Fight Club

I have many favorite movies; I think I have one of almost each genre. But there is a movie I really like: The Fight Club. This is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel with the same name (1996). I don’t remember when I saw for first time, but I remember that I watched it for second time in the philosophy class in about 3th middle. At that age I couldn’t get hooked but I ask the teacher for a copy. A couple of years later I saw it again and I started to get all the things that make this film a masterpiece.

The film is the history of “the narrator”, a guy who had a well-paid but bored job. After a job flight he realizes his floor had exploded, he calls Tyler Durden, a guy he met on the plane and they started to live together. Tyler and the narrator started a Fight Club where people met to fight after work. Tyler’s plan is to make the people enjoy its life out of consumism. He creates a vandalism group to break people's every-day routine, but one of them was killed by a policeman. The narrator tries to stop this group and he realizes that he and Tyler Durden was the same person, Tyler is his brave alter-ego, a guy who will make things the narrator will never do.

I love this movie because it shows contemporary society problems and it has tons of brilliant phrases, such as:

“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”