American Psycho Ending Explained: What Really Happened?
American Psycho’s ending explains little and leaves a lot to the viewer’s imagination, so how many victims (if any) did Patrick Bateman actually kill, how much of the movie takes place in his unhinged mind, and what was the point? Released in 2000, American Psycho may be a cult classic, but one thing that Mary Harron’s Bret Easton Ellis adaptation is not is easy to decipher. Like the infamous novel it's based on, American Psycho's ending explains little and makes a point of leaving its events ambiguous during the discomfiting, blackly comic ending, demystifying none of its strange and seemingly contradictory occurrences; and American Psycho's meaning is no less elusive.
Starring a young Christian Bale (who famously credited Bateman’s glassy, emotionless charm to a Tom Cruise impression), American Psycho sees a young Wall Street banker engage in increasingly shocking, grotesque misdeeds throughout the movie while still attending his day job and finding time for social events. Early on in American Psycho, the revelation of Bateman's shocking crimes appears to be the crux of the movie—this seemingly straight-laced character is hiding a secret second life of debauchery and brutality and has hidden this fact from everyone around him. However, as American Psycho's ending explains, things are more complicated than they seem.
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By the midpoint of American Psycho, Bateman has begun attracting attention to his crimes by killing off his colleague Paul Allen. Jared Leto’s brief horror movie appearance as the character ends with him receiving an ax through the skull, and soon after this, a private investigator begins questioning Bateman about Allen's apparent disappearance. Once again,
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