Date & time: 7:15pm, Thursday, Jan. 22
IB Lecture hall
This week in the Female Directors series, the Film Society will screen American Psycho (2000), Mary Harron’s darkly funny and deeply unsettling take on status, masculinity, and self-invention. Set in late-1980s Manhattan, the film follows Patrick Bateman, a man obsessed with appearances, his job, his body, his routines, all while something far more disturbing lies beneath the surface.
Both satire and horror, American Psycho critiques a culture built on consumption and performance, where identity is reduced to brands, reservations, and surfaces. As Bateman’s grip on reality loosens, the film asks uncomfortable questions about violence, conformity, and what it means to be seen at all.
