![]() ![]() ![]() "The critical reaction was polarized," said Edward Norton, who plays the film's nameless narrator, "but the negative half of that was as vituperative as anything I've ever been a part of." In that Times piece, Lim dubbed "Fight Club" "the defining cult movie of our time."īack in 1999, I described it as "a grim fairy tale for adults, a consumerist revenge fantasy, a portrait of a disintegrating personality, and, for all its hyper-active stylization, an astonishingly vivid portrait of the berserk materialist wasteland in which (like it or not) billions of city dwellers live today." (It can also be seen, in retrospect, as a prescient 9/11 nightmare.) Some older audiences prefer darker material in conventional forms they "really truly want nothing more than to watch Hilary Swank strive and suffer and eventually die - beaten to a pulp, riddled with cancer, or smashed in a plane crash." "People get scared, not just of violence and mortality, but viewers are terrified of how they can no longer relate to the evolving culture," "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk told Dennis Lim recently in the New York Times: ![]()
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