I don't think I really understand your question. There is a body-subject that
is identifiable in the action, but the subject-narrator's thought processes
are revealed through association with various consumer products. His
homicidal acts/fantasies (not clear which) even seem to be a version of some
pychological profile of a serial killer. He is a walking advertisement for
Madison Avenue and PSYCHOLOGY TODAY. The fury alone seems his own. I haven't
thought a lot about this--it just seemed like a good film for anyone looking
at contemporary depictions of the postmodern "subject."
Kathy Agar
fili houtman wrote:
> >
> >AMERICAN PSYCHO struck me as such a film. The subject is virtually
> >unidentifiable as a mix of brand-name constructed consumer and homicidal
> >fantasies
> >
> >Kathy Agar
> >
> >
> >
> Do not you think that it can grow in identification, the subject, when the
> 'constructed consumer and homocidal fantasies [I have not seen the film you
> refered to, but think of Minelli's Short Cuts], ', is implicated in the
> action. And when the drama is off course, poetisised.
> So that the identification do not lose the poetry of the unidentification
> virtualities cubes and materials on IT.
>
> Fili Houtman.\
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