A near life experience

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2001)

You enter into this film...and what do you see? "Your power animal". Mischief, Mayhem, Soap, is not just a slogan, it's not just a part of a fad philosophy, it is a complete different way of life. This film is not for the weak-minded, or for those who live their lives deep inside their happy commercial, consumer life; but for those who are ready for the change. It is a message for all of us saying "I understand you". Acknowledge you are alive by self-destruction rather than rot yourself between shallow stuff that will only bring you temporary joy. By seeing this film, at the end you will be scarred with lye, your eyes opened wide and reborn as someone different, someone else.
In his previous films, we could see how David Fincher sets us through the mind of the mad men, the murky world of John Doe, the memories of Victor Van Orton. But now, it is something completely different, we can see how the brain of the narrator works and how the brain cells act as a gun is stuck inside his mouth. This is only the beginning.
Watching this film was really a "Near life Experience", I felt how the world of Tyler Durden invaded me and I became not only a voyeur watching how Fight Club worked, but also a member of Fight Club itself. All the anger, the frustration and the loneliness were washed away by a new Nihilist philosophy that is hard to break. And after all this is Marla Singer, the symbol of the unexpected, a person who is free in much ways the rest of us are not, because she's not afraid to die. Some of us would like to be like that, but we are afraid.
I was afraid of writing about this film and not being able to really tell what I really feel about it, but after all...What should I care for what any of you would have to say! "You have to give up" There it is, I said it.