Fight Club

David Fincher / Palahniuk · 1999 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

An insomniac product recall specialist who can feel nothing falls in with Tyler Durden, a soap salesman with a settled view about property and pain. The two start a basement club where men fight each other bare-knuckle, and Tyler turns it into something with cells, orders and homework. The shadow-self as liberator and destroyer at once.

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Lineage

• ↑ The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  R. L. Stevenson · 1886 CE · Novel — prefigures this

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