A Quick Review Of Fight Club

Posted on : 27-04-2010 | By : Lynette Sellers | In : Movies

If you haven’t seen Fight Club yet, well… Welcome to the twenty first century. How was it under that rock where you live? This movie was sort of a cultural event back in the late nineties. It wasn’t just a movie, it was The Thing everyone was talking about, and has since had every bit as much of an influence on the modern world cinema as Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas had had some years earlier. It’s certainly one of the must download movies of the decade.

The movie follows Ed Norton as an unnamed narrator who serves as our lead character. He’s a white collar office worker dissatisfied with his lot in life, and the movie draws a lot of comparisons to Office Space which came out around the same time. The two films are very different, however. They use much of the same subject matter, but Fight Club is much darker, much more brooding, while at the same time… Just as funny, albeit in a darker, more sarcastic sort of way.

The movie really picks up when the Narrator meets Tyler Durden, a man who has no regard for the rules of normal society. He’s sort of like Cosmo Kramer with a copy of The Stranger and a sense of testosterone driven anger. He’s scary, funny, and sort of inspiring. Definitely a man with ideas. Not all of them good, but at least he’s got ideas.

Durden serves as the heart of the film in more ways than one. He and the narrator found the Fight Club, a get together where men can come and, well, fight each other. They let out all their frustrations and try to remember what it means to be a man by pounding their fists into one another. The movie follows the club as it grows into something more.

Once they start robbing banks and trying to take over the world, you see that the Fight Club is an expression of rage, that impotent rage that all men feel in a society that has castrated them in a symbolic way. The movie is outlandish and surreal, but this part isn’t. That anger is very real, and it seems entirely realistic that, given the right catalyst, men really could just go crazy and start blowing things up for no good reason (heck some guys already do it).

The ending is really something. Since then, it’s become sort of cliche to end with a big twist about who’s who, but at the time, it was really a new idea and it worked really well. A little gimmicky, maybe not even necessary to the purposes of the film, but it was really a surprise when you saw it the first time.

Ed Norton has since gone on to do a lot of… Well, some people call it Oscarbait. He does a lot of movies that are more, you know, “indie”, and he’s controversial, not all directors enjoy working with him. However, in Fight Club, he really gives the performance his all, creating a character who is both an everyman and a completely unique individual, and the perfect contrast to Tyler Durden. Pitt as Durden is every bit as capable, and turns in one of his best performances.

Love it or hate it, this movie, as shocking, grotesque and violent as it may be, is one of the most influential of the last twenty years, and at the very least, deserves its due respect.

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