Seeing Dafoe transition from carefree to authoritative without cue makes his scenes with Bale some of the film’s most tensely humorous. The result is a rotating display of the film’s ranging tones. Harron then spliced the footage and arranged it in a new order, making it difficult to discern Kimball's stance on Bateman. Dafoe was directed to act as if Kimball knew Bateman was guilty, again as diligently suspicious, and finally as entirely oblivious. Harron had directed Dafoe to deliver his lines three times, each from a different perspective. What makes this seemingly uniform performance from Dafoe unique, is in Harron’s attentive and sharp directing. His notes guide him to the guilty Patrick Bateman, played by Bale. Kimball is introduced as the lead investigator in a murder case. Amongst Chloë Sevigny, Jared Leto, and a deranged performance from Christian Bale, Dafoe appears as off-kilter detective Donald Kimball in this psychological satire. Mary Harron’s adaptation of American Psycho - based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name - is known for many things, such as the film’s cast of well-known stars.
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