American Psycho (2000)

The film presents extremely graphic violence: axe murders, torture, dismemberment, and sexual sadism depicted with disturbing detail. The sexual content is equally explicit, with full nudity and orgiastic scenes. Although presented as a satire of 1980s materialism, its approach is profoundly nihilistic: it constructs a world where the human being is reduced to mere surface, where everything is interchangeable, and nothing holds real moral consequences. The final ambiguity (did any of this happen? did anyone notice?) is not a judgment on the evil depicted, but rather the conclusion that nothing matters. Unlike classical satire, which condemns vice through contrast, this work concludes that there is no good or evil, only emptiness. The problem is not that it depicts decadence — which is legitimate in a satire — but that it offers nihilism as the sole recourse. There is no redemption, no growth, there is nothing to indicate that the horror depicted is truly horrible beyond its aesthetic impact. For adults with an extremely well-formed philosophical discernment. Not recommended.