IMO the basic problem with Fight Club is that it attempts to combine a subjective POV, an unreliable narrator describing a nonexistent character, and images that conform to the narrator's fantasy. Film makes images too physical and literal for that to work. Hitchcock complained that the book of "Psycho" cheated with sentences (not in Norman's voice) like "Mother did this," "Mother said that." FC is filled with similar outright cheats where the characters BOTH interact with either the physical world or third parties, and it has just as many loose ends, where you're left scratching your head, saying "that's odd." I have 10 or so key examples of this but I don't want to flood your post...
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Date: 2008-04-02 01:22 am (UTC)