This film not a beautiful and unique snowflake (spoilers)

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2002)

This film is ugly. It really is. It is hard to watch and is definitely not fun. That said, it is simply amazing. The acting is awe inspiring, as is the dialogue. Technically, it's the best film I've ever seen. The camera penetrates everywhere, and much more convincingly than in Panic Room. The plot, of course, is magnificent. Nothing is at seems, yet everything is. Most of the people who will watch Fight Club won't get it, in fact, I'm not sure I get it. However, what I think I do get is that it's not about how bad material possessions are, but about embracing it. In the end, the narrator just stops fighting, stops trying "cure" his problems and just lets it go. He has finally got complete freedom, for he has lost all hope, all hope that his life will be "cured." I don't what the intentions of the author were, so I'm probably completely off. The film also works on a completely other level as a man's decent into insanity. I read a review of the film in which the reviewer said that all the events in the film were all in the narrators head. There is no Fight Club, it is only a metaphor for the narrator's problems. The end symbolizes him blowing away any sanity left. As soon as I finish writing this, I'll probably think of other another theory, for thinking about this movie is it's true purpose.