Cultural_Election118 t1_j66q05g wrote on January 28, 2023 at 2:34 AM

Reply to comment by OutWithCamera in What is the meaning of the depth Patrick Bateman goes into about music in American Psycho? by ChairmanUzamaoki

> scenes of his home were annotated like an IKEA catalog.

Wasn't that Fight Club?

joshuastar t1_j673in7 wrote on January 28, 2023 at 4:29 AM

yes. the “Ikea Nesting Instinct.”

OutWithCamera t1_j66qnts wrote on January 28, 2023 at 2:39 AM

Haha entirely probable! Oops

OutWithCamera t1_j69kfff wrote on January 28, 2023 at 6:59 PM

I have conflated this aspect of both these movies before, I think I first watched both about the same time and the obsession with the material world in each is kind of striking to me, combined with the way the movies concluded that left the viewer (in my case anyway) wondering what was real and what was only in the MC's heads.