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Every week. Tyler gave the rules
that he and I decided. Gentlemen,

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Welcome to fight club. The first
rule of fight club is you do not

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talk about fight club. Second rule
of fight club is you do not talk

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about fight club. Third rule of
fight club. Someone yell stopped, goes

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limp taps out, the fight is
over. Fourth rule, only two guys

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to fight. Fitth rule, one
fight at a time fellas. Sixth rule,

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no shirts, no shoes. Seventh
rule, fights will go on as

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long as they have to. And
the eighth and final rule, if this

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is your first night of fight club, you have to fight this kid from

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work. Ricky couldn't remember whether you
ordered pens with blue ink or black,

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But Ricky was a god for ten
minutes when he trounced the major d of

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a local food court. Sometimes all
you can hear where the flat hard packing

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sounds, everybody yelling for the wet
choke. When someone caught their breath and

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sprayed. You weren't alive anywhere like
you were there. But fight club only

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exists in the hours between when fight
club starts and when fight club ends.

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Even if I could tell someone they
had a good fight, I wouldn't be

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talking to the same man who you
were in fight clubs, not who you

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were in the rest of the world. A guy came to fight Club for

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the first time. His ass was
a lot of cookie dough. After a

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few weeks, he was carved out
of wood. I have stated many times

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on this program that I feel nineteen
ninety nine is the greatest year in the

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history of cinema. All genres of
film were represented strongly. These films were

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great from top to bottom, with
top notch direction, brilliant writing, amazing

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performances, and even mesmerizing soundtracks.
There is one film that defies genres explanation

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into this day has people still trying
to decipher what it all meant. That

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ambiguity is what leads to its greatness. Directed by David Fincher, based off

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the nineteen ninety six novel by Chuck
Plank, Fight Club introduces us to a

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nameless man simply known as the Narrator
Edward Norton in his breakout role, a

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man that is extremely disenchanted with his
life. That is until he meets a

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man named Tyler Durden played by Brad
Pitt, a man that, by bringing

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the Narrator into his dark world,
brightens his life and empowers him. The

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film also stars Helena Bottom, Carter, and the late Meet Loaf a Day

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in a memorable role. Our first
clip was Dirten stating the famous rules of

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fight Club. Our next two clips
set the stage for the changes that come

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to the narrator. First, he
goes over his life that is wrought with

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insomnia and mindless home shopping. What
makes this scene so great is we hear

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the hopelessness and despair in Norton's voice. And then, on a business flight

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for his meaning old job, his
life changes when he meets Tyler Dirting.

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For six months, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't see, I couldn't sleep

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with insomnia. Nothing's real, everything's
far away. Everything's a copy of a

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copy of a copy. When deep
space exploration ramps up, it'll be the

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corporations that name everything. The IBM
Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, planets,

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Starbucks. I need you have a
town a little more. This week,

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we guys have red flags to cover. It must have been tuesday.

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He was wearing his corn flower blue
tie. You want me to deprioritize my

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current reports until you guys have a
status upgrade. Make these your primary action

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items. He's your flighte coupons.
Call me from the road if there's any

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snacks. He was full of pet
must have had his Grande latte enema.

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Like so many others. I had
been come a slave to the ikea nesting

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instant. Yes, I'd like to
order the Eric Caring dust ruffles. If

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I saw something clever, like a
little coffee table in the shape of a

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union, I had to have it. The Clip's personal office unit, the

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hove a track home exer bike,
or the Johanneshev sofa with the string green

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stripe pattern. Even the rhizlampa wire
lamps of environmentally friendly unbleached paper. I'd

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flip through catalogs and wonder what kind
of dining set defines me as a person.

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I had it all, even the
glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections,

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proof that they were crafted by the
honest, simple, hardworking indigenous peoples

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of wherever I was holding. We
used to read pornography. Now it was

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the horse Chowl collection and introducing Tyler
Dirty. Every time the plane bank too

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sharply on takeoff for landing, I
prayed for a crash or a mid air

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collision. Anything life insurance pays off
triple if you die on a business trip.

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If you are seated in an emergency
XPO. Yeah, and feel you

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would be unable or unwilling to perform
the duties listed on the safety card,

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please ask a flight attendant to reseat
you. It's a lot of responsibility once

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which seats. No, I'm not
sure I'm a man for that particular job.

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An extra door procedure of thirty thousand
feet h the illusion of safety,

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Yeah, I guess. So.
You know where they put oxygen masks on

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planes so you can breathe. Oxygen
gets you high. Any catastrophic emergency,

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you're taking giant panic breadths. Suddenly
you become your fork dwesole. You accept

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your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water landing six hundred miles an

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hour, blank faces, calm is
Hindu cows. That that's an interesting theory.

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What do you do? What do
you mean we do for a living?

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Why? Super pretend like you're interested. Okay, you have a kind

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of sick desperation in your life.
We have the exact same briefcase. So

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sorry, I make and I sell
soap. The yardstick of civilization, and

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this is how I'm at Tyler Dirton. Did you know a few mixed equal

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parts of gasoline and frozen No,
introduce concentrate. You can make napalmer.

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No, I did not know that? Is that true? That's right?

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One can make all kinds of explosives
using simple household items. Really fun.

