One in a life time opportunity

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 2018)

Although I'm breaking the 1st and 2nd rule of the Fight Club by talking about Fight Club, I reckon it's for a good reason as I hope to recruit more people into this club. This movie is a philosophical movie that reveals the flaws of the modern human society. The entire movie is bordered on fiction and reality that interplay each other and the vehicle of the plot that moves the needle seem to be the brief lapses in the thinking of a person who begins to muse on his life. The flow of story is told through the eyes of a person who tries to break free from that materialistic life of consumerism by engaging in a taboo, breaking free from that commercial lifestyle of 9-5 and the subsequent desire to purchase and consume products. Edward Norton portrays the protagonist who gradually realizes the flaws of the consumer culture, and begins to untether himself as he fights his way to enlightenment to find a deeper meaning in life. there is so much philosophical underlinings that are abstruse but can be deciphered by the audience through reflecting on the reality and the delusions presented in form of Tyler Durden and his club.
In some sense, there is a Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) in all of us, a better us that wants us to break free from our slumber in a lethargic loop of constant gratification of our material desire for things that give us the momentary happiness. This movie seems to use Edward Norton as the pariah who joins the Fight Club that revolts against materials and promotes individualism and self-empowerment through gaining knowledge of the true human potential for self-awareness and greatness.
This is one of those rare movies that is suspended in a delirium that crosses between fact and fact, and it is has a surfeit philosophical treasures glimmering beneath the surface, waiting to be extracted by those who are willing to dig them out by joining the Fight Club and finding their inner Tyler Durden.