23 years of Fight Club: A movie that still sends shivers down your spine

How will you feel if you cannot sleep for months? In the words of Fight Club’s ‘Narrator’, nothing is real if you are insomniac and “Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.” 23 years ago in 1999, Fight Club was released. Its director David Fincher adapted the movie from Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel that has the same title. A dismantled capitalist society with corruption that ultimately resulted in destructive corporate and consumer culture is what Fincher showed in this movie.

In the beginning of the movie, we see Edward Norton playing the nameless narrator. Norton, who works as a recall coordinator in an automobile company is diagnosed with insomnia. An average middle class American Norton is also a regular visitor of cancer support groups even after not being a patient of cancer. The movie shows that, he actually visits the groups to get in touch with emotions, and it ultimately helps him getting out of insomnia. 

However, we see another major character Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter here as another tourist of these groups. After meeting her, the narrator’s insomnia unfortunately turns back to its previous state. Since she was also a ‘faker’ like him, her presence was like a mirror to him.

We also meet another character named Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt. A mysterious guy, works night shifts, does various kinds of jobs and makes soap bars! At this moment, the movie takes an interesting turn in. It shows that, Tyler makes soap out of human fat that are retrieved from liposuction. However, these soaps are used as a cover-up for nitroglycerin that is used in making bombs. Yes, all along, Tyler’s plan was to make as many bombs as he can, and the reason behind it is revealed at the very end of the movie.

The scene when Tyler meets the narrator is also interesting. “I want you to hit me as hard as you can,” said Tyler, and this was the starting point of their ‘Fight Club’. The club certainly represents the darker side of American development, in another sense, the rise of capitalism. 

With many controversies, the movie has rigorous violent scenes with disturbing images of self-harm, use of slang, blur between moral and immoral. With the scenes where low waged American men aggressively fight with each other, David Fincher showed what capitalism and consumer culture can do. Although ‘fight club’ started its journey as a medium for men to relieve their animalistic self, it soon spread into a much larger sense. Fincher showed that, Tyler along with the narrator builds a terrorist group in their old house to demolish society’s ‘so called’ rules. Alongside, this movie also portrays characters’ mental conflicts. The movie reveals that, Tyler is none other than a split identity of the narrator, and all the aggressive things he was doing were actually done by the narrator himself.



As I have mentioned, the movie is adapted from a novel, their ending is slightly different. It is believed that, David Fincher did this to preserve the mystery of Fight Club. Yes, not everyone will like it, and I understand that as well. But those who do like it, could understand its mysterious beauty,

 


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