To be honest, I think he just liked the look of that scene where Bateman kills Paul Allen…with the clean, shiny apartment all covered up in case of any bloodspilling. I read that MTV article and Kanye says he’s Patrick Bateman on this album, and I also think he threw in that line “you know at the end of that movie nobody got killed” so he could simultaneously align and distance him self with the character.

In the case of “Love Lockdown,”, Kanye distances himself from the violence of American Psycho by passing it off as imaginary, but then simultaneously embraces it by appropriating the imagery from that same film. His words are saying one thing (he likes the “clean aesthetic”, that’s all), but the video says another – just like you can’t hear the theme from Jaws without thinking of a person being attacked by a shark, you can’t see an apartment that resembles Patrick Bateman’s without thinking of the bloody events that shown in the film.

kanye’s a dumbass. the director has said that christian bale’s character killed every one of the people, and that those scenes are not “daydreams.” it was all real.

Maybe Kanye’s a Deconstructionist and does not give any weight to authorial intent. By his own analysis, he apparently recognizes that there are enough signifiers encoded into the film to cast doubt on a literal interpretation of the narrative.