Changing your reflection...

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2001)

Upon seeing this giant of the film world there was something that sparked inside me. It was only until afterwards, plently of study and looking at many of others' comments have I been able to truly justify my reason for liking this film. I don't like it, that would be an understatement, I love it, I go to bed with it and believe me I can last the full two hours.
It is not only I that adore this film, but there are many who hate it, but still would add it otno their all-time top ten of greatest films. Something they can admire is my justification for people reasoning it in this kind of way. It is true, what is there not to admire the all-out vulgarity of the film, but at the same time it has an intelligence and elegance. It is a six feet tall slim blonde model who can defuse bombs and cure cancer type movie in the metaphorical sense of the words.
And who ever thought that a film would get made by a corporation like Fox? is this paving the way for future films by the large studios that are pushing avant-garde ideas into the mainstream? Let's hope it is, because it is not just being appreciated by us, the people who read film in an analytical sense, but it is appealling to the general film-going audience.
So many criticisms that I have heard, such as the levels of exposure in the film. I can see parts of people, and who ever said that we need to see all of them. I heard David Fincher's comments about it, and him saying that we see too much of the eyes. Relating this back to the primal state of the film and the self-destructional aspect, Apes have black areas of the eye where we have white so you cannot follow their gaze. Now maybe that was unintended by Fincher for me or anyone else to pick up, but still it is true that we always do not have to adhere to rules when making a film, rules are there to be broken and this is something we have to hold in ourselves.
To say one last thing about Fight Club, you can enjoy it onany level you want to, noticing every detail and really considering the effort that it takes to give it this much depth, or just sit back and soak up this original (in terms of commercial cinema) aesthetic we have been offered.