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The story was adapted into alfred hitchcocks seminal 1960 film of the same name, and was loosely adapted into the bates motel television series. How does the movie american psycho differ from the book. Now that american psycho, which is the subject of this months guardian book club, has become an established feature of the literary landscape and is generally acknowledged as a modern. The novelists function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture. It is the story about the archetypal 80s businessman. American psycho is a film about a man who is unsure about his identity. In american psycho, bret easton ellis explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or another.
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