I was listening/watching Taking Back Sunday’s “Cute Without the E” and one of the comments was, “I just realised this whole song and video is essentially Fight Club.” and that reminded me of how I haven’t seen Fight Club since I was a tween.
Fight club was a classic movie that young me couldn’t appreciate as I was too young to care about movies that weren’t fun like Jurassic Park or Josie and the Pussycats. So what did 20 year old me think instead as I watch it?
It is excellent. It has been a month since I watched it again and everyday I think about it at least once, which to me indicates a good movie as it has lingered in my brain long after I watched it.
The synopsis is mainly about this man who remained unnamed throughout the film (Edward Norton) and how he is essentially bored with his existence until he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), and that was how Fight Club was formed. I knew the plot twist as I have watched the movie prior, but knowing makes this movie much more enjoyable.
This movie may appear to be speaking to working middle-class men in their 30’s but I feel this movie speaks to all of us in its themes. It is essentially a coming of age film which targets adults, and it spoke to me by thinking about how we all are taught to live life with the same structure: school. work. marriage. retire. die. In order to break this cycle we must rebel against the system, and I think that as someone who hasn’t reached the “work” part of my life yet, this is enlightenment really.
Jared Leto is also in this movie, and as a hardcore fan of his work I am deeply disappointed that I did not know this!
I will get into spoiler territory now, but this movie is 16 years old so I would be surprise if there is someone born before 1999 who does not know of this twist.
Here we go.
Ed Norton’s character is Tyler Durdan. An overwhelming twist I would presume if one has seen the movie without knowing the twist. However if you are to re watch it again, it actually makes so much sense. Fincher really had an eye for detail like how almost all characters when Norton and Tyler were together only ever looked at Norton and how those screen shots art the start should’ve indicated that Norton was close to breaking point when Tyler was created.
I love this film. Like I think I like it so much I will have to watch all of Fincher’s films again. I have seen many of Fincher’s films and the only one to have disappointed me was Alien 3 and I haven’t seen Full frontal so I am unsure about that, but his work as a director has been incredibly impressive. Heck, he even made me like Tyler Perry in Gone Girl this guy is incredible.
Marla is also an interesting character who really is so similar to Unknown guy which I guess links back to the fact we are all trying to make our lives interesting and seek the thrill. Helena Bonham Carter is of course incredible in this role, but she generally is! She is a messed up woman willing to be with a messed up man, until she couldn’t take it anymore.
Overall, this movie is twisted and I love it.
I will give it 4.8 Jack’s raging bile ducts out of 5.
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