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Was so inclined? Tell you are
by far the most interesting single serving friend

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I've ever met to. Having everything
on a plane is single serving, even

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the Moore, I get it.
It's very clever. Thank you. How's

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that working out for you? What? Being clever? Great? Keep it

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up to Norton is phenomenal in this
film, as is bottom Carter. But

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the performance that has people still talking
even twenty plus years after the film's release

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is the performance of Pitt. He
is the calm and the storm, but

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yet the violent fire that rages.
The psychology he conveys in this performance drives

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this film. Our next two clips
are examples of this. First, Dirten

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convinces the narrator to hit him.
Of note here is how Tyler remains calm

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in convincing the narrator on what to
do, and the narrator just follows.

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Then, in one of the most
memorable scenes, he gives the narrator a

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chemical burn and forces him to go
through the pain. These are prime examples

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of the sociopathic nature of dirtan that
becomes fully exposed as the film goes on.

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But what do you want me to
do? You just want me to

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hit you? Why? Why?
I don't know why. I don't know.

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Never been a fight, you know. But that's a good thing,

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though it is. How much can
you know about yourself? You've never been

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in fight. I don't want to
die without any scars. Come on,

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hit me before I lose my nerve. God, this is crazy, so

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going crazy? Let her Ripkay,
I don't know about this. I don't

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need Who gives a show? One
watching? What do you care? What

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is this crazy? You want me
to hit you? That's right? What?

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Like in the face? Surprised me? This is so stupid. Mother

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hit me in the ear? Well, jesus, I'm sorry? By the

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ear man up? Oh that was
perfect? That really hurts? All right?

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Again? Where you're with me?
Come on, we should do this

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again sometime now. Tyler inflicts pain
on the narrator. What is this?

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This is a chemical urse. We'll
hurt more than you've ever been burned?

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And you will have a school guided
meditation. Work for cancer, can work

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for this pain. Don't shut this
God your hand person is made from the

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asses of heroes, like the person
monkey shotting space. Without pain, without

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sacrifice, it would have nothing.
I tried not to think of the word

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serious. Flash. This is your
pain, this is your burning hand.

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It's right here. Who's going to
my kid? I'm going to my kidn't

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find my power? No, don't
deal with the Towego's dead. People do.

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Come on bain. What you're feeling
is premature and life. It's a

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glass moment of your life. Man, and you're off somewhere, miss shot.

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Our bottles were models for God.
If our father's bailed, what does

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that tell you about God? Listening
to man to consider the possibility that God

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does not like you, never me
or you can use vinegar to neutralize and

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burn. First, First, you
have to know, not fear. No,

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some day you come to die.
You don't know how this feels.

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It's only after we've lost everything that
we're free to do anything. Congratulations one

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still closer to the bottom. Many
times, and in many genres, there

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needs to be a love story or
a love interest to me fight club is

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the exception to those rules, but
nonetheless it has one. The woman is

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Marla Singer played by the aforementioned Bottom
Carter, a woman the narrator meets while

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attending support groups for deadly diseases became. It helps him feel better and allows

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him to break the chains of insomnia. The two strike up an awkward friendship

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while negotiating what groups these two individuals
faking will attend. Our final clip shows

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the toxic, confusing relationship. Marla
and the narrator share. You don't know.

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No, I mean it's okay,
he's still going to group. Yeah,

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Chloe's dead. Chloe? When did
that happen? You can't. I

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don't know. I haven't thought about
it in a while. Yeah, it

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was a smart move on her part. You listen, Um, what are

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you getting out of all this?
What I mean all this? Why do

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you keep? Is this making you
happy? Yeah? Well? Sometimes?

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What I don't know, I don't
understand. Mean why why does a weaker

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person need to laptoo a strong person? What? What? What is that?

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What do you get out of it? No, that's that's not the

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same thing at all. I mean
that's totally different with us. Us.

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What do you mean by us,
I'll try you. Here is who you're

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not hearing on that noise? Just
hold on a second. No, wait,

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what were you saying? Don't change
to oth day? I don't want

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to talk about this. You're not
talking about me? No what that day?

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Came over to my place, the
doctor? What was going on there?

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What are you talking about? Nothing? Nothing? I don't think so

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I'm come on, what do you
want? Look at me? No?

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What? Look at me? What
is that? It's nothing? Don't worry

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about it? My god, who
did this? A person? Guy?

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Girl? What do you care if
it's a guy or a girl? Do

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you care? If I ask?
It's none of your business. Leave me

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alone. I am not afraid to
say. Let me go, talk to

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me. Let go at this conversation. It's conversation. It's over. It's

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over. I just can't go with
you, can I. At the beginning

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of this review, I mentioned how
this film is talked about to this day.

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It simply is not because it's a
great film or the amazing performances.

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It is because that even now people
struggle to interpret what the film means.

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The ending of this film features one
of the greatest plot twists in the history

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of cinema. Some say they see
it coming, many more never saw it

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coming. I dare someone to watch
this film for the first time, even

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the second, third, fourth,
and so on and not have the same

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questions they had the first time they
watched it. Those questions are what makes

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this film stand the test of time
and puts it in a class by itself

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while being labeled one of the greatest
films ever made. I hope you joined

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me next week when we will look
at the mesmerizing Mafia character study the compelling

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true story Donnie Brasco starring Johnny Depp
and Al Paccino for W M n H

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and Matt Connerton Unleashed. This has
been a classic film review with Charica Film