crazy stuff - POSSIBLE SPOILER

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2004)

This movie is one of what I personally, most humbly like to categorize as movies that have a story which is so original to me, that it gives you the idea like: man, I never thought of this before, and I probably never would in this lifetime. Like the matrix, I mean part 1, the truman show, etc. I mean the multiple personality syndrome part is really out of this world, and also is the way in which edward norton deals with his upcoming mental illness, which you can see growing in him, when you know the whole movie. I mean, he deals with it through violence, fighting and later more random acts of vandalism, with at the end the greatest act of vandalism of all. Not only does it gradually cure him through this, but it seems to me that he spreads his madness to all the people that join the club. But for them it's not madness, but a way to deal themselves with their own frustrations through the basic participation in violence, and the fact that they feel they are part of something powerful now, which in turn makes them feel powerful and proud etc. I feel you can see this especially well in the character of Bob. Edward Norton himself becomes gradually more normal and gradually wakes up on the craziness all around him. Then the way he deals with his alter ego tyler at the end seems a solution obtained through simple deduction, but it also takes great courage to shoot yourself and a sense of all or nothing, I guess. After the whole crazy story shooting himself seems even a pretty sensible and almost normal thing to do. Brilliant!