Fight Club Review (1999)
The story revolves around a thirty something year old man who tries to seek a way out of his normal day to day life with the help of a soap salesman. They form a number of underground fight clubs, which at first appears to be nothing but boxing matches and harmless fun, soon gets out of hand that seals his and everyone’s fate around.
I had no clue as to the shocking surprise I would get when I watched the film, just looking at the cover made me think it would be about a fight club, and to a certain degree I was right. The narrative itself takes off just like you’d expect of most films to, we meet the protagonist, he wants to find a way to escape reality, and he gets a helping hand from a soap salesman. Now all seems normal for some duration of the film, but as more and more questions and clues arise, so to do the answers (warning spoilers). To find out why the events that previously took place occurred is mind boggling, the fact that he has a split personality that wants to take control. You think to yourself how could this have happened, and that’s where the smart arrangement of scenes take place, because we are then taken back to certain scenes within the film, but they have changed as to show what truly happened. For example, when he’s in the fighting club and he starts to fight the soap salesman , that’s not what truly happens, in fact, who he was really fighting was himself! The scene shows that he’s beating and punching himself consistently, and yet the crowd around do not stop him, in fact they continue to cheer on.
This is one of those films that likes to put questions on the table, that we actually want to find the answer to, and at times we may either get the answers or we may just end up with more questions, that become unanswered. It is because of this however that the film is still held as one of the greats to the present day, and even now it is still being produced to DVD for selling.
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