Tyler Durden & Marla Singer

Rating: 5/10 (11 December 2013)

David Fincher directed this strikingly provocative and original film that stars Edward Norton as "The Narrator" of his own life, a frustrated, beaten-down office worker who chances to meet confident and care-free Tyler Durden(played by Brad Pitt). They become friends and business partners(a soap-making enterprise) then create an underground movement called "Fight Club", where men fight each other to let off steam and feel "alive". He also meets the beautiful and mysterious Marla(played by Helena Bonham Carter) who attends multiple support group meetings like he does, and begins a relationship with both him and Tyler, and as events grow increasingly violent and bizarre, it becomes clear that Tyler and he are closer than viewer at first realized... Audacious film needs to be seen multiple times to fully comprehend it, though some elements(particularly the ending) are so off-putting some may not bother trying. Superb acting all around, and most funny at times, but wallows in nihilism far too much.