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People were telling me about the amazing value of the Fight Club while I thought that was but another guy flick, full of beating and with very little more. And then I saw it and loved it. The fight that was portrayed in its advertisement is of secondary nature and can be understood in such a manner if chosen to.
The first thing that one notices is the ease of the naration and that the film is very well written. It is a story about two men. Edward Norton stars as an urban loner, fighting his dissatisfaction with life by purchasing practically everything in sight, known only as a Narrator of this story, which will be explained as it progresses. So in order to deal with his pain, he starts visiting 12 step meetings, where in hugging the less fortunate he enjoys their suffering. His first meeting occurs among the victims of the testicular cancer, which sets the message of the film, it is about fear of emasculation. These scenes have a nice tone, they were written with an extreme care, and are mainly narrated. Only from time to time, a character passes through fast enough to not be visible enough for the camera. Now our hero begins to notice Marla (Helena Bonham Carter). She is coming to the meetings, like himself, to relieve herself of some sadistic and some masochistic tendencies. She spoils it for him, she is an embodiment of every lie he ever said to those people, a constant reminder that his pain is different. His job takes him to an aeroplane encounter with another key figure in his life, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) who seems to be able to look into the Narrator's soul. Shortly after, Narrator's apartment gets blown up, and he turns to Tyler for shelter. Two of them create a Fight Club, a secret society of men who meet in order to find freedom and self realization through expressing their sado-masochistic tendencies and frustrations in constant fights against each other. Most of those fights and homework he assigns its members have, as Narrator would comment, certain Tyler logic that is actually very wise. At one point Narrator and Tyler, pull the convenience store clerk out at a gunpoint, Tyler threatens to kill the clerk if the clerk does not return back to studying what he loves. Go To Page: 1 2
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