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American Psycho 美国精神病人
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.
你确信认识他吗？帕特里克•贝特曼是华尔街的骄子，炙手可热的股票经纪人，年轻有为的他每天给自己的客户们赚进无数的美元。这么说吧，他绝对是个帮你管钱敛钱的好朋友。这个年轻的小伙子受过良好的教育，英俊迷人，谈吐风趣幽默。不过，这一切仅在白天有效。当夜幕降临时，黑暗的无边恐怖唤醒了贝特...
推荐理由：从极度的物质富足转变为极度变态的攀比心理，再到无比空虚的精神世界，影片展现出美国一个时代的精神病患。
