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David Fincher's Adaptation Of Fight Club
The first rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club. I guess we’re about to break that rule. In David Fincher's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's nihilistic novel, Fight Club, an unnamed insomniac narrator (Edward Norton). On a plane, he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), an anarchist soap salesman who he starts and underground fight club with. The fraternity consists of strict rules, fights and vandalization that evolves into so much more. Their perfect partnership stains when Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, attracts Tyler's attention.
By the film’s ending, the narrators finds himself unhappy with the new direction their brotherhood is taking, and confronts Tyler. But here's the catch: the narrator is

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