Keep your soap to yourself

Rating: 5/10 (15 October 2000)

After viewing this film, I begin to wonder if the filmmakers want us to believe that every man wants to ultimately rebel and then flog themselves to near death for doing so. Evidently, they have that vision of despair; that lack of faith in humanity.
Perhaps some call it artistic expression, but pure cynical humour, to me, is self-indulgent garbage. All it does is propagate more confusion in a blatant refusal to understand.
Where Se7en had brilliance -- in the display of the seven deadly sins, the clarity of each character, the horror of the consequence of action -- Fight Club almost displays the horror of human life itself, and that's just plain bad art.
Yes, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are wonderful in it. But why are they in it?
If the filmmakers are so unhappy with themselves and humanity, they should at least give us a vision of how they feel things SHOULD be! Or let someone else get greenlighted that can at least appreciate something about humanity. Sell your soap somewhere else. I ain't buying it!