A Fantastic Film

Rating: 10/10 (2 December 2015)

Fight Club is a fantastic film. The dark plot is pulled through by amazing character and plot progression. The clever shots and angles of the camera hint toward the plot twist that is revealed at the end of the film which gives the whole complicated plot continuity. This film also has a very important social commentary that is taken to the extreme which I believe has a bigger impact on the story's message as a whole. The narrator, played by Edward Norton, starts out as a typical everyday guy. He has an office job he hates and a beautiful apartment furnished to the nines with materialistic items, but he has one problem, his worsening insomnia that throws off his perfect little world. When the narrator meets Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, and Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter, they open his eyes to a whole new world. From this point on you can see a dramatic progression of the narrators character as he loses his beautiful apartment and is forced to live in Tyler Durden's broken down and abandoned house with him. We watch as the narrators clean exterior slowly diminishes, as he changes from never smoking to smoking in every scene and as he shows up bloody at work in a state of disarray because of his late night at fight club. More and more he starts becoming like Tyler Durden and soon they start a project to make a difference within humanity. The narrator begins to realize that their Project Mayhem is getting out of hand and starts to unravel that everything is not what it seems. The narrator takes drastic measures to put an end to all the madness but with the help of Marla it is implied that he will be better off because of it all. Fight Club's brilliant twist ending makes you reconsider the entire movie and allows you to watch it over and over again. This is a fantastic film that forces us as the viewer to consider everything that is going on around us and contemplate what true happiness means.