Mary Harron Knew The Music Of American Psycho Had To Set A Tone

Dec 24 2022 by /Film

 

"American Psycho" satirizes the culture of the 1980s, and you can't talk about the decade and leave out the era's music. The '80s were a conservative decade, with an ascendant political right-wing, the financialization of the global economy, and more commercial art compared with the subversiveness of the 1960s and '70s.

Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale in Mary Harron's film version), an avatar of '80s banality and depravity, loves music. Or at least, he tries to. He's frequently seen adorned...

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