Fight Club
....7...8...9...10...You're Out!!!...Fights Over!!!From the very beginning of the movie, Fight Club attempts to take us on an adrenaline ride. The film starts as a rush of adrenaline is shown going to the brain of the Narrator (Edward Norton) as the camera pans back to reveal a gun being stuck in his mouth. From this imaginative beginning the movie slowly spirals downward to a pool of the dark water and blood director David Fincher populates the film with. While Fight Club seems to have the best of intentions, social commentary can be a noble cause; the movie doesn't connect like one of the haymakers thrown by the underground fighters. Instead the movie leaves its chin out waiting for someone to deliver the knockout punch. Where Fight Club fails to deliver is that it tries to cover too much ground and never strongly address any of the social problems it's trying to cover. Is it railing agains
When you're done watching the movie there is a familiar smell in the air, but it's not one of soap. And he could have done it well, but the subject is soon dropped to go on to tackle another ill of society. t the commercialism that populates our culture? Is it a film that is trying to talk about the emasculating of males (a theme that seems to be occurring quite frequently in ninety's movies; The Full Monty, American Beauty)? Or is it a film that is saying males are all looking for an outlet to release our primal animals, to strip to the bear minimal and fight in dark and dirty basements? We may never know. But like all the other subjects Fincher touches on, he doesn't develop this theme enough. But this bliss is interrupted when someonelse begins attending these same meetings. Together the scenes come across as a mish-mash of nothing. The beginning of the movie he walks around in a daze with dull eyes. He's an insomniac who defines his life by the possessions he owns. Edward Norton plays the part of a lifeless soul trapped in the corporate machine very well. " But the whole anti-consumerism crusade loses some of it's power when you realize your sitting in a major chain movie theater (which you paid seven dollars for your ticket), drinking a four dollar coke, and eating jujubes that cost four dollars. Norton's only friend in the movie is Bob (Meatloaf), who he meets in the testicular cancer group. We are introduced to Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a soap selling, Huggy Bear dressing hipster who just happens to be Norton's alter ego. Here Fincher seems to be ready to attack the emasculation of males. Norton's character needs these meetings because they enable him to become a different person.
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