Well this was unexpected wasn't it (Note to self: get better jokes). Well in wake of watching this film I have realized that the best way to attract a crowd is to follow a certain set of rules. RULE 1: You don't talk about That Indie Reviewer, Rule 2: YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT INDIE REVIEW!
(OKAY Maybe you can, please do)
Fight Club is about this man. Just a man you don't know the name of, and his life is SO boring. He has insomnia, he can't concentrate. It's like when you have stayed up every night to watch a midnight movie while your parents don't know for about two weeks (not that I would know anything about that). He is played by Edward Norton, who you will not see in anymore Incredible Hulk movies. He has his whole mid life crisis at thirty, feeling unfulfilled as an average white collar worker in an insurance firm and as a human being who just is stuck. Now here is where I admit freely to feeling stuck in a nowhere lifestyle or at least I am afraid of that. No feeling is worse than emptiness. That is until Tyler Durden pops in to his life. A soap seller played by a ripped Brad Pitt, he is just so psychotic and fun loving that you just go with it. To relieve the stress in their lives they start a club that people can just beat the crap out of each other until they tap out. But this is only the Beginning.
The visual flare of this film just pops with interest. I mean the animation is like those films made in the late 90's/early 2000's, like toy story blended with CSI: crime scene investigation. But there is more than that. The shots and cinematography is spectacular. You see the grittiness and filth of this world through Eds eyes and you feel pumped for the reactions these guys have. I feel as though this has a fairly subtle message on the economy and society. When you see it "through the eyes of Sherlock Holmes, you see the battlefield", well through the eyes of Tyler Durgen you see a level of the world you know you must not see. When acknowledging the cast, each member contributes their personalities, like Brad Pitt being an eccentric, thrill seeking badass, Edward Norton playing a average Joe with a personality complex and Helena Boham Carter as a mysterious factory chimney of gruesome nature and quirky mannerisms.
We are bombarded by a whole reel of madness breaking through sanity, this wasn't how men dealt with life or the problems they have...or is it sanity breaking through this madness of life. Driving to work, catching up with our daily Starbucks coffee, filing our AR files into the blue section, trying not to imagine hitting our boss, having another late night meal of eating the leftovers of the leftovers and sleeping after sitting for an hour and a half thinking of ways to clear our mind. This is our sanity, it's not healthy to be self contained and insecure. Watching this, take note of the flickers happening every time Ed acknowledges or question of his insanity.
The film is plagued by the gruesome fact that life is cruel and unrelenting, moments arise that will put many at awkward levels yet to be reached by anyone who hasn't seen this or any other movie I have reviewed. So for those of you who can't stomach what hass been handed out so far, then you might like this film a little more. I think this is one of the best cult movies that I have seen so far (After Donnie Darko) and for many of you, as well as mainstream audiences, you will very much like this film. But like American Psycho its brutal and enjoys it, so don't watch it with your parents. Beautifully crafted, shot and executed, no wonder it is seen as one of the best films of all time.
(OKAY Maybe you can, please do)
Fight Club is about this man. Just a man you don't know the name of, and his life is SO boring. He has insomnia, he can't concentrate. It's like when you have stayed up every night to watch a midnight movie while your parents don't know for about two weeks (not that I would know anything about that). He is played by Edward Norton, who you will not see in anymore Incredible Hulk movies. He has his whole mid life crisis at thirty, feeling unfulfilled as an average white collar worker in an insurance firm and as a human being who just is stuck. Now here is where I admit freely to feeling stuck in a nowhere lifestyle or at least I am afraid of that. No feeling is worse than emptiness. That is until Tyler Durden pops in to his life. A soap seller played by a ripped Brad Pitt, he is just so psychotic and fun loving that you just go with it. To relieve the stress in their lives they start a club that people can just beat the crap out of each other until they tap out. But this is only the Beginning.
The visual flare of this film just pops with interest. I mean the animation is like those films made in the late 90's/early 2000's, like toy story blended with CSI: crime scene investigation. But there is more than that. The shots and cinematography is spectacular. You see the grittiness and filth of this world through Eds eyes and you feel pumped for the reactions these guys have. I feel as though this has a fairly subtle message on the economy and society. When you see it "through the eyes of Sherlock Holmes, you see the battlefield", well through the eyes of Tyler Durgen you see a level of the world you know you must not see. When acknowledging the cast, each member contributes their personalities, like Brad Pitt being an eccentric, thrill seeking badass, Edward Norton playing a average Joe with a personality complex and Helena Boham Carter as a mysterious factory chimney of gruesome nature and quirky mannerisms.
We are bombarded by a whole reel of madness breaking through sanity, this wasn't how men dealt with life or the problems they have...or is it sanity breaking through this madness of life. Driving to work, catching up with our daily Starbucks coffee, filing our AR files into the blue section, trying not to imagine hitting our boss, having another late night meal of eating the leftovers of the leftovers and sleeping after sitting for an hour and a half thinking of ways to clear our mind. This is our sanity, it's not healthy to be self contained and insecure. Watching this, take note of the flickers happening every time Ed acknowledges or question of his insanity.
The film is plagued by the gruesome fact that life is cruel and unrelenting, moments arise that will put many at awkward levels yet to be reached by anyone who hasn't seen this or any other movie I have reviewed. So for those of you who can't stomach what hass been handed out so far, then you might like this film a little more. I think this is one of the best cult movies that I have seen so far (After Donnie Darko) and for many of you, as well as mainstream audiences, you will very much like this film. But like American Psycho its brutal and enjoys it, so don't watch it with your parents. Beautifully crafted, shot and executed, no wonder it is seen as one of the best films of all time.
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