If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to Fight!!!!!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2008)

What can you say about a film, whose ideals center on anti-consumerism and rebellion/anarchy. I'm sure most people have wished for simpler times in their life, especially when confronted with an increasingly hectic, fast-paced, and technology-centric society. Fight Club aims to make that a reality.
Fight Club center on Edward Nortons character, lets just call him Jack. Someone who is half yuppie/ half Starbucks frappucino corporate drone that the 20th century seem to churn out in alarming numbers. Jack suffers from what a lot of Americans suffer from disillusionment with themselves and their problems. Jack also fixes this ailment the way corporate America has told Jack to do so, buying more crap. Soon enough Jack can't sleep, something is wrong. Then comes Tyler Durden, who changes Jacks entire view on life. Jack wasn't just suffering from insomnia he was comatose, unable to see the world for what it really is. Then comes Fight Club and some uncanny relevations about himself and the world he has created unfolds. This is the essence of Fight Club.
The reason this is so influential is because while your watching this film you can't help but relate. Everyone at some point in their life has felt empty, hollow. I guess, Fight Club is at its best an eye-opener. Never has America's consumer greed been put under such a microscope and examined in such an artistic and mesmerizing way.
Fight Club at its heart is an "F#$% You" to modern society and the measuring yard it has created to measure your own self worth. Fight Club aims to liberate the viewer from the confines of the metaphorical jail of American idealism and societal control measures. It aims in the only way you can really get someone to understand, a bone-crushing punch to the face.