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    Posted: 04-Nov-2011 at 21:39
The film/ novel Fight Club was brought up in another thread, some liking a great deal, others, not so much.

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Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk
The book follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, he finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. An encounter with a fellow "tourist" Marla drives him back into insomnia until he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psycotherapy.

With a little bit of Nietzche, and a little bit of Taoism, some have called Fight Club a philosophical treatise on the 80s and 90s. Others see the satirical indictment of consumerism that is slowly eating away at "manhood" as the central theme of the story, while others still, see it as nothing more than a form of "violent pornography", that will set some of societies more unstable people, on a course of self-destruction. What do you think?
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  Quote tjadams Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04-Nov-2011 at 22:05

Apologies to the fans of this, but it is the worst film I've ever seen in my life.

I've never left a theater before, and my knees buckled a few times on this one, but 

I staid till the end. I just did not enjoy this movie at all. Zero.

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