Hitting Bottom

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2001)

I've read a lot of these reviews that people have put on here. I agree with the fact that this movie isn't about a bunch of guys getting together and beating the snot out of each other.
I believe this movie is telling every individual person to stop and think about what his/her life is, and where it's going. We need to take a look at ourselves and see what our society has become. We've created this big corporate America. The love of money and how we get it is what our lives revolve around. It's sad; it really is. Some people would give their lives for money and very often lie, cheat, steal, and kill to get it. Sure we need it in society to survive and eat, but all in all it's not that important. It doesn't make you happy or put your soul to rest. Why should we be "working jobs we hate so we can buy sh** we don't need"? Perhaps that's why Tyler wanted to blow up the credit card companies, to show the people that the world's not going to end if you can't use your credit card. Life goes on with more important things to worry about. Money is so interwoven into our society that we really can't live without it, but it surely isn't everything. We are no better than the next guy just because he's poor or lower on the social scale than we are. As the pearl jam lyric states, "You are who, who you are".
One of the main themes of this movie is the concept of hitting bottom. I just got done reading a very good book for college, St. Augustine's Confessions. One of the things that Augustine addressed was the fact that we truly can't look at life honestly until we've lost just about everything and suffered. We can't help but to be biased in our opinions when we're sitting on our own little pedestals happy and content. When you haven't suffered hardships, you only see one side of yourself. How do you know who you are when you've only seen one side or yourself. Hitting bottom, truly hitting bottom is the only way.
This is just one of the issues that Fight Club addresses. I'm not trying to preach here, the last thing i want to do is tell people how to think or feel. We should all do that on our own without the opinions of television, or anybody for that matter. One of the main reasons why i wrote this review is in reply to "radiofreeadam". I hope this helps you in your understanding of this movie. And if you are going to quote from this movie, please quote it correctly and don't change the words around to support your argument. I encourage you to watch the movie again with an open mind and apply it to you.