Movie Review on Fight Club (1999)

139 min - Drama
Director: David Fincher
Writers: Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay)
Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter
IMDB: Top 250 #12 | Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 13 nominations See more awards »
Budget: $63 million
Box office: $100.9 million

Plot:
Fight Club is a 1999 American film, based on the Chuck Palahnik's novel with the same name. Norton plays an unnamed everyday guy, that goes to the meeting for people with cancer so that he can cope with his insomnia problem. After his apartment burns down Norton's character decides to call a guy who he met on the plane - a soap seller called Tyler. Soon they both create a way to treat aggression and the treatment is called Fight Club - an organisation where men gather to fight each other. Soon however the idea begins to spread and get out of control

Review:
Recently I have talked with a guy how awesome Fight Club is and how he watched it every day and that is why I decided to watch it again. I was literally blown away from the details and the meaning I have missed (in the last 5 times I have watched it) and how I haven't understood the movie at all. That's why I read an article about the movie that gave me a different and somehow "deeper" understanding. It doesn't mean that it is true... these are just my thoughts about the movie  and the the things I have read about it from other bloggers.

The movie has a fascinating story-line that caught my attention right from the beginning. If you miss even a second of the film you would end up wondering what did just happen. After you see the film a couple of times you would realize that it represents the story of the life of the anarchist and the evolving of chaos and civil disorder. In the beginning of the movie after the Narrator's apartment burned Tyler said "Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may." With this statement begins the denial of the organized world and the embracement of the anarchy.

Through the whole movie the story compares the human values an their denial. Fait, hope and love are denied in almost every second in the movie. Tyler slaps the Narrator and tells him "Listen to me! You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you, never wanted you, and in all probability, he HATES you. It's not the worst thing that can happen." That makes the denial of God easy to spot. However, the religion as an implement of control is embraced by Tyler.In the movie he is presented somehow as the preacher of "Fight Club". He even came up with the 8 rules of Fight Club that we can compare to the Ten Commandments. Another example for that we see in the middle of the film when the Narrator says: "In Tyler we trust" (a reference to the words written on the dollar bills - In God we trust.) Adter that we can see the denial of hope it  is shown in this quote: "And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. " As we know the every person is on the pursuit of freedom and everybody is craving for it. However the so called "freedom" that Tyler is preaching is close to Chaos. At the end of the movie there is even a comparison between the both - Tyler's operation "Chaos" and the government's operation called "Hope". The third denial - the denial of love - is maybe the most obvious one. The relationship between the character of Helena Bonham Carter - Marla Singer -  and Tyler  is just plain sex. He doesn't share Marla's affection neither he is showing any emotion towards her.

Although the movie can be understood in many ways, one is certain - it is one of the best movies ever made (and that is why I wanted to make a bigger review on it) and it must be watched. If you have a different understanding of the film, please, live your thought in the comment section below