A refreshing new perspective for those strapped down by modern society and a damn good movie!

Rating: 10/10 (24 September 2005)

Fight club is an film about abstract concepts and a radical new way to deal with the problems in your life. You take from this film what you want and what you can piece together from it. This film is highly interpretive, in my opinion, and can be taken in many different ways. Some may see it as just glorified violence. Some may see it as just another guy flick. Some may view it on a deeper level, and take as much from it as they can. Personally, this film is an evolved, yet primitive way of thinking that is applicable on many levels to the way we live our lives. It's not necessarily beating the crap out of one another for the sheer gore of it. When I look into magazines and see the "perfect" man or woman, or see what one is supposed to look like, I am reminded that that is not a real person. In a sense, it sorta makes those of us without the action figure bodies or the ken doll faces feel a little bastardized. I suppose a more simplified theme of the story would be that there are many things in this life, a lot of bullshit, that frustrates you, puts you down, has you struggling for fading, worldly possessions and grasping for an image that only exists in magazines and on television. Sometimes it may feel that controlled sparring/fighting is a way to separate oneself from those things. Again, it is a primal instinct, and not all may agree with it, and it is not expected to be so. It is, however, one of the ways that those of us who feel alienated from the garbage tossed at us, relieve stress from all that that is dangled in our faces but which we cannot attain. In conclusion, this film is a potentially life changing look at learning how to let go of the tie downs that are fed to us everyday, and the bullshit we deal with on a daily basis. Many may not agree with this perspective, and that's fine, but it's just a different take on what I find to be a very important film that is highly pertinent to our generation and for generations to come. Feel free to leave any intelligent, well-thought out feed back should you so desire.