American Psycho is the most brilliant film released since 2000 and it's largely misunderstood by it's critics. The 1991 book by Bret Easton Ellis was considered to be largely un-filmable because of the grapic violence and sexual content of the book. It only got filmed because of writer and director Mary Harron's relentless efforts to put the Ellis novel on the screen, despite the conventional wisdom that any film of the book was DOA at the box office.
Here's two connected scenes from American Psycho that demostrate Bale's amazing talent.
In the first scene, Christian Bale runs to hide in his office to flee a police dragnet after a killing spree. Bale leaves a message on his attorney's answering machine in the middle of the night to confess that he's a serial killer:
The sencond clip unfolds on the following day when Bale runs into the same attorney he confessed to the previous night at a Harry's Bar. Bale gets this darkly comic reaction to his confession from his attorney:
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