A brilliant look at the human psyche

Rating: 10/10 (22 June 2005)

I first viewed Fight Club three or four years ago, and the first time I saw it, i didn't get it. I understood the fact that Edward Norton had created some delusional characterization of what he himself wanted to be, but I just didn't get IT. The human race, despite all our knowledge, all our capacity for thought, and the sheer miracle of our being, despite all of these things, we are always wanting more. It is the reason that we achieve so much; that we build skyscrapers, that we put a man on the moon, this is why in our eyes we can never be good enough, can never be perfect. This movie is not about a bunch of guys fighting, it is about contrasting stories of the human mind. On one hand you have Edward Norton (aka Tyler Durden) who on a subconscious level is so hopelessly lost in life, and in that principle of wanting to be something your not, that he remakes himself in his mind, and in turn that thing which he created tries to achieve even greater things, and so on and so forth. While on the other hand, in his frantic search for something other than himself, he helps thousands of people around the country let go of that human strive for perfection, and if for only a moment, find themselves by beating the crap out of each other. Two opposites react and complete the cycle, and by the end Edward Norton comes to terms with who he is, and is finally at peace. This is one of the greatest stories ever told, and sums up the human race in one beautiful story about the simple concept of being.