I'm pretty sure something like 95%+ of the American Psycho fandom is doing it with five zillion layers of irony.
This has no relevance but it's an absolutely amazing thing about this movie that I never get to share. In the questioning scene right after Paul Allen's death, the director Mary Harron, who also co-wrote the screenplay and thus was able to fine-tune this to perfection, did the entire scene three times over, each one having the actor playing the detective told to act in a different way.
In the first set, he's just asking Bateman questions because it's known he spoke to Paul Allen shortly before his death, and he has no preconceptions about what Bateman's involvement might be.
In the second set, he thinks Bateman's did it.
In the third set, he knows Bateman did it.
She then split up those three sets and, in the movie itself, spliced the scene together with moments from all three. Bateman is losing his mind, and even though the movie isn't from his POV we're being taken on that same ride through the editing, as we see the detective change his demeanor and tone from moment to moment with no rhyme or reason whatsoever-because there is none. Bateman's paranoia is sometimes showing him a false version of reality where he's under intense suspicion, or maybe his ego is sometimes showing him a false version of reality where nobody suspects a thing. It's absolutely genius and I had to say it at least once.
