On Seeing the Choke Trailer
I just saw the trailer for Choke, based on the novel written by Chuck Palahniuk, who is so favored by young adults everywhere for his edgy, edgy writing, and also Fight Club.
I am a little disturbed that the movie comes off as a (romantic??) comedy, where sex addiction and a mother’s degenerating mind is something to find humor in. If I remember right, the original feeling that reading Choke gave me was (much like the running themes in Palahniuk’s other novels) that humans are messed up and they know it, but all they can do is hit rock bottom before finding relief. I thought the Fight Club movie did a pretty good job executing this feeling while still incorporating the humor. Well, whatever will make money, right?