This paper focuses on analyzing hedonism practices shown in American Psycho (2000) movie, specifically shown by the main character, Patrick Bateman. Some facts and proof found in the movie made hedonism practices as a proper problem to discuss in this paper.
Main character of American Psycho movie, Patrick Bateman, is the main object of this study. Since the data in this paper is non-numerical data, the right fit method used in this paper is descriptive qualitative method. Methods used to analyze the data in the movie were: watching the movie, reading the movie script, identifying the data, classifying the data, and reducing the data.
Based on the references used for analyzing the movie, there are six types of hedonism: (1) folk hedonism, (2) value and prudential hedonism, (3) motivational hedonism, (4) normative hedonism, (5) egoistic hedonism, and (6) hedonistic utilitarianism. The study in this paper finds that some of hedonism practices are shown by the main character of American Psycho (2000) movie, Patrick Bateman, such as:
(1) folk hedonism, (2) value and prudential hedonism, and (3) egoistic hedonism. Those three hedonistic lifestyles in the end affect Bateman’s behavior. One of the behaviors that is good to be underlined is the tendency to buy luxury stuff in order to become the center of attention.
Keywords: hedonism, american psycho, hedonistic lifestyle