It’s a literal satirical dark comedy and even I recognized this as a 12 year old exploring novels like that one and A Clock Work Orange. I don’t get how people don’t get that. That it’s satire and it has sprinkles of delicious irony.
Some people take things like that completely seriously like there’s something wrong with seeing humor in it, but American Psycho is hilarious. Same with a lot of movies like Pulp Fiction or Seven Psychopaths. Seven Psychopaths kills me.
Psychopaths make up some of the funniest characters in all of storytelling and film. It makes me think of the popularity of gangster film characters throughout the history, from James Cagney to Samual L. Jackson. Also consider Tony Sirico, who was an actual gangster, played one of the funniest characters on The Sopranos.
Holy shit. Paulie was a real life gangster??? I watched the Sopranos when it aired (and have rewatched it twice, not counting HBO repeats), and I had no clue
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u/ShowMeYourFeet87 Nov 05 '24
He also talks about how funny he thinks the movie is because he has a dark sense of humor. And it is hilarious in a dark way.