Fight Club Movie Review-Spoiler Alert

Rating: 9/10 (4 May 2016)

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I give this movie 8.5/10 as it is very entertaining, captivating, seductive, and at times makes you readjust your sitting position and ask yourself what in the world is going on. This movie was brilliant in several aspects. I feel like it encapsulated several themes, and the top ones addressing mental health issues, as well as the consumer culture that we live in.
Fight Club has big time actor Brad Pitt playing Tyler Durden, who is the main character's alter ego. Marla Singer is played by Helena Bonham Carter and is the narrator's "girlfriend" throughout the movie. Edward Norton plays the main character to in which is officially referred to as the unnamed narrator. This is a bold, yet unique approach from director David Fincher which almost compliments the character.
The movie begins with the narrator struggling with insomnia and slowly divulges into his private life and many personal issues. The narrator appears to have some underlying issue or set of problems that is inhibiting him from acquiring hardly any sleep whatsoever. Deciding on this name for the character compliments his character in the fact that he appears to have a lack of confidence or the ability to address any of his issues, letting them perpetually compound into a greater mess. This mess is later revealed as Schizophrenia, which contrary to popular belief does not have multiple personalities, as well as Identity Disorder, which is indeed the root cause of multiple personality disorder. The narrator begins to attend a testicular cancer support group to personally feel real pain. He endures raw emotion and cries with a member there, coincidentally allowing him to begin sleeping. He meets Tyler Durden on a flight for a business trip, and escalates his testicular cancer meetings into what we all know as Fight Club.
I feel one of the underlying issues from the narrator, as well as everyone that eventually attends Fight Club, is an issue with the consumer culture we live in. We live in such a materialistic world that when we're unhappy, we go out and buy ice cream or a pair of shoes. Instead of addressing the fact that we're depressed from being overweight, lack of exercise to stimulate endorphins, release dopamine, or maintain our serotonin levels. All being things we could personally control, yet everyone just continues to overeat in place of these things.
We first take notice of this in the film when his apartment burns down, and he loses his suitcase filled with all of his things. To him this was his identity and creates an internal combustion within him. He evolves Fight Club into Project Mayhem with the realization that if you want anything in this world, including happiness, you have to go out and take it. He ends the movie by shooting himself in the head which the bullet exited his cheat allowing him to live, yet frees him of his alter ego when he dies, as they are the same person.
This film was the first thing since Clockwork Orange to boldly portray mental health as an epidemic issue. People are so easily recruited for fight club, due to their own underlying mental health issues regardless of what they are. The narrator dealing with a range from depression, insomnia, clear to schizophrenia.
The lighting in the entire film is very dark, which helps compliment the depressing nature of the character, and helps shine light on Tyler Durden. The camera angles have the narrator and Tyler Durden appear to be in important places in the group, almost allowing you to see their power. Angles are also shot as a close up full frontal from the main characters, and more of a distant panning for everyone else, establishing them as the main characters.
Fight Club was well worth my time and money to watch it. If you didn't enjoy it's violent seductive nature, then perhaps you can enjoy the depth of the film that definitely helps shine light on our mental health issues being nurtured by materialistic things and ideas. This is a movie I would definitely watch again.