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great movie!!!!
To explain the profound effect the film has had on me would be Herculean, but I will do my best. The social commentary and dark humor left me bemused, shocked, and philosophical. The story is not as simple as the title would imply It is not a meaningless movie of underdogs and champions, nor is it a blood bath. It is a brilliant, blunt, and beautiful re-examination of all we've come to believe. The story is captivating, thought-provoking, and at times humorous.
After Watching Fight Club I realized that I could relate to the movie. I don't mean I am able to relate to blowing up my own apartment or starting a secret fight club in the basement of a bar or causing havoc all around the nation, I mean a lot of the thinking that Narrator does in the movie I have thought the same to some extent as well. This movie challenges the viewer to take a good hard look at their own life.
To quote Tyler Durden "We're consumers. We are by-products of a life style obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra." a satirical rebellion against the pseudo-civilized, brand-orientated but under-satisfied life we live today.
In reality, this is one mind numbingly great movie, after letting it sink into my mind and giving it a second viewing, it was just amazing. Durden (Pitt) is near addicting; you begin to see why so many people would follow him. That "who cares I do what I want" personality is portrayed perfectly. Jack (Edward Norton) is like a slave to his deadening job at the office and has a cynical view of the world. He is trying to find a way to deal with his insomnia, caused by his discontent about everything in life. He meets Tyler and finds in him everything he is not; he has found his alter ego. Tyler is a sort of bad-guy, who is exceptionally convincing and confident and who has everything figured out. They start 'Fight Club'; groups of men fighting each other in a basement. These men are also fed up with society and by fighting they can get rid of their fear and hate.
What starts out as suburban white guys whining about how they can no longer assume as a given a life of effortless wealth, privilege, and power turns into something much more elemental. Their jobs are dull and don't offer intellectual challenge, spiritual fulfillment, or satisfaction. In other words, they've been cheated out of what they'd considered their rightful due as men. This movie is about searching, searching something new. "Fight Club" is really cathartic - it gives the feeling of freedom, it gives hope, it gives the sense of deliverance from the weight we carry on our shoulders.
It is not just about the younger generation getting their kicks but also about questioning the nature of society. It's about emotionally dead people who can't feel anything except through violence, and it's also about the desire for community, a support group, to make life bearable in our unbearably meaningless world


great, misunderstood movie
People see this movie and generally think the main theme is the philosophical parts during the middle/end, but I think another theme that is just as prominent and more important is Edward Norton's character's search for companionship, control, and identity. I don't want to explain everything but I think it's hilarious what he goes through to get these three things. Old people generally take the violence and philosiphy too seriously but the point is for all of it to be absolutely absurd. This is the only movie besides Requiem For a Dream that I think is perfect and I will stand by that forever. If you don't like it it's because you don't understand, or your close minded, plain and simple. Every facet of this movie is polished to a fine sheen, and has left me dissapointed by almost everything I have seen afterwards.

Don't take it too seriously
There is a lot of "tongue in cheek" in Fight Club. Is it a commentary, a love story, a cry for help or just pulling your leg? All three?

There are many dialectical strains in fight club; feminism versus Green anti-consumerism, passive "metrosexuality" versus troglodyte violence, an almost Luddite repudiation of modern life versus the use of Mind Control strategies to build a "movement". Plus a very confused view of self improvement.

Moderation, self awareness, goal seeking, focus, and adopting healthy male models of behavior? Breaking free of malignant anti-male feminism while embracing the good of the feminist movement that emphasizes that women are not property? No.

In a sense you laugh along, in another you wonder who they're really making fun of here.

Ironies abound as well, a Doctor who refuses to prescribe sleep medication and instead prescribes "exercise and valerian root", to black humor about automobile accidents to the female antagonist's dissolution that seems to parallel the main character's search for himself. Not to mention what Tyler does to the Clam Chowder or what he splices into family movies.

One should not take this movie too seriously. There are self help groups which endorse Fight Club, both the movie and book, as a sort of totem for masculinity. Fight Club lampoons such groups too.

As for the acting; pretty good. Brad Pitt is having fun. Ed Norton is having fun. Meat Loaf is probably having fun but not as much as fun as in "Rocky Horror Picture show". The cinematography is wonderful, as is the sense of gritty dispair.
The soundtrack is quite good too.

Fight Club is a fine movie, just don't take it too seriously.

Gene

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