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The hidden meaning of Fight Club
Fight Club might have a repulsive name, but the movie itself is not about fighting, rather the Fight Club is a representation of the natural emotions and feelings that socioty tells us we must never express and the place inside of us where these emotions build up. Its a statement against the falseness and hypocrocy of socioty and the the falseness and hypocrocy of the medie and what they say we must do and what we really want to do. The movie is a study of the reaction humans will give when these fake ideas are imposed on us too much.

The most amazing CULT film of our time
This is proabably close to my favorite film I've ever seen. It's just spendidly done and very well crafted, you just lose yourself in the film from open to close. It also gets credit for being one of the only films (next to 'mystic river') that follows the novel so well. I hate watching films that distract from the message of the novel by changing the story line so drastically they should have given it a different name ('Less Than Zero' was one of the worst). I have to say that if you've never read the novel, you should read it ASAP. I find that you can find more morality or at least more of a morale to the story when reading printed page versus watching the screen since we tend to get so wrapped up in the glitter and gloss (not much glitter in this film) that we get distracted from the real reason the story was written. Our story revolves around a nameless narator (played BRILLIANTLY by Norton, another slam dunk for him here), an insomniac who, in order to find peace of mind, spends his time bounceing from group therapy meetings, sharing his fake stories and crying, he does a lot of crying, and all that release makes him, well, sleep...all until he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter) who is oddly stunning in this film, mixing well her 'come-hither' good looks with her 'go-away' attitude...she is repulsivly-beautiful if that is possible. You see Marla, dispite her charm (if you call it that) is just another roadblock in our narators road to peace. You see, knowing that there is another 'poser' in the same sessions as him, he just can't cry with her watching him and so he can't get that release and without that release he can't sleep and so our narator ends up back where he started...all until he meets Tyler (Pitt, who by the way does AMAZING here...I have to say that although I am always ragging on his 'lack of acting ability' to my wife, referring to him as a B-Grade actor, I still have to admit that he has talant, I just feel that he, like Leo alike, are widely overlooked because of their 'pretty-boy' stereotypes)...anyways...Tyler opens a door for our narator to release the stress that robs him of inner peace, and when his apartment is torched to the ground he has no where to go but to Tyler. Everything is fine and dandy until Marla rears her attractive head and soon all hell brakes loose in a rollercoaster of a film that will leave you dazzled. The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fiht Club is you don't talk about Fight Club...The third and most important rule is that you MUST WATCH Fight Club to understand the NEED for Fight Club...EXCELENT MOVIE

If this is your first time at Fight Club...
From the opening sequence traveling through the inner workings of Edward Norton's neural system it's clear that director David Fincher wants to assault your senses with 'Fight Club'. He throws in everything including a few kitchen sinks so that by the end of his film you'll want to take the ride again. He doesn't care that some aspects don't quite make that much sense or that the main character Tyler Durden has a viewpoint that some would call fasscist. He wants you to think about 'Fight Club'...but not until the last (and very vivid) frame is over.

Edward Norton plays Jack - a depressed business man stuck in a nine to five job and hating every second of his miserable existance. So much so that he cannot sleep a wink. He stumbles into the world of support groups (namely testicular cancer) and begins to feel better about himself; he is finally able to sleep. That is until a chain-smoking, pill-popper Marla comes in with the same plan of crashing support groups. His lie reflects his lie. After meeting an eccentric soap salesman by the name of Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) the two decide to unleash their aggrevation with the world by beating each other up - and loving it.

From the opening scene Fight Club is full of ideas and principles and logic. Half-way through many of those ideas have either meshed together to form something greater or collided with a bang/thud - and still formed something more substantial. By the end of the film we're in chaos. The ideas still make sense but we're so immersed in the story of Jack and Tyler that we can't stop and think about all this logic. This is not a bad thing. In fact, it's a great thing.

By the second half of the film you are no longer allowed to have a breath of fresh air. There are no moments of release where you will think that one character is going to be okay. David Fincher hands over the controls to Tyler Durden and we strap ourselves in.

Fight Club is brilliant and the critics never gave it the respect it deserved. Not only is the film full of ideas, but it's extremely well acted by the entire cast, offers some breathtaking imagery (much of which is CGI but rarely noticeable), and startling and frank scenes of violence and uncontrolled mayhem. In many films that would be a detractor; Fight Club goes overboard with every element but at the same time manages to pull it off perfectly. Kudos to David Fincher for assaulting us - nobody could have done it so well.

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