A Deep Look at Mankind

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2008)

Fight Club is easily my favourite movie; hands down, no second thoughts, blah blah blah. It is fantastic. I've read the novel at least a dozen times and I am still in awe of what Chuck Palahniuk has created. Turning it into a film was undoubtedly a difficult task - two main characters being the same character. Yet, David Fincher and team pull it off wonderfully. Beyond the memorable characters, casted perfectly, this film (and the novel) is a critique of white-collar society. And it is a damn good one.
I've written about half a dozen essays on the human condition and Fight Club has been referenced in pretty much all of them. Tyler Durden. Tyler Durden. "In Tyler we Trust." Admittedly, Brad Pitt does not make my list of favourite actors. He barely even comes close. However, I must say that Fight Club would not have been the same without him. He portrayed bad-ass Tyler with precision. Edward Norton? Well, he is my favourite actor, so I should be biased to say he was my favourite part of the film. But I'm not. My favourite part of the film? The entire thing. Everyone was feeding off of everyone else. To me, it looked as though everyone truly believed what they were saying. It makes me think that Project Mayhem could one day exist and could be run by Brad Pitt...or Edward Norton...depending what time of day you catch him...or them. Okay, enough of that. I can honestly say that Fight Club is one of the only movies I have ever seen in which I have nothing to complain about. Awesome music, awesome actors, awesome conversion from book to big screen, which is not easy.
Anyways, back to this whole critique of society. Fight Club is revolutionary. Watch it and I promise you will never look at the world the same way. I know I never have.