One of the best movies of our generation.

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2006)

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Ever felt like you've been dominated by the society? Driven only by your career, work and the IKEA Company? Are you tired of it? If so, then this movie is a must see for you.
Fight Club deals about the life of a rather depressed person, simply named as Narrator in the movie, who has a rather pathetic job, pathetic life, pathetic past and surely a pathetic future. And, he hates it. Suffering from insomnia, he gets addicted to visiting various counseling groups. The pain of others make him feel, more or less, alive. Aware of his own, rather worthless, existence. This all changes when the Narrator meets Tyler Durden, a man who you could describe as an anarchist. Preaching the rejection of material possessions and just live. Every week, Narrator, Tyler and others meet and just fight. Not for the glory, victory, but just for the sake of being alive.
From here on forward, I will no longer really focus on the plot itself, but more on the story. More of the bigger spoilers will follow, so, if you don't want to read major spoilers, don't read any further, and just watch this brilliant gem.
A rather simplistic story you might say, however, it goes beyond the standard Hollywood action-flick. I'm going as far to say that the actual fighting in this movie is just a way of making the point of the real story. It's not about the fighting, or the gore and blood. It's about alienation with oneself, about the fact that most of us forget to live, and just lose themselves in their work and other activities.
The character Tyler Durden, brilliantly performed by Brad Pitt (who shows once and for all that he's more then just a Hollywood star) is not a real human being, but just the basic instinct, a hallucination, of a man who has alienated himself from reality, from life. Tyler is everything Narrator should be. Free of all pain and suffering, enlightened. Simply put. He is free.
Everyone who has every questioned the meaning of life (and I'm not referring to that brilliant Monty Python movie!) is sure to get a thrill out of Fight Club. It makes you think, perhaps question, your perceptions about life, or perhaps reinforce them.
A must see movie and surely one of the best movies of our generation. Perhaps even one of the best in the history of cinema.