'Crime and Punishment'. What I remember is a thoughtful young man kills an old woman in a crime with very ordinary motivations (poverty,his Mom or his Sister is sick or sometjong like that) but his philosophical pretensions elevate the crime into some kind of cosmic social experiment to trigger justice coming down on him. If I need correcting on this I'll be interested to be set straight. I read around the time of 'American Psycho's release, the book, because it got namechecked a lot in the write ups about Ellis's book, which I had read and enjoyed. But the Christian Bale movie has replaced the book in my mind at this point. I've never seen a movie of 'Crime and Punishment'.