There's a couple of subtle clues to make you think it's all in his head ( like when he shoots the cop cars and they explode then he looks at the gun like "wow that shouldn't have happened") but then when his secretary finds his planner filled with all of those super graphic drawings of murder it makes me think he really did it. Well, it is actually a word of Latin origin and simply translates to “Eviction” in English. Where do you go? I tend to look at the narrative as a hellish, psychological suffering for the main character. When the detectives look around her home for clues, Archer finds a pendant that harkens back to the prologue of the film. By the end of the movie, Bateman just wants to be recognized for what he had done and get the pressure off of himself. The film, with its murder mystery plotting, keeps you guessing throughout its runtime. Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? May 15, 2020. While Archer hates being away from his job, Detective Ruiney (Karl Urban), Archer’s old ally, gets involved in a brutal serial-murder investigation. His apartment was quickly painted over and re-done by the owner of the building because they did not anyone to know the truth of what had happened within; that would have decreased the value of the penthouse. The film, with its murder mystery plotting, keeps you … With each murder, the detectives start noticing that the killer intentionally leaves clues for them. I even think she said it was a mistake on her part that it came across that way. Considering this, he deduces that the murderer had previously killed someone else before the presumed first victim. In the corner, he spots a little boy, sitting there all disturbed by his father’s suicide. All images property of their respective owners. The pendant was the same as the one that Archer had spotted in the car of a speeding driver in the prologue of the movie. As a result, the detectives helplessly watch all of his victims die. But since he was in prison, his killing spree was broken right after the first murder. When Archer later takes a closer look at the Ruiney’s wife’s case, he realizes that she was the first victim of the murderer. It was in his head. Is he really even Patrick Bateman? I would argue that it is this frustration which drives a lot of his violent impulses. Implication is that the murders were in his head and he just hallucinates and fantasizes all these things. Dhruv Sharma. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, News & Discussion about Major Motion Pictures, Press J to jump to the feed. It’s up to the viewer, there is evidence to both sides. Is it a commentary on how fucked up society is and how everyone's so concerned with their own wellbeing that they're willing to look the other way on a serial killer so as not to disrupt their lives? He is trapped, with only an illusion of being able to impact the world around him. Were they trying to imply she lived to be 14? This flashback reveals that the killer is the young boy whose father had committed suicide. So here’s an explainer for everything that goes on in the movie. This explains that the boy’s father had killed himself after receiving an eviction notice. This hangman seems to have ten letters, with the fourth one being an “A.” Now it’s very likely that this will again be a Latin word, so one cannot surely predict what it is. Written and directed by Wilson Coneybeare, American Hangman follows in the footsteps of many other recent movies that use social media and the internet to demonstrate society's cynicism, selfishness, and apathy -- and it can be a bit much. ‘Hangman’ begins with the introduction of a retired police detective Archer (Al Pacino). It could really be a book made of his imagination and how the murders would have gone in his mind. In his head, he was simply reliving his childhood memory, where his father committed suicide after receiving the eviction notice. This can be explained by recalling the scene where Archer finds a skull pendant in Christi’s home. Apparently, according to the author, the film portrays the killings to be in his head. Using this pendant, he is able to deduce who the killer is.