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Fight Club Movie ReviewFew movies deliver the visceral impact of Fight Club. Fight Club has insight, plenty of laughs, and enough testosterone to last a week. If you asked me to list 5-10 films that summed up the 90s, Fight Club would be on the list. Fight Club is a tale of young urban professionals living and working in the cities to collect material possessions, but feeling disaffected and somewhat empty inside. The film is narrated by Edward Norton (no name given), who joins help groups just to be around other people. The Narrator (he actually has a name, but I'm not revealing it) who works for an automobile corporation, but who suffers from insomnia. Suddenly, the mysterious Tyler Durden shows up in the life of the narrator. The two have a fistfight outside a bar, and decide they haven't felt so alive in way too long. The next thing you know, the two of them have started a fight club for similar disaffected white guys in the city. This becomes a phenomenon, and a monster is born. Fight Club ReviewPeople who didn't live through the Nineties--or people who weren't in their twenties in the 90s--may not be impacted by this film the way I was. But if you are a young professional (or old professional) and you're feeling as if there has to be something more to life, Fight Club has to be interesting to you. That being said, I imagine most women would hate Fight Club. This is a visceral movie with an incredibly dim view of the human male, or at least the urban male in Western society. There's enough over-the-top humor and downright farce in the film that it's hard to take the philosophical dialogue that seriously. In fact, the critics who railed against the violence of the film never quite understood that the filmmakers were never seriously advocating this type of violence. The film shows the silliness and meaninglessness of the violence to show us the shallowness and meaninglessness of the materialism these men are rejecting. If this is their answer, then what they are rejecting must really be worthless. Fight Club PerformancesWhatever you think of the film, the performances of Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are first-rate. Each lives inside their character, bringing them to life in all their bloody horror. These may not be men of the 90s, but they are a twisted glimpse of the mindset of a certain section of the population, for a short period of time. Ten years later, I'm sure most of us have found ourselves, or at least mellowed a little bit. But it's interesting to go back to a time when guys were bummed out about everything, and needed the catharsis of a movie-dream about meaningless violence. More Fight Club Movie InformationDavid Fincher, who has also directed Se7en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and 2010 Oscar-contender, The Social Network, directed Fight Club. The 1999 film was based on a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The novel has even more quotes, if you think Fight Club is quotable.
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