The first film to change me.

Rating: 9/10 (11 January 2012)

When I first saw Fight Club, I was 13. I was so in awe by the shocking twists that I hardly understood the bigger picture. When re-watching, every year since, sometimes multiple times, I always find my position in life determines how I view the movie. It is always a great movie, based on one of the better philosophy books written in the modern day (yes, Fight Club is a philosophy book, no arguments), but sometimes I view the characters with differing amounts of sympathy. Sometimes I wish I could join Project Mayhem, sometimes I am so glad I can't. But through and through this movie is anti-consumer, and it examines the way we have muddled ourselves into these collections of corporate brands as personalities, and it has never been done in a better way, before or since.
I had never had the revelation that capitalism was evil and that actions are usually motivated by a want rather a need, until I saw this movie, and even at 13, I realized how gravely applicable this message was to our culture.
This is, still, one of the best movies around. It has insane entertainment value, and somehow, right in plain sight for all to see, it proclaims that capitalism has failed us all (and rightly so). Marx would be proud!