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Saw the movie “Fight Club” when it came out in the theaters and didn’t really remember much about it except that I was too tired to concentrate. Just watched it on Amazon Prime and am really impressed by how it discusses many parts of society that I grew up in including Children of Divorce. Am hoping to read the book by Chuck Palahniuk but am not reading much these days.
In the movie, there’s the Edward Norton character who is known as The Narrator and then there is the Brad Pitt character whose name I forgot.
Probably most people know that there is a lot of blood, guts and gore as men come to terms with the lack of feeling in their lives. Norton’s character begins by following the correct path in life (college, job, condo, clothing and household goods) but then he hits a wall with feelings and relationships. He starts going to support groups as a cure for his insomnia. After a business meeting he meets the Brad Pitt character on a plane. Pitt makes and sells soap and when this is discussed there is an extra comment about how the same ingredients that are used to make soap are used to make bombs. Norton goes home to find that his condominium has blown up and he moves into an abandoned home with Pitt. They begin to fight and feel a great release from it. Then they attract a lot of other guys who want to fight as well and end up fighting against everything in the establishment. And then the Edward Norton character slowly makes some realizations about himself and has to struggle with himself. And then there is a girlfriend who is difficult to integrate into the story.
They have a conversation about their childhoods and most of the conversation is Child of Divorce stuff. The Norton character was 6 when his parents divorced.
“We were a generation raised by women.”
“Can’t get married.”
“I am a 30 year old boy.”
“The longing for Fathers was a term I heard a lot.”
This is a description of author Palahniuk’s childhood from Wikipedia: “His parents separated when he was 14 and subsequently divorced, often leaving him and his three siblings to live with their maternal grandparents at their cattle ranch in eastern Washington.[6] “
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