FIGHT CLUB: An incredible watch
“Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!”
‘Fight Club (1999)’ is simply a masterpiece! This movie has been adapted from a novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. I am not sure if it should be placed under Psychological Thrillers or Comical Satires, because it is a perfect blend of both. Along with an amazing plot twist I was so drawn by the way it hit the chords of today’s consumerist society.
There are just too many lines in the movie that you can’t get over, I am quoting a few of them over here.
This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.
This is how steeply the movie plunges into human behaviour right from the beginning. Ironic that the knowledge of approaching death brought people more closer than all their lives ever could.
You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fu**ing khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
The way this dialogue has been delivered in the movie, you can’t help but feel it right through you like a punch. And after all, Fight Club is about fights, and to that, not just the physical ones. It’s about the pain that makes you real, that kills you and then resurrects you. It projects how a normal person does everything he can to avoid a fight, while deep below we all crave destruction of beautiful things which we can’t own, and sometimes that includes ourselves.
We’re consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.
The things you own end up owning you.
The movie sharply targets consumerism and shows a mirror to how we have become corporate slaves in ‘white-collars’. We buy products that would define us, we hold onto our belongings and console ourselves that we are getting close to being complete with all that stuff piling up in our homes.
Everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you’re proud of will end up as trash.
It reflects upon the temporariness of everything in this world, including our lives. It keeps reminding us how the survival rate of everyone drops to zero on a long enough timeline.
Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?
There is a scene in the movie where the main character(s) faces an accident and calls it a near-life experience rather than a near-death experience. And a philosophy of living life without trying to control everything springs up, the philosophy of letting go.
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.
The way all the idea delivering details have been subtly inculcated in all the scenes and the backdrop, it’s outrightly awesome! When the movie ends, it all connects in unending loops. It’s one hell of a movie! One that represents everything that is wrong with our lives today. Some say that the plot devised extreme scenarios which will never happen in real life, but hey, it’s a satire, that’s the whole point of it!
Let the fights, the havoc, the mischief and the vandalism begin!!!
