Fight Club
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My favourite movie is Fight Club. It is directed by David Fincher and based on the bestseller of an American contemporary writer Chuck Palahniuk. I will tell you the plot of the movie so that you will be able to decide whether you want to watch it or not.
We don't know the name of the narrator. He works as a Product Recall Specialist for a major car company. The stress of his job with his frequent business trips leads to perpetual jet lag. In addition, he is suffering from insomnia. His doctor refuses to give him medication and recommends him to attend a support group to witness greater suffering.
He visits a testicular cancer support group; at these sessions men share their problems with each other and cry. The narrator fools the victims into thinking that he also has testicular cancer. He finds that he can relieve his insomnia this way. He becomes addicted to support groups. He uses different aliases and attends different groups. Everything goes perfectly until Marla Singer, another imposter, gets in. The narrator is afraid that Marla will expose him. His insomnia comes back.
I think that from this moment on the character of Edward Norton falls in love with a young lady.
Later, in one trip on a plane he meets a charismatic Tyler Durden, the producer of soap. After coming back to New York, the narrator finds his apartment burned down and calls Tyler. Tyler invites him to his house to live in but asks for a favor: to hit him as hard as the narrator can. From this moment on their friendship starts. Tyler is an anarchist and sociopath, and he is against mass product consumption that is obsessed by many people. They, the narrator and Tyler Durden, organize Fight Club where men beat each other.
The first rule of Fight Club is “You don't talk about Fight Club.”
The second rule is “You don't talk about Fight Club.”
And the final, the eighth rule is “If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.” Fight Club becomes very popular among men and lets our unnamed narrator sleep again. Then, obsessed with his anarchistic ideas, Tyler forms "Project Mayhem”, the mission of which is to stop the product consumption-orientated civilization. They plan to blow up the Parker-Morris building, the tallest building in the world.
But the narrator is not comfortable with this organization, and when he starts to destroy it, he finds out that Tyler is just another personality of himself. Tyler had never existed. The unnamed narrator made him up to escape from the problems of his own life.
Uh… I forgot to mention that Tyler, or the narrator, becomes the lover of Marla. And in the end he witnesses all over the country people that are the members of Fight Club and Project Mayhem. Marla and he see bombs going off and buildings collapsing–the concluding end of our civilization.
What I love most of all in this movie is the acting of Brad Pitt. He is an imaginary Tyler Durden. He is so professional and cute. So I recommend you to watch this movie. You'll definitely like it.
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