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Article: A Fistful of Darkness: David Fincher's bleak and angry 'Fight Club' wants to disturb you--but it may be trying a little too hard.(MOVIES)(Arts and Entertainment)(Review) (movie reviews) (movie reviews) (movie reviews)
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- Newsweek
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- October 18, 1999
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Jack (Edward Norton), the narrator of David Fincher's seriously wacked-out "Fight Club," is an insomniac wage slave so alienated from his life he takes to frequenting support groups. He starts with Men's Testicular Cancer. Sobbing in the arms of men whose afflictions he pretends to share, he finds a temporary freedom by abandoning all hope. Soon he's become a recovery-group addict. Every night he finds a different group--sickle-cell therapy, bowel cancer--until his quest is spoiled by the presence of another "tourist" like himself, the ashen-faced, chain-smoking Marla (Helena Bonham Carter). How can he cry with another faker in the room?
So begins, promisingly ...
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