I'm Jack's Amazed Viewer and Lonely Heart !

Rating: 8/10 (7 June 2010)

Did I love it? Yes.
What's the most beautiful thing in it? The way it makes its conflict. I mean hey, this is a movie about getting sick of the modern time, how the urban lifestyle and values can make you a psycho, and fighting the materialistic civilization in a savage way. However in breathless motion picture where action, dark comedy, psychoanalysis, let alone a big twist, are mixed in one entertaining package. Here is where counterculture meets the video clip style meets fascinating movie-making. At one point, I found myself saying: "This is how philosophy can be bankable". This is mainly the effort of one really great writing.
The thing is we all love to have a stronger alter ego. We all hate the fantasy we live and can't reach. And we just board of building what we can't complete. So how about being stronger, reaching the fantasy of destroying anything complete instead?. It said a lot about a very hot psychological problem that the human of today lives. The too many rich corporations became an evil empire. Hence there must be a resistance. Angry, bloody, and lunatic herd of resistance. Connecting this idea, as a brainchild of today's twisted world, with a fast-paced totally unpredictable movie that touches all the victims-is the exclusive greatness of this script.
The details are so insightful and indicative (loved the soap one; as this society washes by its dirt!). The speech of (Tyler Durden) is made to touch every condo's sleepless soul out there, and it did. The narration is one of the best narrations I ever experienced, if not the best. The atmosphere is utterly different and smart. The image is artistically dim yet attractive; it makes the sense of exile intimate for any city's human. The scene in the car, running without holding the wheel, summarizes the mad and profound nature of the whole thing. The acting is flawless; the way how the cast loved the movie is incredibly felt on-screen. (Fight Club) is what (Edward Norton) will be remembered by, for years and years. All of that makes watching this movie again a must.
What did you hate in it? Firstly, the obscenity of some parts. Then, the heroine's face and aspect. While being a part of dark, sick and wild world, she's supposed to be a sort of another face for the kind hero. And she was somehow a symbol of love that the lead needs and refuses in the same time. But (Helena Bonham Carter)'s features and looks were scary, creepy, and unbearable. Plus, a bit of illogicality. For instance: the scene in the police station, in which the good lead is about to be castrated, wasn't acceptable; so his army will do it blindly? He's their beloved leader! How all the screams and blood are going to be hidden?!, etc. And something ruined the finale for me; how to shoot yourself in the mouth, then be alive and capable of speaking?!
On a deeper level, something was deficient in the start. The introduction of the main character somewhat missed something. (Chuck Palahniuk), the author of the novel which this movie is based on, said that the motive to write it came up with an incident he lived: "After being beaten up on a camping trip and returning to work he found that nobody mentioned, acknowledged, or asked about his injuries, because if they did, a degree of personal interaction would be necessary." This "societal blocking" wasn't so well-portrayed on-screen, seeming theoretical and - at best - borrowed from other movies. In another word, the important meaning; concerning how this lifestyle can generate violence, since this kind of life is emotionally violent hence psychologically destructive-wasn't shown at first in an original way. I wanted that very incident to be included, and it's in a way, but not effectively.
Furthermore, I think that the movie just focused too much on the subject of the schizophrenia at the end more than anything, which mirrored itself badly on the ending. Yes, it's a journey to complete chaos, a war that the crazy side in it must win, but I felt something cut off, as if there was another more expressing ending thrown away somewhere by the hands of the studio, or the movie makers themselves. But anyway, who said that there is 100% perfect thing?!
(David Fincher) is maybe one of the ill victims, or just a brilliant film / moviemaker. He understood the material, while not losing it along the way (Why some classics must be sleepy?!!). The man talked about frantic life frantically, yet with sharp mind also. The fact that the maker of (Se7en) and (Fight Club) is the one who did (Alien³) and (Zodiac) annoys me on one hand, and gives me the undeniable fact on the other: Kudos to the script.
This is a top-notch movie. Aside from being the next step after (Taxi Driver), concerning the birth of the urban lunatic from the urban womb, it's extremely better than it on many levels. It succeeds in being a "changing over" itself among all the movies we watch. For me, what will live long the most from it is the way it made its cranky conflict and world too special.
So, what do we learn from it? Love can make you sleep tight sometimes.. if you find it. Otherwise, be aware, you would end up being a (Tyler Durden) yourself.