I Had to Break the First Two Rules !!!

Rating: 9/10 (15 September 2019)

What's there to say about Fight Club that hasn't already been said?
It's a movie that truly demonstrates David Fincher's skills as a filmmaker as the film is brilliantly written and directed with the storytelling tone and editing being exceptional. It's one of those movies you watch again and again and realize a lot more things about it, with the second viewing literally being a completely different experience from the first. When I think of movies that put you in the main character's unreliable subjective and twisted point of view, Fight Club is definitely one of those masterful examples. I admit that upon first viewing I misunderstood the movie's violent/fascist ideology and despite understanding and sympathizing with Norton's character to the point of actually embracing some of the movie's nihilistic and Nietzschean ideas, I never actually embraced or approved of the solution the movie ends up providing as I was left to wonder if the movie actually was an urge to violence. Upon several viewings however, I realized how I misinterpreted the movie's true tone and intentions just like most critics did when they first saw Fight Club back in 1999. It's not a movie that approves of violence but one that tries to parody its extreme and occasionally absurd ideology (that is a byproduct of a rotten consumeristic capitalistic society) through violence and over the top situations/sequences. Similarly, to how Taxi Driver is a movie about a guy who slowly succumbs to violence and racism with the movie not approving either, Fight Club is indeed a violent and shocking movie that uses violence as a means to an end without actually applauding it. It's a commentary on the depression isolation and decadence that a consumeristic society (that builds notional role models and needs) provokes to a person who in turn decides to take matters into his own hands as the movie slowly goes deeper down the rabbit hole with rationality slowly getting exchanged with satire achieved via violence and surreal. All and all, the movie is a classic for a reason and if not D. Fincher's best one then definitely one of his best. Let alone the fact the film has one of the best characters in cinema history: Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt).
EXCEPTIONAL: 9/10