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     Fight Club appears to be a catastrophe to Clockwork Orange (1971) for the yuppie X Generation, half of whom see their parents get a carve up and are fatherless teenagers. (The word "clockwork" is in the script) Jack (played by Edward Norton) narrates the depiction, explaining how his 1997 life of white-collar employ ment and middle- assort materialistic success bored him until he fell under the spell of Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt), who takes on part-time jobs so that he gutter engage in blemish to deal with his own identity crisis. In the early part of the film Jack has insomnia, but his physician will not give him stronger quiescency pills, urging him instead to attend alcoholics anonymous-type groups so that he will advert those with real problems. Initially, the nightly meetings provide enough emotional catharsis so that Jack can get a good night sleep. thence Marla (played by Helena Bonham Carter), another faker, starts attending the same meetings, so impotent Jack no longer enjoys the experience. Looking for something different, one night in the parking lot outside a bar Jack meets Tyler, who asks him to swig him. The exhilaration of the fight prompts them to repeat the ritual, and ultimately Jack abandons his yuppie lifestyle to get in Tylers ramshackle house (after Tyler secretly plants a bomb to demolish his condo). Others, watching the two slug it out, soon want to fight, too, whereupon Tyler organizes the Fight Club, eighter rules in all, which meets in the basement under the bar. (The eight rules appear simulate on the famous 12-step programs of the AA groups.) Interchange suitable parts in an overbureaucratized world, where everyone is employed and thus feels no compulsion to become politically active to get politicians on the ball, the clubs members belong to the working class in contrast with middle class Jack and Tyler. Fight Clubs camaraderie provides the psychological support so that they ca n revert to their own animalistic resources. unless Tyler enjoys sex (with Marla). The others seem so crude in appearance that they have obviously not been able to seek release via sex that they enjoy a nihilistic mens club, where men are topless, is a clear sign of repressed homosexuality. Only through showing muscle can they feel like men after their demasculinized postindustrial jobs. In due course, Tyler changes the Fight Club into date Mayhem, a club with fascist rules that stockpiles explosives in Tylers home preparatory to blowing up high rises.