Me, You Madness is a dark comedy film directed by Louise Linton. The plot serves to rip-off in near ever aspect Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, but with a lame rom com subplot forced in because that’s what the book needed right? But hey guys it’s fine because the film calls out its own similarity to Ellis work but says it a female take and that women are having a moment in Hollywood right now, in perhaps one of the most obnoxious bits of voice over ever, so it’s fine. Drawing attention to how poorly written your film is makes it well written right?
This is a vanity project on the part of Linton plain and simple. Honestly the amount of sexual scenes and scenes where Linton’s character is half naked is a little off putting, if she wasn’t the director I would say it was exploitative, but as it is her and she is putting herself constantly on display like this I would say it is just desperate. Everything from the needless over sexualisation to the glib narration, that seems to think it is far more clever than it actually is, just reeks of someone saying, ‘pay attention to me’, it is sad.
Moreover, Linton’s performance in her vanity project isn’t even good: which makes it all the more pathetic. Linton can’t seem to maintain an accent for more than five seconds at any time during this film, one minute she is trying to do an English accent, then Irish then American. Make up your mind and stop wasting my time.
Moreover, the film features Ed Westwick as the male lead who has been the subject of several sexual assault accusations, so the film has that going for it: though to be fair he has not been found guilty and a court has ruled in his favour.
Overall, one of the worst, most needless films I have seen in a long time. This film feels like it was written by a twelve-year-old who was just beginning their edgy phase.
Pros.
Really none.
Cons.
The rom com subplot is lame
This reeks of a vanity project for Linton
Linton repeatedly exposes herself in various different ways to a point that it could be called exploitation if it wasn’t her as the director
It steals from American Psycho and thinks its fine because they reference it
It is incredibly vapid, and the narration is dumb, having as much intelligence as a can of beans that has been set on fire.
0/5
Reviewed by Luke
Another Millennial Reviewer 