It is working American Beauty-Susan Faludi territory, that illiberal, impious, inarticulate fringe that threatens the smug American center with an anger that cannot explain itself, can act out its frustrations only in inexplicable violence.
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Fight Club
Overview
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Director and cast
- David Fincher Director
- Edward Norton as Narrator
- Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden
- Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer
- Meat Loaf as Robert Paulson
- Jared Leto as Angel Face
- Zach Grenier as Richard Chesler (Regional Manager)
- Holt McCallany as The Mechanic
- Eion Bailey as Ricky
- Richmond Arquette as Intern at Hospital
- David Andrews as Thomas at Remaining Men Together
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Blistering, hallucinatory, often brilliant, the film by David Fincher is a combination punch of social satire and sociopathology.
Fight Club is an arresting, eventually appalling excursion into social satire by way of punishing violence.
We're meant to take the male bonding and the blood rituals as a protest against the sterility of corporate life and modern design, but Fincher's sadomasochistic kicks overwhelm any possible social critique.
This is American self-absorption at its finest.
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