I guess there will be a BEFORE and an AFTER AMERICAN PSYCHO in Christian Bale's career. He was revealed with this film, this performance. I tried to read the novel, but I dropped it very early in the process, because one hundred pages - I nearly exagerate - to describe in details which liquid or soap he uses to wash, take his shower, to shave his face.... I could not, sorry. The movie is far more "approachable" than the book. The adaptation could be compared to THE PERFUME, also a difficult story on paper to put on screen. But the book was riveting for me, more than AMERICAN PSYCHO. But after all, that's only a matter of taste. This one is disturbing, but also easy to be taken on the second degree for some scenes.
Review of American Psycho
