After rewatching, about three paragraphs of hypothesis:
1. The street shooting after cat feeding the cash machine is undoubtedly false. This is the presentation of Patrick Bateman's mental illness.
2. A series of killings in Paul's apartment is real (the film language may use the expression of the intersection of reality and reality, not shown temporarily). Therefore, Paul Allen's family mistakenly believed that Paul committed the follow-up and sold the apartment. Regarding the crime substitution between Patrick, Paul, and Marcus, it was paved in the only scene where the three of them appeared (tortoiseshell glasses + hairstyle, the appearance of the three is extremely similar at this time); the detective considers the person who met last before Paul disappeared. It was Marcus, which allowed Patrick to get rid of the suggestion in the suspected restaurant scene. It is worth noting that in several scenes of getting rid of suspicion, Patrick has been calling himself by someone else's name. This is my speculation on the plot level.
3. The killing of Paul is suspicious, and tends to be false, for two reasons: 1. At the end, lawyer Carnes said that he had met with Paul in London, so Paul’s death was a fiction; 2. At the same end, Carnes thought that Patrick had no guts to commit a crime. , And said: Bateman's such a bloody ass-kisser...that I couldn't fully appreciate it. (The novel) side note, in fact, most of the Wall Street elite images shown in the movie are Patrick’s narcissism-he is only The tramp who can't eat enough food and the villain who loses his resistance after taking medicine. At this point, the truth about Patrick Bateman's personality level is at the bottom.
The reason for this doubt is that Paul's trip to London and the source of the apartment keys seem to lack explanation. Carnes and Paul’s meal may be another confusion of Carnes with this group of Wall Street elites. From the beginning to the end, the film carries out a mockery of consumerism. These cookie-cutter skins that wandered at the end of the Wall Street boom in the 1980s were superficial, indifferent, and vain, and knew nothing about the next great collapse (the last act of Reagan’s 87 speech ).
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