Revolutionary !

Rating: 10/10 (16 August 2015)

Fight Club is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher. This movie is based on a novel of the same name written by Chuck Palahniuk. So the movie stars Edward Norton-the narrator who's pretty much an average schlub. The guy works in an office, hates his job, has a miserable life. If he was in a crowd, you'd never be able to pick him out. He doesn't stand out at all. Then he meets Tyler Durden(Brad Pitt) and his life completely changes. Tyler Durden is one of the coolest people ever put in movies. If nothing else, Tyler Durden's chaos. He's free in so many ways regular people aren't. So the first time they hang out together Tyler asks the narrator to hit him as hard as he can. And that leads to a fight. Narrator enjoys it and they both decide to do it again.
Once as they are fighting as usual, people gather around them eager to participate in fights. This small group slowly starts expanding with more and more people joining with time. Tyler names this group as "fight club".People sick of their regular life, their jobs, responsibilities fight other guys in the club to get rid of the frustration. This club becomes a sensation and starts developing branches everywhere in the city. Tyler's philosophy of life is - Let the chips fall where they may. That we need to stop trying to control things and just let go. He criticizes all the pretentious and useless things people do in their life to impress people they don't know. He believes that we don't need the jobs we hate to buy things we don't actually need. So he plans to destroy empty buildings in the city to set them free from their miserable ostentatious life. He strongly believes that once you loose everything, you're free to do anything.
The movie holds a mirror to the society and shows them how they look and how ridiculous it is. It has all the characteristic fincher trademarks like smooth camera pans, a cool colour palette, nihilism, ambient music. The camera-work is extraordinary. The background score by the dust brothers makes the movie scenes much more intriguing. This was probably the best role of Brad Pitt till date. Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter acted really well.