Word: mayhemic
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Fight Club tries to turn the same self-referential tricks as Smith's movies as an antidote to the violence of yuppie angst. The Clockwork Orange-esque rejoicing in mayhem that characterizes so much of the movie is contrasted with its many self-referential moments (without giving too much away...): the bizarre walk through the IKEA catalog; the moment when movie projectionist Tyler Durden, discussing the "change filmstrip" blip that appears on movie screens, points to the one on the screen of the movie he is in; and a final revelation about the relationship between Durden and the narrator. Unfortunately...
...neat corner of approvals or disapprovals. The plot in a nutshell: Norton, disillusioned with his yuppiedom, finds solace in beating Brad Pitt to a bloody pulp (and vice versa). Suddenly, fighting becomes a way for men to unleash their anger without limits or consequence. But, of course, mayhem ensues. It's a David Fincher flick; he's one of my favorite directors because he never gives you an "easy" movie. Seven, of course, spooked its way to the top of the box office but I still think 1995's The Game is a better movie--it's artistic...
...have led the revolution that's being celebrated with a weeklong holiday, but China has Deng to thank for turning it into an economic powerhouse. Following the disastrous famine that accompanied Mao's "Great Leap Forward" attempt to force the pace of industrialization in the '50s and the fratricidal mayhem of the Cultural Revolution, Deng quietly laid Mao's legacy to rest following the Great Leader's death in 1976. Deng's "long march" was down the road to capitalism. And with 20 years of an astonishing average annual growth rate of close to 10 percent - over the last decade...
...collapsed. In fact, President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been in Jakarta the day before Indonesian troops went in. With South Vietnam having collapsed only eight months earlier, Washington wasn't about to see another Asian domino fall to the communists. The murder and mayhem wrought by the Indonesian forces may have been distasteful, but Indonesia had been the anchor of Western interests in Asia. So East Timor had to wait for the end of the Cold War and then some before democracy could be allowed to take its course...
...victims and the victims they make of each other. There are no shock cuts to the monster. In fact, no visible monster! Because the audience sees only what the camera does. At night it is sometimes pitch-black; for excruciating minutes, we are literally in the dark. The physical mayhem is limited to one conk on the head. There's no slashing--except of everything extraneous to the creation of psychological disorder. Blair Witch tweaks Mies van der Rohe's dictum into "Less is morbid" and makes the viewer collaborate actively in both the scenario and the scariness. Says Sanchez...