Fight Club is a good movie

Rating: 10/10 (12 October 2016)

Fight Club is a drama in any town America during the 1999's. The narrator of the movie, his name not mentioned, is a materialistic and depressed middle aged man. He never sleeps and drones through life. Until everything he owns is destroyed and he goes to live with Tyler Durden, a man he had recently met on a plane. Tyler Durden is a charismatic man who leads the narrator on a path to the bottom. The movie leads the audience along the way as the narrator gives up everything. The theme of this movie is summed up in a line early in the movie spoken by Tyler, "It's only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything." Meaning that true freedom comes when we reach the rock bottom. Throughout the movie this is the critical plot point that makes this particular movie a philosophical tale of a man's enlightenment. This theme combined with great acting by Brad Pitt and Edward Norton truly make this an enjoyable movie. As well as this, there were many speeches throughout the movie that kept audiences entertained while getting a deeply philosophical theme across. Another theme in this movie was masculinity. The movie asks what it is to be a man. It fights the materialistic view that is on becoming a man, like a stable job and a pretty wife, and takes the view to breaking yourself down and going back to the instinct brought out through violence. Fight Club is a movie that unlike many other Hollywood movies has a deeper meaning behind it that makes it so much more worth the watch. Given that the intended audience is men due to the masculine point of view in the movie, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and plan to watch it again.