Quote Originally Posted by DAVIDTUA View Post
my question was AGAIN *SPOILER ALERT* for those who never seen it?





1. at the end he's on the phone and hes confessing to all the multiple mass murders he committed. and the person on the phone laughs at him saying he's just joking and he must be just putting him on. now was christian bale really imagining that he did kill all those people? or was he just fantasizing? or did those murders really happen?

i never figured that out.
You're confusing two different scenes. Bateman left his lawyer a message on the phone and then at the party the guy commented on how he was putting him on.

I've never determined exactly if the stuff he did was supposed to have actually happened, but I would guess it didn't. He was a guy given in to fantasy and he was unchecked. He was a rich daddy's boy who'd had everything handed to him and his brain was just spawling because he'd had nothing meaningful in his life. Think about how the bad things ramped up in the movie. First he has the skanky prostitute and the high-class escort and then he eventually kills the skank and his friends girlfriend (dropping a chainsaw on the hoe's head, no less), he chops up the guy with an axe and then he gets into a shootout with the cops, blows them up with a magic bullet, kills the nightguard and shoots some woman on the street. And none of this was reported in the news? It is more likely that these were only thoughts in his head, although I don't understand why he could imagine killing all these people and not the gay guy who freaked him out in the restroom. So that's why I say I think it was fantasy, but I'm unsure at the end. And maybe that's the point. Maybe we're not supposed to know because HE doesn't know. He's lost his rudder and is unable to distinguish reality from the fiction of his mind. And because real or imagined, no one has stopped him, he sees no reason not to continue by movie's end.