A radical and nihilistic idea

Rating: 10/10 (15 August 2016)

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not the f**king khakis. You're the all-singing all-dancing crap of the world". To an outsider, all-singing and all-dancing may not make much sense but the idea has been depicted in the movie beautifully.
Fight Club, a psychological thriller is a movie depicting radical and nihilistic ideas relating to the society in general which I believe to be true to a great extent. The movie revolves around the life of an unnamed person working for an automobile company, frustrated with his job and suffering from insomnia.
One night he visits a support group for testicular cancer and finds some kind of freedom there and then events lead him to meeting Marla Singer and then Tyler Durden. He is initially attracted to Marla but keeps away from her. He fears meeting her often because of the stark similarity in their personalities. Along with Tyler, the narrator opens a fight club. The idea being that fighting for re-creation makes them feel what real pain is which helps them to let go the fears they had in their life and live freely.
I liked that the movie focused on minutest details which if one notices would leave him appreciating the movie more and more. I would refrain from going into the details of it as it would be a spoiler of the plot. Also, the cinematography was appreciable with use of single frames for subliminal conditioning effects. The visual effects were put to perfect use too to give a first person perspective.
Overall I feel the movie is enlightening with it's radical idea. Though people might say that it gets a bit too violent in parts, but I feel if that bit of crossing the sanity can depict a radical idea profoundly then there is no harm in it. I think the idea of nihilism is very much practical (though the society may not consider it) and has the potential of paving the way for a free life and at the same time being responsible for it. Also, I feel that many people do practice this ideology to some extent though not much significant and I am sure such people would be able to connect easily with this movie.