A LESSON IN MODERN ANARCHY

Rating: 7/10 (19 October 1999)

The movie Fight Club has come under a lot of fire regarding it's violent content, its underlying message of anarchy, and how it correlates to recent shooting violence in our society It tells the story of Edward Norton's character, a 30-year old insomniac whose life is stuck in a rut. He meets Brad Pitt's character and they have a few beers, go into the rear parking lot of the bar where Pitt tells him to `Hit me, as hard as you can.' They get into a fight and afterwards they feel pretty good about it. They end up doing this on a regular basis and soon other people want to get in on it and inevitably, FIGHT CLUB is born. But soon it gets more members and grows terribly out of control by including mass vandalism, theft, and destruction. There is a lot of expected violence here and I mean lots of blood. The overall philosophy of the movie is `Wake up, look at your life, get out of your rut and do something with it before you die.' It also tries to create a love triangle between Norton, Pitt , Helena Bonham that doesn't work for this movie. It has a major twist towards the end, not unlike The 6th Sense. The ending is ambiguous and unclear but is typical of director David Fincher's mind-flip style of directing. If I were to rate this movie from a moral perspective I'd say that it has none. If I were to rate from a storytelling perspective, I'd give it a 7 out of 10.