Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Fight Club (DVD)

Fight Club (1999) starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf. Corporate drone with no name (Norton) starts going to support groups because they are the only way he can feel close to people. There, he meets Marla Singer (Bonham Carter), a woman who is also faking a variety of illnesses in order to attend the meetings. Then, on an airplane during a business trip, he meets Tyler Durden (Pitt). Durden is an outlandish character who claims to make and sell soap for a living. Together, the drone and Durden end up forming Fight Club. Things get increasingly strange from there. Fight Club mushrooms into a movement, which becomes increasingly anti-establishment, then violent. Tyler Durden becomes a legend. The ending is rather disappointing. The film features subtitles for the hearing-impaired, plus closed captions. Grade: B-

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