Nitpick alert!
The Edward Norton figure isn't given a name. The refrain "I am Jack's
diseased sense of self" or whatever, derives from a Reader's Digest article
he reads where the bodily organs introduce themselves, one by one. Perhaps
the fact that everyone calls him 'Jack' says something about the (un)clarity
of the film.
I've been trying to write something about Fight Club's depiction of two star
bodies who are ultimately revealed to be 'both using the same body, but at
different times' as it says in Pahalniuk's novel.
Now, it seems, I must bite the bullet and read some Nietzsche. I'm
interested in what you say, though I don't understand it..
The novel does end with the narrator in a mental hospital. The flavour of
the last chapter is a bit like the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
where you're shown that you were wrong to think it's all over.
And regarding the film's ending -- given what's happened in the world since
the film was released, its depiction of terrorists blowing up skyscrapers is
about as horrific and confronting a conceit as I ever want to see.
YOurs, Laura
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