American Psycho describes, in a very ironic way, a society that is deformed by the emphasis on the flesh and the material, where people care more about what you wear than what you do or what you are thinking, and what you just bought. More than you just killed. Like the hero's thought at the end of the play, 'the inside doesn't matter', this society does not depend on a person's thoughts and character, but on what brand of clothes he wears and which barbershop he goes to to define a person; thus Paul Allen mistook Patrick for Marcus in part which led to Allen's disappearance investigation; men also emphasized appearance over character when discussing women.
The male protagonist is a psychopath, and his psychopath is parallel to the social pathology, so the two live in peace. As a serious murderer, he can be calm and relaxed, chatting and laughing. On another level, the male protagonist is indeed an insight into social ills. When everyone in the society is wearing a mask to live as a symbol, the body is empty; when the mask is removed (the image is like the moment when he tore off the mask), Patrick has a real heart - although it is a bloodthirsty fetish hobbies and uncontrollable desire to kill. His truth leaks through the emptiness of society, he realizes that many social problems are just formalities and politeness, and no one really cares, so he always talks about the phrase 'return some videotapes' and uses absurd The sameness exposes all kinds of prevarication and coping. He is like a probe of the bottom line of society's degeneration, and his more serious murders and even blatant confessions are ignored by the society, accompanied by his surprise. He said that his lingering and stabbing pain and sin had nowhere to be released, that it was in the abyss of society, the desperate cry of a conscience—the conscience of a murderous maniac. In the end Patrick was the only one who cared from the heart, he said to torture everyone with his pain, maybe it was also his desire to transmit and wake up the tingling he felt in his soul to the numb people around him- ---they have no soul, so he turned this into a physical sting with extreme violence, conveying it in their way.
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