(Spoiler alert)

I was intrigued enough about this movie to finally watch it today. Well, through the first two-thirds of it, I kept muttering, What a load of crap! Then it got somewhat thrilling, and almost provocative, with the conscious identity dissociation. Then it ended with redemption and destruction, and I thought, What a mindfuck!

Well, that, or it was in an alien language. Now, I won't judge Palahniuk until I've read him, but the movie isn't going to bump him to anywhere near the top of my reading list. After listening to him talk about his desire to shock, and seeing this movie, it looks like the transgressive effect of his "immoderate satire" is itself the point, rather than any intended cultural commentary.

Anyways, what do I know? He's quite a cult enterprise, and I have no muscled, six-packed dissociated identities wanting to sabotage it...at least not ones that I'm conscious of...yet.

[Chuck Palahniuk | Fight Club | film | movies]

6:19:06 PM