Day 71: Fight Club

"The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.

The second rule is: you do not talk about Fight Club!"

This movie is not about fighting. Yes fighting is there, yes the title is about fighting, and yes the film does have numerous fight scenes, but this film is so much more. The film is about an unnamed narrator, Edward Norton, who's battling a bout with insomnia. He meets a girl Marla Singer, Helen Bothom-Carter, and they both are addicted to going to help groups.

At this point in the story, the narrator invites us into his life. He gives us his view on life and the way life is in a modern day philosophical way. "I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person?". This quote is saying how he had become a consumer. Soon he meets a mysterious man, named Tyler Durden played by Brad Pitt. Durden is wholeheartedly against consumerism and he maintains a 'screw the man' attitude. He is an organized hippie that actually does what he says he wants to.

Once a series of events unfold, Fight Club emerges. Fight Club is were two grown men fight each other - no grudges, no aftermath, just plain fighting. Once this grows bigger, Tyler (who is now simply dragging the Narrator along) makes a smaller cult-like following from selected, dedicated members of Fight Club. And thats where I'll stop with the plot. Fight Club is the most thought provoking film I have ever seen. The main theme of consumerism is film tackled without mercy. It says that consumerism is the enemy. "Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then?

...Consumers"

Other than these elements, Fight Club is an extremely well directed film. David Fincher is the best director today (but i prefer writer-directors). This film has a signature saturated look that shows the distortion of the world and the way it is being viewed. Plus that signature ending (with the signal frame of adults material that was mentioned at the being) was satisfying and superb. In my opinion this is a perfect film, BUT it is not for everybody. I think in this case the first rule of Fight Club is: you must watch Fight Club!