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"[Mary] Harron emphasizes the film's [American Psycho's] feminist critique through Bateman's interrelationships with women, particularly in supposedly romantic places such as restaurants, with contant closeups on his face."
-- Karen Oughton


Source:
Oughton, Karen. "The Home, the Body and Otherness: Canadian Representations of Identity and Feminism in Mary Harron's American Psycho, Sarah Polley's Away from Her and the Soska Sisters' American Mary." In Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through, edited by Gabrielle Kelly and Cheryl Robson. Twickenham, U.K.: Supernova Books, 2014. (p. 63)