One of the Year's Best: Speaks out to a generation of Gap-fed children

Rating: 9/10 (30 November 1999)

"Fight Club" does the best job of any film I've seen in conveying the pathetic truth of how dependent people (particularly teenagers) have become on materials in this country. As a High School sophmore, I assure you I see it all around me; Kids feeling insecure because they don't wear Gap clothing, or getting put down because their parents didn't buy them a Land Rover when they turned 16. It's pathetic, and this is only one subject which "Fight Club" addresses strongly. (I want to make it clear that this is NOT exclusively what"Fight Club" is about, but it is what I personally took out of it the most.)
The film isn't necessarily aimed at my age group, but I think it should be. After all, my generation is the one which is being fed all this materialistic crap, and is definetly most affected by it. I'm sick and tired of movies like "Drive Me Crazy," and "Varsity Blues" to name a few, where Hollywood tries to relate to teenagers when it's just reinforcing exactly what "Fight Club" rips apart (You have to be popular to be somebody. You have to wear this, etc). So for all those kids who are trying to fit in with the "in-crowd" here's a little tip; See "Fight Club," and BE YOUR OWN PERSON. Thank you David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton for bringing this masterpiece to the country's attention.