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I just watched Anger Management and I was reminded of Fight Club. The treatment of a socially repressed urbanite sissy in the former movie was more appropriate. A couple weeks' worth of total humiliation to get him roused just enough to stand up and be a man. Now that was funny.
What you didn't get if felt Fight Club stirred your soul: 1) If you in any way sympathized with Edward Norton's character, then this film was actually making fun of you. You are expressing your rage vicariously through a movie about a guy expressing his rage through an alternate personality. And don't blow your horn at me, or I will really break your nose. 2) It's not anarchy if it's got a motive, like the characters' lamely trying to assert their manhood. We call that pathetic and sad, like when some office worker or loser high school kid goes nuts and starts shooting at his peers. That's the reality, not this stupid attempt to make light of it. 3) No, I didn't read the book, and I shouldn't have to. Why would I want to, for that matter? John Grisham books are totally intolerable, but I can just manage to stomach the movies adapted form them. Books are different than the movies based on them. Live with it. 4) The multiple, obvious product plugs were actually mutiple, obvious product plugs, not satire on multiple, obvious product plugs. How's that for hypocrisy? 5) If this movie made you feel smart, that you somehow got something that noone else did, you're not, and you don't understand anything. The rest of us got it, too, but what we took away from this movie was a reaffirmation of how retarded some people are. 6) Go camping, for heaven's sakes. You'll feel better about yourself, get some fresh air, and hopefully realize that your Nintendo is what has been keeping you so intently focused on the dork side of human existence.
I'm sorry, but I think humankind great and wonderful people capable of great good and genius. Those who set out on great stupidity, laziness, and weakness ought to be set up to be despised and spat at, or better still, totally ignored. Like Hemingway's treatment of the character Robert Cohn in "The Sun Also Rises." Of course, Hemingway proved how tough he himself was in the end, didn't he. Maybe it is all hopeless.
Atticus Finch, please.
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