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Rating: 10/10 (30 December 1999)

Do people actually read these comments anyway? Well, yeah, it seems that most people enjoyed Fight Club. Oddly I wonder if the majority of the public actually understood the theme of the movie, or maybe the American public simply enjoyed the "satire" or happy go lucky violence. I give Fincher credit for having massive picture effects and for creating this masterpiece of fascist and male chauvinistic propoganda.

Fight Club started out great. The first 30 minutes were billiant. Then where did they go wrong? The movie was inconsistent between two parallels: State of Nature (State of War, a.k.a. anarchy, chaos, basically the opposite of society) and conformity. It seemed like Fincher wanted to direct a movie about everything flawed in our society today, hitting subjects like individuality, equality, pragmatism (reality), etc. but it was so...uniform and aimed at the general public that it fails to show WHY we are not our khakis. And oh dear god, what screams establishment more than popular culture references? So it constantly contradicts itself. No...it doesn't, oh yeah it does, we aren't our khakis and pain is reality. Blah blah blah.

Another thing, the whole theme of the movie is that our realities are so contorted by materialism that even pleasure isn't "real" anymore and that the only thing that's "real" and can save us is pain, i.e. getting punched in the face. Yet this theme wasn't really executed in the movie. It seemed more like 2 hours of sweaty men punching each other out! I consider myself extremely liberal but I realize the needs of conformity in a society! Without uniformity to some degree, I assure you, 99.9% of our civilization would be lost. Let's just throw away 5000 years of evolution and let natural selection kill everyone off except for people who're like Brad Pitt. Maybe I'm over analyzing, maybe I'm just too old-fashioned for all the new, hip anarchist-capitolists, but in my opinion, if people want exhilarating violence and male chauvinism (Fight Club failed to show the role of women in the cool new facist-anarchist empire we have a duty to create!) they should go see the new James Bond movie or something, which was exactly what Fight Club is, minus the quasi-political subliminal messages: ALL FLUFF!