The American Psycho title sequence begins with parallel music to drops of a red substance that the audience would assume is blood. At this point the soundtrack is quite slow, and seemingly lacks any kind of emotion so it is difficult to establish at this point what the mood and atmosphere of the sequence is. However not knowing also creates suspense which is conventional of a thriller film and it also becomes a little unnerving for the audience. As the sequence progresses the soundtrack begins to hasten and transitions into a classical melody associated with quite high class citizens and posh restaurants. At this point the sequence has cut to a shot of the red substance running onto a plate of food which creates narrative enigma as the dripping of the red substance originally gave the impression of blood especially when the audience saw a shot of them landing in little splats whilst they were introduced to the title of the film 'American Psycho'.
The movements of the knife when the meat is being cut are quite rapid and tough. Being so hard-hitting the knife almost becomes quite murderous which connotes, quite visually, the idea of something or someone being stabbed or murdered, which is conventional of a crime film. The Mise-en-scene emphasizes this further by having a continuous use of the colour red from beginning to end starting with the red drops and continuing when there is the red sauce on the plate with the red raspberries.
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