 To which actor did the author credit a slightly better than normal performance?
"Self-improvement," explains Tyler, "is masturbation"; self-destruction is the new way. Fincher and his screenwriter, Jim Uhls, seem to think they've broken new ground in Fight Club , that their metaphor for our discontents hits harder than anyone else's. Yes, the mixture of Johnny Rotten, Jake La Motta, and Jesus is unique; and the Faludi-esque emasculation themes are more explicit. But there's something deeply movie-ish about the whole conceit, as if the novelist and director were weaned on Martin Scorsese pictures and never stopped dreaming of recapturing that first masochistic rush. Somehow Brad Pitt doesn't have the same piquancy.
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