Fight Club Was The Best Movie Of The Nineties
Posted on July 26, 2010
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If you haven’t seen it yet, Fight Club was, in fact, one of the most culturally and artistically important films of the last ten or twenty years. Just as movies like Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas started the decade off with a bang, Fight Club finished it off with an even bigger one. It’s definitely one of the must download movies of the last thirty years or so.
The movie follows Edward Norton as the unnamed Narrator. We never find out his name. He works a dull, soul crushing white collar job. The movie came out about the same time as Office Space, and the two are compared quite often. They both follow some of the same trains of thought in terms of where they get their material, but Fight Club takes it in a much darker direction, while still actually remaining just as funny as the other film, in spite of not technically being a comedy film.
The narrator meets Tyler Durden, and the rest is history. Durden is a character who is completely free of the boundaries of society placed on most people. You know Kramer, from Seinfeld? He’s kind of like that. Just, imagine how dangerous, frightening, and at the same time, inspiring, Kramer would be if you took him out of the sitcom setting and put him into a world where his actions could result in serious consequences.
Tyler is really the heart of the film, forming the Fight Club alongside the narrator. The Fight Club begins innocently enough as a bare knuckle get together where white collar guys get together and beat each other up for the fun of it and to reaffirm their manhood in a society that has sissified them and turned them into cowardly cubicle slaves rather than raw, testosterone driven animals.
From there, it grows into a cultural movement, and a dangerous one, at that. It’s fascinating seeing just how far it goes. It shows that there’s a lot of rage and anger out there. It doesn’t seem that far fetched that so many people would catch on to the ideas Durden puts forth, and while parts of the movie are outlandish, this part is not.
The finale, the way the movie ties everything together, it’s very interesting. It’s kind of frightening, it’s exciting, and it’s kind of funny. In the end, all of the details about Durden and the Narrator are, if not quite solved, at least developed into something you’ll enjoy thinking about.
Norton quickly skyrocketed in fame with this movie, proving that he could take some really exciting projects and make the most of them. Since, his career has had a lot of ups and downs, with a cool, edgy flick one year, and some weak box office bait the next. This is one of his best, though, and the same goes for Brad Pitt.
The movie is incredibly violent, it’s very surreal. Outside of the violence, some of the details involving the making of soap are disgusting. The movie uses these shock tactics to really get under your skin and make a statement about humanity and the nature of shock, and in the end, it has more questions than it does answers, like any honest film.
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