The first rule of Fight Club in China, it turns out, is that the authorities come out of it looking good.
The original movie ends with Edward Norton’s character killing his imaginary alter ego Tyler, played by Brad Pitt, and then watching a series of explosions destroy the city around him, in what is presumably the culmination of his “Project Mayhem” plot to bring down modern consumerist society.
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