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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tim Jonze

From incel culture to the White House: American Psycho’s dark hold on modern masculinity

Patrick Bateman’s business card
Patrick Bateman’s business card. Composite: getty/Guardian Design

I have just witnessed a murder. Spattered against the white walls of the Almeida theatre are several thin streaks of blood. Underneath them a particularly gruesome-looking hand axe rests on a table. And on the other side of the room, a clue to who the perpetrator might be. Discarded next to someone’s laptop is a business card – bone-coloured, raised black lettering – bearing a familiar name: Patrick Bateman.

Him again.

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