An anti-society film

Rating: 7/10 (27 March 2000)

In a commercialized society where condiments are expensive, electric razors are mistaken for sexual objects, and where men grow abnormal breasts due to testicular cancer chemotherapy, some members of society can't help but feel alienated. You've got everything. A college degree, a good job with a major company, a luxurious apartment, nice furnishings, an expensive wardrobe, and a mail order catalog, you've got everything to fit the puzzle as a normal human being. But what if you didn't feel normal? What if you felt so crushed by the corporations of America that have literally consumed society with their Decaf Latte, Soda endorsed, motor vehicle comeback, video store chain feeling methods. Fight Club is a film that makes us look at a society that we have seem to forgotten. Where money is no longer currency but is a power and those who yield it invade. Fight Club is a throwback to all the old seventies films like Rollerball in which America is ruled by corporations instead of people, it's like Soylent Green where one corporation controls half the world's food supply, it's like Logan's Run where someone decides how long you'll live. You live in your 9-5 daily grind every weekday of every week of every month of every year of every decade of your life without realizing the fact that it is making you dead on the inside. You've become something you've forgotten. You live in a world where you don't control money but it controls you. You live in a world where your boss wears blue ties on blue tie day. You aren't an athlete, a movie star, a rock star, or a supermodel. You're an undignified product of the system. You're become a packaged slave to the world that looks at you as a drone. You've been brainwashed by a world where morals don't exist because they've been replaced by the rules of the corporation. This is without a doubt, one of the best films I have ever seen because it chooses to be something we're afraid to face. Edward Norton continues his DeNiro in waiting acting style alongside Brad Pitt who completely throws his leading man status out the window and eschews his pretty boy personality to play a seriously evil and twisted nihilist. Helena Bonham Carter proves she doesn't have to do JUST period dramas with her edgy role as Marla, a nursery home meal stealing, over the counter drug overdosing, laundrymat clothes stealing, chain smoking, support group meeting attending loser. The epitome of white trash in bad clothes. Fight Club is a film that is daring and dangerous.