David Fincher's Fight Club (1999), starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham-Carter, centres around the life of an insomniac office worker whom has become trapped in a consumer's world. However through the help of Tyler Durden, he finds a way to break free from the shackles of the Ikea catalogue and corporate America; Fight Club. However, what starts as a means to briefly escape the artificial day for a moment of pure primal fulfilment, soon escalates into nation-wide anarchy.
This film meant a lot to me as it was the very film that acquired my full attention to cinema as an art form, rather than a cheap 90 minutes of story and two-dimensional characters. Fight Club instead included an incredible cast to truly do the characters justice, incredible cinematic effects (some before their time), and of course a brilliant story as chaotic as 'Project Mayhem' itself.
Although Fight Club is classified as a drama, the characters bring forth a mischievous demeanour allowing for some subtle humour amongst the overall dark overtones of the dystopia around them.
I found the motif of the form of the articles written by organs in the first person so personify the emotions of the unnamed narrator. These included:
I am Jack's raging bile duct
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise
I am Jack's broken heart
Fight Club is best known by the initiated for it's incredible twist (which I won't divulge as it would breach the first two rules of Fight Club), but I will say that the tiny clues leading up to the reveal make for great replay-ability.
An truly incredible piece that I would highly recommend to all.
Rating: 9/10
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