An insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life,
crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker, forming an underground
fight club that evolves into something much, much more...
Director: David Fincher
Writers: Chuck Palahniuk (novel),
Jim Uhls (screenplay)
Fight Club (1999) Storyline
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel
primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their
concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every
town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control
spiral toward oblivion.
Fight Club (1999) User Reviews
Fight Club is one of
the most unique films I have ever seen. In addition to presenting a
rather fresh take on life, FC also presents its material in a fresh way.
My main interest in the film is in that, in my opinion, it does not
present characters for us to think about. Rather, it presents actions
for us to think about. I will say that I cannot recall *ever* having
been "asked" by a film to both suspend my disbelief the way this film
asks in its third act AND at the same time come to terms with an
understanding that there is no room--or need--for disbelief.
Perhaps
these comments will not make sense to the average movie goer who will
dismiss this film--and, unfortunately, its premise--as another hollywood
flick filled with gratuitous violence. I'd go as far as to say that
this film is not about violence. It is about choices. It is about
activity. It is about lethargy. It is about waking up and realizing that
at some point in the past we've gone to the toilet and thrown up our
dreams without even realizing that society has stuck its fingers down
our throat.
I would argue that anyone caught, at some point in
their lives, between a rock and a hard place--anyone who has reached
bottom on a mental level--anyone who has uttered to themselves "Wait,
this isn't right. I would not do/say/feel what it is that I just
did/said/felt... I do not like this. I must change before I am forever
stuck being the person that I am not." These people, they will know what
I'm talking about. These people will not only recognize the
similarities between Edward Norton's character and themselves--they will
be uncomfortably familiar with him. These people will appreciate Fight
Club for what it is: a wake up call that we are not alone.
As
David Berman once said: "I'm afraid I've got more in common with who I
was than who I am becoming." If this sentence makes any sense to you, go
see Fight Club. You won't regret it.
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