Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "The Vile Eye" channel.

@kodiejc4202 Tom Cruise is the top celebrity member of Scientology. He is literally involved in a cult at the highest level.
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Not only is it not misspelled it's also a red herring. Immediately before the social worker opens his journal he tells her that he's been using it as a joke book in addition to a journal where he writes down funny thoughts. If you freeze the frame on the page and read the rest of the text around it the sentence makes no sense. Cents is purposely misspelt not only to mean his death earns more money, but also to indicate that the sentence is senseless in the context of the wider thought. It's a subtle nudge to the fact it's merely a passing joke he thought of amidst his ramble. The wider passage text about a man who dies on the sidewalk and everyone steps over him not noticing holds much, much deeper meaning to the character, the events we see and how he feels. Indeed, we see Arthur fall on the concrete in a death like pose numerous starting right from the second scene in the film, immediately before the scene we see the journal in. Throughout the film we also see Arthur metaphorically fall down in the sidewalk and give up, over and over until the end when he realises his place in the world. The use of cents instead of sense has far more significant meaning than appears to be appreciated here.
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You have utterly misunderstood both the character and the conditions you speak about. You likewise seem to have missed key scenes in the film that leave nothing open. Bateman doesn't lack empathy, nor do people with ASPD in general. You can not seriously lie, manipulate, come off as charming nor successfully fit in unless you are intimate with the emotions of others. Empathy is ultimately just the understanding of how ones actions effect others. By definition empathy means 1. The ability to identify with or understand another's situation or feelings: synonym: pity 2. The attribution of one's own feelings to an object. 3. the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person Jean plays a key role in the film, both demonstrating Patrick's ability to feel empathy when he spares her life twice, and in clinching his murders as being firmly based in reality as she flicks through his daily planner only to discover drawings representing his murders on any given day. He further demonstrates empathy through his introspective speech dotted throughout the film. One can not identify a lack of self, nor can one be disgusted at themselves and their monstrous actions without the presence of empathy for their victims. Far from failing to feel empathy, it's the ability to use empathy to manipulate the situation in order to succeed at gaining own desires that is the key to ASPD. That, and the deep seeded insecurities about self worth. Bateman demonstrates these with his obsession over everything from his diet and fitness, to his overreaction to who has the better business card and which table he is seated at. In the world of someone with ASPD everything is viewed through the lens of self. Someone getting a better table or having a better card is a self failure. This is further illustrated in his conversation with the homeless man. Patrick ultimate see's his own fears of failure in the homeless and kills him as if to kill that part of himself. We hear constantly throughout the film that Patrick views Marcus as a dork, but everyone else, including Marcus views Patrick as a dork. This only feeds Patrick's insecurities, with more people looking down on him the further into his killing spree he descends. The death of the model corresponds similarly with her looking through him as a generic man that she makes assumptions about, going so far as to only hear what she wants to even when he's saying messed up things to her. He kills her to stop the feeling of insecurity. American Psycho takes place in New York in the 1980s, in rich apartments where doormen witness crimes every day and are paid to pay no attention. There are real world examples of murders taking place during the 80s whereby the murder did take place across multiple sections of an apartment building.
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