Best Film of All Time (from someone who doesn't know)

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2017)

Some people think the 90s was a decade to forget, and towards the end of it, there came a film that epitomised that feeling, or made you feel that it did. The pairing of Norton and Pitt with Bonham-Carter (her best role, hell all their best roles cast and crew included) is chemical genius; for it is electrifying chemistry, even in the quieter moments, that makes the story so palpable. Meat Loaf is an inspired choice too, embodying Bob with a vulnerable machismo that is dying or being reborn in a new form. This film predicted that entertainment could be taken back to its brutal basic form and that people would pay to watch men fight. The bouts though, are not all fisticuffs and blood. Sometimes the punches are more cerebral, man not just wrestling man physically, but also emotionally, in relation to self-imposed roles and roles imposed by society. Such roles, like rules, should always be questioned, and Fight Club reminds us to challenge the status quo. Consider that if Fight Club had been made in the 70s (I know, stupid thought experiment) it would most-assuredly have been banned - and the Ultra Violent film of that decade did go on to be banned and then canonised in subsequent generations. Box office returns suggest this film was a flop - I admittedly did not see it in cinema, I watched on DVD the first time - so one must thank the producers of that time for allowing such schlock to be made. Would you say this film is a modern epic, or a postmodern parody? I wonder how many consider this film a classic. With one of the most perfect endings, using a song from the eighties that is loved and respected by multiple generations because of this film, it is time to recognise Fight Club as the Great American Film of the 90s (coming from a non-American). This review is preaching to the masses, but what about those not yet converted to the mayhem of Fight Club. Well there are two things I can tell you: Firstly, you do not talk about Fight Club, Secondly....