Things spiral out of control when Tyler recruits Fight Club members into Project Mayhem, an anti-consumerist, quasi-terrorist group. This attracts attention and leads to the creation of an underground fight club – “The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club” – where men can fight each other until one of them has had enough. When our guy's apartment and his belongings are destroyed in an explosion, he moves in with Tyler, and the two end up having a fistfight in the parking lot of a bar. Then, on a flight back from a business trip, he meets soap salesman Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), who tells him he is trapped by consumerism (“the things you own end up owning you”). He goes to support groups for problems such as alcoholism and cancer, none of which he has, hoping it will give him some sort of therapeutic relief, and is alarmed when another fake sufferer, Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), starts appearing at the same groups. The iconic movie stars Edward Norton as a man who suffers from chronic insomnia and is dissatisfied with his job and his life. (Aug.Director David Fincher’s acclaimed 1999 movie adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s controversial novel Fight Club is well known for its shocking twist, which changes the way you view the movie (and makes it incredibly tempting to watch it a second time as soon as the end credits roll).
Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk's utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book.
Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator's condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world's tallest building. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk's apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart.
0 kommentar(er)
