You're not your Khakis!

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2003)

I can stomach few modern films, but this is a stand-out movie. I was losing my faith in Hollywood, for its incessant turnover of crowd-pleasing bang-bang action films, dull one-line beefcake heroes, and trashy, pester-power kids animation flicks. Sure, capitalism rules, product-placement is rife, but can we not have plot, character and a truly well-presented narrative?
Fincher has brought us a gift in Fight Club. Over-hyped, it was not the movie i expected. It has plot. It was put forth with great style and skill. It was enjoyable!!
"Fight Club", sounds like violence, infact it is. Not as much as i'd have thought, but it's there. Some would say it's too much, i'd say it was perfect. I would willingly watch it with my mother! Some Bonham-Carter scenes would be a bit wierd :) but wholly its a good film, why shirk the realities? It's not truly distasteful! Is violence the centre-point of this film?
I didn't really think it was, personally. Once again, its more a statement of modernity, and some would say 'rhetorical masculinity!'
Are men men? What is a man? What are people? How do we define ourself? Is such post-modernism the way? What is love? This film should leave you questioning all these things, and you would be a truly good person to take away some meaning and apply it to life. It's not about beating-up your neighbour, or encouraging your kids to be vandals. It's about becoming you. And being yourself, regardless of what you're told. Shape yourself, and live together.
No-one gets hurt!!