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One thing comes to mind when looking at Fight Club, hmmmm. You see this David Fincher directed film is definitely not your ordinary Hollywood picture. Fight Club stars Edward Norton (American History X) as a bean counter for Federated Motors. This despised occupation basically decides when it is economically in a company's best interest to order a recall of a company's product. Kind of like when a certain tire killed a certain number of people a certain nameless tire company finally found it in their best interest to recall the tires. But this is a bit off of the subject. Anyway, the job is pretty boring (mainly number crunching) and a bit stressful, so Norton's character can't seem to sleep. Instead of drugs, his doctor tells him to try group therapy. And he does. Except he doesn't go to discuss his sleepy problem, instead he pretends to have whatever ailment is being discussed at that particular session. From male breast cancer survivors to testicular cancer survivors to a death group, he goes to use these groups, and he sleeps like a baby. But then one day Marla (Helena Bonham Carter, Mighty Aphrodite) comes along and does the same thing. At first he wants to turn her in, but eventually comes to a compromise by splitting up their groups. At first this works, but then he needs more. So on one flight for his job he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt, Se7en), and the story takes off from there. The two start a little group of their own called the fight club. This club eventually takes over Norton's life to a point where he blackmails his boss, the Regional Manager (Zach Grenier). He does this by beating himself up in his boss's office. Norton's character and Tyler then start their own little army bent on chaos. But to Norton's character this organization/concept gets out of hand, to where he wants Tyler to stop, especially after Norton's friend Bob Paulsen (Meat Loaf) is killed. This is where Fight Club separates itself from most other Hollywood films. You see, Tyler is really a figment of Norton's imagination. Unfortunately that gives away most of the film, but you can't talk about this film unless you talk about this most important piece of this psychological thriller. Though what I have mentioned so far is the main plot of the movie, there is also a bit of a love story between Norton's character and Marla. Fight
Club was written by Jim Uhls, but it is based on the novel by
Chuck Palahniuk. Others making appearances in this film are
Richmond Arquette, David Andrews, Christina Cabot, and finally
Rachel Singer as a dying young women just looking to get laid for
the last time. I can't say that I really liked, or even disliked
Fight Club, but it is a very interesting story, and the
filmmakers did an excellent job with it. So for the About-Movies.com
rating I give it nine couches based mainly on the originality of
the film. Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:45:35 AM |