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fight club

Fight Club
¡§ What would you do if you lived a meaningless life, working for a wicked boss, feeling lost about your pointless future? And still you can¡¦t allow yourself to quit the job because you are used to being a high consumer, having luxurious taste. ¡¨ Fight Club tells you how to escape this kind of life and break away from being a capitalist slave.
Jack (Edward Norton) is a yuppie in middle crisis living in NY City but he hates his boring life and suffers from chronic insomnia. At first, he joins incurable disease counselors therapy. Through other people¡¦s pain and his pretending as an incurable patient, he can cry to exhaustion and have a sound sleep every night, but one day a woman (Helen Bonham Carter) who joins the group for the same reason--suffering from insomnia and pretending as a patient ruins his sleeping plan, and he can¡¦t sleep again.
One day, Norton¡¦s apartment full of luxury furniture caught fire. After that he hooks up with Tyler (Brad Pitt), a...

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