This film changed my life.

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2008)

Where to start?
It's been nearly ten years since "Fight Club" was released. I saw it for the first time in about four years yesterday. I still find it both truly inspired and truly inspiring. Some of the themes and concepts that the film explores have become even more relevant in this day and age.
Why?
This is the film that crystallized a great deal of pain, rage and emotion with a great deal of viewers, including myself. When I first saw this, I worked a job I hated for a phenomenally racist and homophobic person, I'm not gay, but I'm semi-intelligent, speak politely, like foreign films and alternative bands. Therefore, people with small minds judge me as a result.
"Fight Club" taught me to be true to myself. It was also one of the first building stones that lead to me quitting the profession in which I worked. Not probably the normal reaction, but the scene where Tyler says to the bodega worker that if he comes back and sees him working the same job made me start crying.
This film and Darren Aronofsky's masterpiece "Requiem For A Dream" helped me to find the courage to change my life in so many different ways and to embrace this life and live it to the fullest.
For that, I say thank you.