Smug, self righteous tale told by an idiot

Rating: Null/10 (19 February 2004)

A 2 hour pop video from the dreaded Fincher which employs all the sound and fury it can muster to signify nothing.
Yet another attack on the petit-bourgeois by a resolutely petit-bourgeois mentality that attempts to diffuse its myriad contradictions through a tiresomely twisty schizo-personality plot cop-out.
The dialogue breaks down into nothing more than quotable soundbites for teenage weekend-rebels. "All self-improvement is masturbation". This from a film-maker (and I use the term advisedly) who's 'style' is the very essence of cinematic self abuse.
Designer nihilism with Brad Pitt. A 'trip-hop' soundtrack. And Helena Bonham Carter as a kind of Goth Dorothy Parker.
Christ. Is this what passes for cool and edgy these days?