The sun's out at last, just in time to find this week's film blogs variously fixated with fist-fights, depression and suicide. All smiles ... Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in Fight Club. Photo: 20th Century Fox While I'm still not certain of the time that needs to elapse before the cutting edge works its way through passé and finally emerges as retro, the latest once-white hot cultural relic to do so looks to be Fight Club. Already over the course of the summer, much of its vague nihilistic charge has been re-purposed in the painfully thick Wanted; now, it's also the subject of a nostalgic tribute from Scanners' Jim Emerson, one notable not least for an unusual twist - citing the film as having helped ease his clinical depression, leaving him "convulsed with laughter [at seeing] the truth of my own inner experience reflected...
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