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Beyond Despair

Tired plotlines pummel Fight Club

Comments (0) By Gregory Weinkauf Thursday, Oct 14 1999
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Bonham Carter and Norton wallow in Gen X distress.
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Bonham Carter and Norton wallow in Gen X distress.

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If our culture is based on hideous lies, then catharsis is indeed part of the antidote, but are we really expected to buy dumb degradation as transcendence? What's disappointing about Fight Club is its unyielding focus on disintegration; to work, there must be something besides hollow nothingness under all the destruction. "Artists" like Fincher may wish to consider getting over themselves sometime in the near future, for bludgeoning us with disintegration becomes tedious and predictable, prompting a quote straight from Norton's dialogue: "I am Jack's complete lack of surprise."

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