![]() It also matters that the performances – Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in Fight Club, Matt Bomer and Chris Messina in The Sinner – are excellent, at once violent and deeply emotional. ![]() Strangers tell Jamie his philosophical ramblings are gay and people wonder if Jamie and Nick were lovers – which Jamie denies. Both Fight Club and The Sinner deal with restless young men hurting themselves and everyone else because they think pain is all that matters – Nick makes Jamie stab his hand, Tyler forces a chemical burn on the Narrator’s knuckles.Īnother similarity comes from the endless think-pieces on the homoerotic tension of Fight Club (men scrapping just to prove how manly they are Tyler and the Narrator being soulmates), and they are equally applicable to The Sinner season three. They say that the ‘ubermensch’ lives at a higher level than the common man – which is all Tyler, the Narrator, Nick and Jamie could ever want. “How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?” Tyler asks, and every next mad decision points back to the idea of knowing yourself, of proving yourself stronger than other men by fighting. ![]() Meanwhile, Fight Club sees men trying to gain that same power through physical violence. They carve the word “ubermensch” on Jamie’s dorm bed – which is famous thinker Friedrich Nietzsche’s definition of the “beyond-man”, so powerful that he trumps the power of God. The Sinner explores Jamie’s tortured relationship with his friend via their discussion of nihilism at school. ![]() The two duos cover similar ground philosophically too. Their bond is built on a mutual need to feel something more important than anyone else could understand – and after the crash, Jamie communicates with Nick via hallucinations.Ĭhris Messina plays Nick in ‘The Sinner’ season three. Comparably to the Narrator and Tyler, Jamie and Nick’s relationship (fleshed out through flashbacks) is dangerously intense. In The Sinner, Jamie (Matt Bomer) survives a car crash in which the driver, his school friend Nick (Chris Messina), dies. Read more: Edward Norton: “If you take your work seriously, it’s all-consuming”.Eventually, it’s revealed that Pitt’s character is merely a figment of the Narrator’s twisted imagination. What comes next is a steady stream of chaos that ensues while the two frustrated guys search for meaning in their lives. Released in 1999, twist-filled thriller Fight Club focused on an unnamed narrator (played by Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia, whose life is turned upside down when he meets a stranger named Tyler Durden (Pitt). Now, let us elaborate…Įdward Norton and Brad Pitt starred in ‘Fight Club’. Such are the similarities between Brad Pitt’s iconic antihero and the Netflix drama’s newest character – both unstable men struggling with inner demons – that you’ll be checking IMDb for a sneaky David Fincher writing credit. “Stop trying to control everything and just let go!” Who said it – Tyler Durden or Jamie Burns? Fight Club aficionados might scoff at such an easy question, but if you’ve only seen the latest season of The Sinner, you may be stumped.
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