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Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2007)

Maybe it's me and some close friends who believe that this movie is above all. First, as my Buddie Sitki puts it, this is a men movie. Females of all ages(at least the ones I know), do not get the point at all. The ideas presented, losing all hope being freedom, slavery to consuming, how we were pumped all with the idea that we are all going to make pop stars and movie stars, were somehow in my mind and finally someone told it for me to the rest of the world. I am always troubled with the ideas like, that we are getting old and we need to do the things that we have not done before, we need to catch up with life, we must try everything we can, and we need to go on a vacation whenever it is a public holiday, we need to get a house, a car, a pension fund, after we have a house and a car and a pension fund we need to get a bigger house and a more luxurious car and a pension fund with greater pay. What is all the rush? Does every one have to sky dive? Does every one have to visit the Bahamas? Is there an end to having better of everything? Why don't we have the chance to enjoy the present status as it is, with our convenient house and car and PC and what ever?... We can not, because they need to make money. We are their paying population. Like the people stored in the "Matrix" for the electricity they provide. The same goes here. Everything around you has a purpose of utilizing you. At what ever level of making money you are, you still have financial troubles. I recall dreaming of making USD 5.000 a month will be fantastic in my early work life. Now I am making more than USD 5.000 a month and it is still not enough. I am 37 now. I remember the first commercial PC's. They used do come with 2 Mb of RAM, 120 Mb of Hard drive, with a 386 processor @ 200 Hz. Could you believe it? We could well use spreadsheets and word processors and do almost everything we wanted. Now ordinary cell phones have memory cards for 2 Gb. Why do we need all that memory space? Why can't we live without the cell phone itself? Do we really need to take pictures any time, do we really need to have tons of music walking with us? Why can't we simply use telephone boots to call people? We used to like a decade ago. Now I can't think of meeting with someone with him or her not having a cell phone. How can we find each other, the exact place and time? It seems impossible. How did we visit someone for the first time in any place. Now I am making like 5 calls, before finally finding the spot. Were we more clever in the past? Do we really need 12 million pixels of picture resolution? Are our eyes sophisticated enough for that? We could survive without 50 inch plasma or LCD's, which still could not deliver the picture quality of a moderate regular TV with the good old technology however cost like 10 to 20 times more. I don't want to be taken in a wrong way. I like technology and find it useful and support it. However, I think there is a fine line, where consuming becomes the major objective, beating the need. At that point I feel fooled. I went to a cell phone dealer the other day. Asked for a cell phone without a camera, no MP3 player, no blue-tooth. The guy looked at me, trying to understand if I am for real or not. Colleagues at work criticize me saying "How could you even think about purchasing a cell phone without a camera at this time?" It is the same in car industry as well. Why do we need Air conditioners, that could blow cold on the driver side, and hot on the passenger side? What kind of circumstances would require that kind of operation? If the passenger finds it cool, simply turn the passenger blower off. That 3 word abbreviations in the recent makes. Do they really help us to survive? There are like ten of them I heard, and none I really heard someone telling me helping them in a way, apart from anti-lock brakes. Can't we like have a car, which is an airbag itself? Once it senses the crash, it goes off and the car is totally surrounded by the airbag. This will cut the number of airbags in a car to one, from 20. The makes go bigger with each new model. The cars classified in mini segment have reached the dimensions of the middle segment of a decade ago. Writing long, I might have passed a comment on the movie, however I believe Fight Club, puts all these and much more into question. This is why I find it as the best movie ever.