The postmodern society in the 80'ies was mostly based on outside values as appearance and social status. To be popular in business you had to wear the most expensive designers for example Armani or Hugo Boss, or eat on the most invaluable restaurants. The movie ''American Psycho'' directed by Mary Harron and published in 2000. This movie takes place in the postmodern society in the 80'ies and has good examples of the values that characterize the postmodern society of America in the 80'ies. .
The main character in the movie is called Patrick Bateman, and he is a illustration of the perfect postmodern man in the 80'ies. He is a 27-year-old wealthy investment banker living in the American Gardens Building. He only wears expensive designer clothes, and his circle of friends is just as wealthy as himself. His lifestyle is basically based on material accouterments. Patrick Bateman has some psychopathic issues he believes that he kills people, but it is ''just'' schizophrenia. An example of his schizophrenia could be when he opens the closet were the dead bodies used to hang, but in the end of the movie the bodies is no longer there (1:23:07-1:23:48). Already in the scene when he does his daily morning routine there is a symbol when he says: ''There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable. I simply am not there.'' (6:26-7:00).
Patrick Bateman has too different identities divided in fantasy and reality. The Patrick Bateman who kills people is fantasy. An argument for this Patrick Bateman being fantasy is when he runs trough the entire hotel building yelling to the girl he wants to kill, and no one in the hotel hears anything or another argument could be when he tells his lawyer that he has killed Paul Allen and his lawyer doesn't believe him, and says that it isn't true because he had lunch with Paul Allen twice in London 10 days ago, and walks away (1:28:30-1:29:51).