7. The Fight Club

Títle: The Fight Club
Director:  David Fincher

Country: U.S.A.
Year: 1999
Runnig time: 139´
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena BonHam Carter, Jared Letto

Selected by:  Notoriusly Grim

 
Until now, everything in our English Cineclub has been more o less pleasant and nice, with the desire or intention of liking to everyone. Until now. This has finished. It’s the turn to a movie that, without any doubt, could be disgusting for some of you. A violent, dark and disturbing movie. 

But, in my defense, I must say that it is always brilliant. And that is one of my favorite ones. The Fight Club, has become with time, a what is called a "Cult movie”. In that way are called that kind of movies that certainly doesn’t like to everyone, but, if you like it, you will love it. That´s precisely our case. Despite that The Fight Club didn´t succeed when it was played, now  is one of that “cult movies”. 

The movie is based on a book, by Chuck Palahniuck, but thanks to Mr. Fincher, we have now a fantastic film. He built a masterpiece, and there are too many angles from you can watch "The Fight Club". I will try to show you some of them.

You can only enjoy a very entertained movie, full of rhythm, and eat pizza and pop corns. That could be fine, I suppose.

But I think that there is a lot more under the surface. Actually, if you pay attention, you can discover that every scene is a piece of art itself, and in any one you can discover something. Just from the intro. And even before the intro, if you paid attention.  

Of course, you should also enjoy the plot, which is one of those that you will need to see twice. 
 

Or you can enjoy with the terrific work of two actors, especially Norton, but also Mr. Pit. Norton is the chameleonic one, playing the main character, and the important voice over. He appears in almost every scene, and he is impressive. And Mr. Pitt, playing the character of a man that any man would like to be: disgustingly handsome, smart, strong, he can fight, he make shout a woman in the bed, he can do everything, he is free. I suppose that this is more a man movie that a  woman-kind-of-movie, but, in any case our girls can always enjoy with Pitt half-naked, without T-shirt…  Anyway, I prefer him when he wears the bath robe.

Don´t forget the music,  that is great, electronic, always close to the scenes. My favorite is the one by The Pixies, with the electric guitar and the fantastic chorus: Where is my mind, at the end of the movie. But from the intro I found the soundtrack perfect.

And what about the numerous sentences or quotes to remember?  I´ve adopted some of them to my real life, like :"The things you own end up owning you", or "You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world." I must confess that I do not know what exactly means the "all-dancing crap thing", but even so, I´ve adopted it.

Because, finally,  you can also see the movie under a philosophical way, so to speak. The movie talks about this world that we have now, where we must live without religion, great goals or leaders. The communism and the Berlin Wall fell down, and we have no way to go. We have to go through these difficult times, under the absolute dictatorship of unbridled consumerism. People need someone to follow,  ideals to believe in. The film leave me thinking about all of these subjects and more. 

Because I am an all-singing crap of the world, and I know it.