the specific plot beats, character decisions, they’re all designed to ultimately convey a more complex idea by illustrating an engaging scenario that demonstrates it, as opposed to just directly stating that moral or lesson.

      Of course, media analysis is always subjective

      I just didn’t preface my entire first comment with ‘Well, I think that…’ or ‘In my opinion…’, partially because I am autistic and tend to be blunt, but also partially because it comes across as more certain and confident, and is thus slightly more convincing, rhetorically.

      So that right there is me trying to demonstrate my kind of analysis of author intent… on myself.

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You forgot to start by asking if I like Brett Easton Ellis.

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• TheLamb@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fucking good reference

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• rustyfish@piefed.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Motherfucker…You got me.

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• lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Motherhecker got me in the end right there, I’ll tell you that!

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• ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do ya like Huey Lewis and the News? Do ya like Jazz??

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you like movies about gladiators?

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    • Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Have you ever been to a Turkish prison?

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Do you like American Psycho?”

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• Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It had taken me years to be at peace with the notion that some people love Maroon 5 and think Adam Levine’s voice is angelic.

  Thankfully, none of the Maroon 5 fans I know are Bateman coded, but I did date a guy who unironocally worshipped Billy Ray Cyrus and he was probably the biggest psycho I have ever known.

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• criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I bet the bastards business cards are “bone” colored as well.

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• OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hey, Hip to be Square is an eighties masterpiece, and my six year old self will fite you

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  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The heart of rock n roll is the beat, man.

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• Angrydeuce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Prolly had to go return some videotapes…

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You Look Like You Could Use A Fuckin’ Lamp

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gHl4P7AXt0

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  • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s raining bullshit tonight

    youtu.be/J-x_01TNTr0

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah, another wonderful classic 👍

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• AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Typical tool fan

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like opiate better than any of their later stuff. I’m the guy maynard is bitching about in “hooker with a penis”

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean that’s 80 claymation 15 vibes

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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This gave me flashbacks to emo music in the 2000s.

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