Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (4 June 2001)

From the astonishing visual style, to its stinging satire of American culture, never has a movie made me laugh so hard, or drew me in so completely. It is said that every generation has a work of art or an artist that represents the feeling and conflicts of its time. Fight Club is just such a movie. Although considered to be a statement on the impoverishment of white American males, Fight Club is just as important as any piece of art trying to portray the sufferings and ailments of a society, culture, or demographic. Critics who dismiss the movie as some type of attempt to portray white males as having problems that they just should not complain about, simply refuse to be open to the fact that everyone has problems, and issues that need to be faced. Fight Club illustrates the issues of its generation with great clarity. It is not a matter of agreeing with the issues. It is a matter of resolving the problems. Some of the themes in the movie such as consumerism, loneliness and nihilism only serve to illustrate the "lost" X generation, and are only means to illustrating a dead and lifeless society. What is great about this movie is it does not provide all the answers.