53. Imperial Bedrooms
by bret easton ellis
sequel to less than zero. dark, paranoid questions left unanswered. or questions that don’t require answers. christmas trees, vodka, names. you couldn’t possibly know. youth as a place you don’t belong. texting, texting, texting. technology interrupts everything. sped through the end to get to the horror faster.
“They had made a movie about us. The movie was based on a book written by someone we knew. The book was a simple thing about four weeks in the city we grew up in and for the most part was an accurate portrayal. It was labeled fiction but only a few details had been altered and our names weren’t changed and there was nothing in it that hadn’t actually happened.”
“everything she says is an ocean of signals.”
“What keeps me interested - and it always does - is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?”
“This isn’t a script…It’s not going to add up. Not everything’s going to come together in the third act.”
“What you really want to be doesn’t exist.”
