The news that film censors from China’s Tencent streaming service have restored the original ending of David Fincher’s cult classic Fight Club will be warmly welcomed by cineastes around the globe.
If you, recall, the picture ends with Edward Norton’s narrator offing his alter ego Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and initiating a lethal city-wide bombing spree.
The Chinese authorities had previously decided in their collective wisdom that it was better to go with an end board that stated: ‘Through the clue provided by Tyler, the police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding. After the trial, Tyler was sent to a lunatic asylum receiving psychological treatment. He was discharged from the hospital in 2012.’
Which wrapped things up nicely, if you really were secretly hoping that the famously dystopian movie pulls a 180 to deliver an, er, feel-good conclusion.
Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk commented
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