Fight Club Movie Review

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2010)

Its been over 11 years since it's release, and yet "Fight Club" is still remembered today as one of America's most classic films. It's not one of those big time Oscar nominees, but the theme of revelation it shows through the mesmerizing performances of both Brad Pitt and Ed Norton brings this feeling of charisma in the very beauty that it's bllody fight scenes,as well the in dividual representations of the film's characters.. Both characters, each being one person in general, with each version representing a different form of themselves, with completely different personalities, and furthermore different out looks on life. The nameless narrator (Norton)reprents a typical person who needs the recognition of materialism to define himself, feeling a rational fear of death, and a wondering notion of his own value in life. Tyler Durdon (Pitt)is a much more fascinating character, for he is the very opposite of Norton's character. He is completely free of all the limitations most people allow themselves to be consumed by, despite in an ironic manner being in a physial form that shows just how perfect he comes off as.He doesn't consider anyone in existence to be special, including himself, saying that nobody is defined by anything, "Your not your car, your house or your suit', these very words prove his release from those limitations. Unfortunately his desire for everyone to feel that same form of release escalates beyond the formation of Fight Club, and into the evolution of project Mayhem, a much wider form of release than fight club. The true initiative itself is to create absolute chaos, in order for others to be truly set free. He's not talking murder, or sacrifice, despite there being several brokems eggs for his omlete. Director David Fincher, "The Game", and "Seven" has demonstrated his unique talent through this uniquely isolated character Tyler, brining out the very independence that he stands for. In fact both characters, since each representing two different sides of one coin resemble the complete positive and negative quatlties of that very coin. ortons nameless character is the very negativity his character is, physicallyand mentally drained by the pain of his insomnia, looking for an escape. Pitts character Tyler is everything the narrator wants to be, fit, confident, and completely free of limits. I'm not proclaiming Tyler to be a God, because lets face it, based about his opinion about the man upstairs, he really doesn't care. In that creates a form of envy for the narrator, being the fact that he created that very personality without knowing it. Tyler is just the person our narrator wants to be. It's like Tyler said, "People everyday imagine themselves in better ways". This very concept is appiled in both physical and mental aspects, and i commend Pitts stance on that very issue. We always want to be better at something, even if it isn't an insecurity, or even an issue of lacking confidence, but merely our unending desire to be better. "Fight Club" itself is one of those films that simply uses it's form of specific clarification to manipulate it's charismatic chaos, as well as bringing several concepts of human nature, that include both the relaese and restraint amongst ourselves.