Leatherface Dianetics?
It's interesting how this film creates offbeat views on the use of deadly weapons/tools that a certain psycho may use to create his special 'reign of hell on Earth.'
Christian Bale is perfect as the double-faced psychotic American Wall Street bureaucrat Patrick Bateman, a sharp-minded yuppie with a deranged flair for murder and mayhem and a perfect sense of police evasion.
In one scene, Bateman draws out a chainsaw to chase a trapped prostitute who is trying to get away from him after she has realized that the handsome rich stockbroker is actually a killer.
Bateman's use of the chainsaw invokes the 'spirit' of Leatherface (the iconic fictional chainsaw-wielding cannibal from the cult-favorite American horror film series The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). Bateman's bold and maniacal choice to use the chainsaw reminds us that pure insanity lurks behind the veil of cosmopolitan traffic.
In another scene, Bateman is talking with an older woman after snooping around the apartment associated with one of his more popular victims, an ethically-perverted male co-worker named Paul Allen (played bitingly by Jared Leto). As Bateman avoids any suspicion (with criminal activity) with this older woman, we get the sense that his use of tools/weapons reflects his deviation from civilization.
Was Leatherface somehow psychologically 'scarred'? This is the sort of Freudian question the film-director Mary Harron wisely avoids to spell-out in her swift adaptation of the equally non-Freudian Bret Easton Ellis novel about American evil.
If we are to believe that Bateman could, in fact, be a 'real-world' Leatherface, then we must also digest the possibility that Wall Street is filled with 'eyeglass-wearing conspirators.'
{paraphrased/translated dialogue below}
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BATEMAN: I like to dissect girls.
ALLEN: Do you tan? You should look into a tanning-bed!
BATEMAN: How'd you get that lucrative company contract?
ALLEN: If I told you that 'secret,' you'd be dead (ha-ha)!
BATEMAN: Do you like rock-and-roll?
ALLEN: It's ok. I'm drunk.
BATEMAN: Hey Paul!!!!
ALLEN: No!
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Leatherface:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherface