This movie was one that I had been told to watch more than once. Its appeal was indubitable: it was a movie that was relatively middle-aged (from the 1990s), and sported a wacky plotline with strange and witty construction. Adapted from a 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, the movie is pretty accurate with its portrayal. This film has also been the subject of many a controversy in its time. Mainly, though, the attacks are towards the movie’s portrayal of violence as acceptable alternative lifestyle that can aid with problems accosting an individual. This is true. But it’s ridiculous to keep blaming things for the choices people make. My opinion? Make people less stupid. Enjoy the damned movie, and that’s it.
The story starts off with a man by the name of…well…he doesn’t really have a name. The actor’s name is Edward Norton, though. He suffers from incurable insomnia which his doctor refuses to treat, and has to travel a lot for his job as a worker for an automobile company. Seeking a way to deal with his mounting problems, he begins attending a support group. This ends up helping him and he assumes different identities, attending a myriad of different support groups for different ailments and afflictions. Finding a person that does the same thing as him in the support groups, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), angers him, but they come to an agreement to split the support groups. Soon afterwards, though, he is traveling when he meets a man called Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) on a plane. Tyler is a traveling soap salesman, and the nameless main character envies his attitude and mode of life. Upon returning home, he finds his apartment in flames. He calls both Marla and then Tyler for help and ends up staying with Tyler at a random decrepit house. One night, they begin fighting for the heck of it, and it quickly becomes a routine thing that attracts more and more people each time. Everything changes when a person asks if he can fight next—this is when the 1st Fight Club is founded. Soon, though, the main character discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew and that the Fight Club has become more than he can control or more than he wants to be involved with.
At the end of the movie, my mind was blown, and my heart was sold. This movie was great. It was a funny, witty, interesting, obnoxious, violent, and breathtaking view into the life of a misconstrued man attempting to find solutions and an identity. Cinematographically, the movie is amazing. It contains everything from three-dimensional rotation of characters (matrix mode-ish) to subliminal messages and even interesting flash-backs made like old film and the loss of autofocus. All in all, this extremely enjoyable film is well worth watching and enjoying and I highly recommend it. This movie not like watching paint dry…it’s like watching controversy seep into every crevice of American society.
By Kulguy
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