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Fight Club is a straight in the face, brutal allegory to the contemporary society.Edward Norton plays the role of an average American who lives in the invisible cage of capitalism trying to complete himself by buying CK T-shirts, yin-yang coffee tables, etc.- he is 'the by-product of a life style obsession'. He considers himself a self-made man , not knowing that his life is beyond his control, mastered by corporations. He suffers from insomnia and the only way of getting some peace of mind is by attending certain groups with terminal diseases9 tuberculosis, testicular cancer, etc.)His life changes when he meets white trash Marla and Tylor Durden.

The script is based on Chuck Palahniuck book, Fight Club, a novel that was at first rejected because it was considered too dark and too risky. It is an innovating film, Fincher uses slow motion, freeze frame shots and jump cuts. It is one of the most original and mind challenging movies of the 20th century, a strange experiment that turned out to be a masterpiece.

'Nest of Wasps', the film version of Alexandru Kiritescu's play is one of the greatest Romanian comedies which displays the the entire human typology of the beginning of the 20th century in Romania. The cast is absolutely great, some of the greatest Romanian actors manage to recreate the charm of the superficial life during those days.

The wasps are three sisters that are trying to relive their youth and although they are unkind, rude, selfish and superstitious, achieve their goal- they present the funny side of death. The film is a verbal and visual satire of the middle class (the bourgeoisie) in a time when Bucharest was known as 'The Little Paris from the East".

'I don't know where the whores are going, where the black pimps are going, where music is going but my idea in life is that where the black pimps are, where the pimps are, where the music is playing, where the lights are on, that's where life is....I think degradation, black pimps, prostitution are the flowers of the Earth.' Bukowski used to say. Grandma Moses,the old murderer, the drinkers at the Golden Horn, Wanda, Henry those are representatives of the world in which Charles Bukowski used to live in Los Angeles, California. It's a kind of subterranean life, not most of us are aware of. Barfly is a semi-autobiography of C. Bukowski, the script was written by the poet. M. Rourke is brilliant here. He had to study Bukowski from He used The Charles Bukowski Tapes, a documentary directed by the same Barbet Schroeder, to analyze the writer's gestures and intonation. Just like in Arizona Dreaming, Faye Dunaway gives a wonderful performance as Wanda Wilcox.

Overall, Barfly is a wonderful study of bohemian life. If ' Days of Wine and Roses','The Last Weekend', 'Leaving Las Vegas' show the dark aspects of alcoholism, the seriousness of it,Schroeder looks at the issue without prejudices. You will enjoy the movie, especially if you are into Charles Bukowski's short stories and poems.