| I had to watch this film a few times before I could really appreciate it. The reason for this is because I refused to believe that any film could pull off the high-velocity, mind-numbing sequences in this movie. I was wrong. Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (director of Seven, The Game, and Alien 3), is a darkly comic film about a man whose life is turned upside down and inside out. Edward Norton (Keeping the Faith, American History X) plays the main character, a narcoleptic nobody with a cynical view of life around him. He hates his job, his life, and feels alienated by the world in general; he can't sleep at night; he surrounds himself with trendy furnishings to give meaning to his life. Down the line, he crosses pathes with a man named Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt (Seven, Interview with a Vampire), a man who abandons the material world in the belief that pain and suffering are the ways to truly live life. The two eventually end up living together, and start something called "fight club," where people beat the living snot out each other for fun. Throughout the entire film there is this feeling that somethign is going to happen that will just blow you away, and that feeling is realized at the end of the movie. This film is so perfectly structured that you have to pay close sttention or you will become hopelessly lost Fincher does an excellent job adapting Chck Palahnick's novel. So far I have found ZERO flaws in the ways the film was made, as well as the way it makes total sense given the ending of the film and the nature of the events after you realize what is going on. This is definatly a movie worth your time and money. |
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