"You are not your job, you are not how much money you have in the bank, not the car you drive, your not the contents of your wallet, you are not your f***ing khaki's."

Rating: 7/10 (20 September 2015)

The particular film that I'm reviewing is that of Fight Club. The major stars of the film are Edward Norton who plays the depressed main character without a name and Brad Pitt which plays the character of Tyler Durden. What the theme is in this film is so intricately supplied within the title of the film itself which is that of the fight club. Through the beginning of the film the unnamed character was suffering from insomnia and depression and sought relief, what had happened that instead of any actual remedy for his insomnia from which the attendant at the hospital had recommended was that he should witness what he called real pain and that was from a testicular cancer support group. However odd this was, the unnamed character started going to these down-trodden support groups to seek relief although he didn't suffer from the actual illness from which the group was based upon, which in a sick and twisted way had helped him only temporarily forget about his own problems. This is where another character of the movie comes into play and that is of Marla Singer played by Helena Bonham Carter where she had joined the same groups of which the unnamed had been frequenting. Knowing that Marla was a fake just as he was within these groups all satisfaction and relief had ceased.
The point in the film where he meets Tyler Durden was on a business flight from which they introduce themselves to each other. The fight club theme seemed to have evolved from an altercation that had happened after a night of drinking at a local bar. From there the actual fight club just seemed to evolve from other people that would gather around outside of that bar to fight one another. Soon there seemed to exist the fight club that took place in the basement of Lou's bar.
With regards to the lighting in the film most of which seems to be produced in very dark conditions with only a few parts in the film that were actually well lit. This seems to me to represent the very nature of people and the human condition as it applies to all the strife and trying times that a person can go through in life. On one side of the picture you have the well lit office atmosphere of an everyday normal life and career and on the other side you have the actual realities of human suffering and all the real emotions that people seem to disregard in their everyday business atmosphere which seems to surface when alone and living life outside of their corporate existence that perpetuates the necessity of everyday life. There is one line in the film that represents this statement and that is from the character Tyler Durden "You are not your job, you are not how much money you have in the bank, not the car you drive, your not the contents of your wallet, you are not your f***ing khaki's." No matter what someone does for a living inevitably everyone goes through the same turmoil.
The other variation of the film would be the motif and the reoccurring pattern of the unnamed character getting beat up. Whether it's from people in the fight club or whether it's merely himself causing bodily harm this is what ties the film together ultimately reaching the end of the story where the truth is finally revealed and completely undoes everything that you knew up to that point about the unnamed and the story line itself. In my opinion this is what makes this particular film worth watching over again. Just to be able to make sense of the film's story to begin with.