Excellent and entertaining film, just saw it for a second time and the acting is supurb. The first time I was a bit in awe and didn't get it til years after when I talked about it to my son-in-law. The book might have said more, but the film portrayed Patrick's character as an obsessive, who couldn't bear to get a stain on his table let alone blood stains all over his flat. As for the rapes, he struck me as a man who probably couldn't do it at all let alone with two experiences prostitutes. The way he looked at himself in the mirror when doing the act was a scream, and exactly how he looked in the shower when using his smellies. Also he was engaged to a woman he never took out and having an affair with another who was too stoned to have sex at all.
The ending seemed to suggest how invisible the stockbrokers are to the lawyers, who see them as cash cows. You all look the same to me unless you are bringing me business.
His co-workers got a tad pious when he told the joke about the woman's head on a stake but I couldn't help thinking they were equally as misogynistic.
The bit about the calling cards was hilarious, they were identical, but there's not much you can put on such a card.
My favourite part was when he went to the flat of the man he'd just killed to pack his bag and leave the message. I can't remember the exact words but Chris Bale looks out of his window and says that he is worried, to all intents and purposes he was worried about being seen by someone. Instead it was because the man's flat was worth more money than his. I'm still laughing at that bit now, it's a classic line.
The gore scenes were daft and the rape and killings more implied than actual but I know most of my women friends wouldn't like it, and understand why.
A friend said to me once how the Thatcher era had destroyed the psyche of the British people. I think she was right as we are all individuals now, and Chris Bale brought this home beautifully. Anti-social media has made it worse but we are reliving the 1980 though the stakes are higher as there are even more assets gambled on the stock market.