Fight Club

I just recently watched a movie called Fight Club, screening Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, while flipping through channels on TV. My brother, who had already seen the movie before, told me to watch it and so I did just that.

The main character, also the narrator, starts off as a busy office employee who needed everything to be perfect. He had to have all the furniture and household materials that he would see in magazines. Whenever he went on business trips, he’d always share the same, old, boring stories with the person next to him on the plane. But his life changes 19\80 degrees after he meets Tyler Durden, a person with the exact opposite personality, on the plane. They talk and Tyler gives him his number. When the narrator gets off the plane and goes to his “perfect” apartment, he sees that his apartment is on fire with all of his belongings. He has no one to go to and so he calls the guy he met on the plane. They drink and they agree to live together. The two often fought aggressively with each other because they liked the feeling of it. More and more people start to want to fight and so they make a “Fight Club” and let people join. The two make soap for money and Tyler teaches the narrator to be different. The journey of these two men continues and they meet many problems such as love and friendship. Only those who have watched the movie will know the twist.

I think the director of the movie, David Fincher, has done a good job. Although the movie played for a long time, it was hard to take my eyes off of the TV. This may be because of my lack of experience of watching this genre of movie but the events that happened was different and unique from the other movies I’ve seen before. Each incident flowed well and had its own charm. The twist of the novel was so unexpected but explained logically why many things happened throughout the movie. This is the movie that made me fall of Brad Pitt. He came out all tough and independent with six packs which made him look even more charismatic.





Source: Fight Club. Dir. David Fincher. Perf. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter. Art Linson Productions. 1999.