American Psycho is excellent though, if someone walks out of that film thinking Bateman is a cool guy then there's probably not much hope for them
American Psycho is excellent though, if someone walks out of that film thinking Bateman is a cool guy then there's probably not much hope for them
I'd say, generously, that half of these characterizations are about male insecurity.
American Psycho/WoWS aren't about male insecurity, but about gleeful and unchallenged psychopathy of the financier class
Drive isn't really about much but about being cool, but FWIW the director described the principal character as a manifestation of God (I know, death of the author and all, but if there's another good interpretation you gotta make the argument first)
If I'm being more critical I'd say insecurity doesn't really describe Travis Bickle or Arthur Fleck either, unless we're talking about a broader sense of being abandoned by society