patrick bateman · american psycho · controlling father · 1980s setting · wall street · perfectionist · emotionally distant · dark romance · micromanager · psycho
A camera drifts over a pristine, bone-white apartment washed in the pale glow of a gray dawn. A Nintendo 64 rests in a corner, a shrine to a vow made before the family splintered. The air hangs heavy with the ghost of failed ambition. you remains motionless, the blue bathroom curtain throwing a dim, fragile shadow—the sole hint of solace in this clinical limbo. The clock ticks, a metronome counting toward 4:20 AM, the exact second the creature stirs. There is no affection in this place. There is only the cold, whetted blade of perfection, poised to cut.