Strange and surreal movie

Rating: 7/10 (4 August 2012)

The pretty and smooth Brad Pitt along with the sweet and bashful Edward Norton as the couple of a blood dripping undercover fight club, rolling in the gutter with broken teeth, swelling eyes, and bloody faces in a secret underground game.
Could the filmmakers and writers make me believe such a story, or make me care? Well, director David Fincher did. I went to the theatre and saw this movie with an open mind, confident with the notion that this would be a pure fighting action movie. However, I was dragged into a story blacker than night. It embraces widely, it puts its grip around consumerism - the Ikea generation where brands and advertising defines our identity as hollow and poor. We are left quivering with strength, but empty of something meaningful; that's the message of this story.
Here we are trapped in a world of shopping culture, but is it about an identity crisis, some kind of revolution, or straight up terror? I couldn't really tell. The movie is quite surreal, a struggle between two people who become something totally different.
Very good performances from the three main actors. The movie has a dark and visual power, and turned out to be quite disturbing, but it was very fascinating - and very good!