Fight Club Movie Review Essay

Fight Club Movie Review

Overview of the story

Fight Club is a 1999 American film, which based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. fight club was directed by David Fincher,and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton, the unnamed protagonist and the narrator is an investigator of a automobile company, who suffers from insomnia. Also, as he wants escape from the boring routine life, he tries to join a cancer support group to encounter some people who are in tragic situation, reminding himself that he is happy. In the same time, he meets Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who is also a fake attendance of the group, he suffers from insomnia again.

Later on, on a flight home from business trip, the narrator

You wake up at LaGuardia. You wake up at Logan", which makes the details of the original novel can be presented in the movie. Through this way of interpretation, the audience can think what the narrator thinks and feel the changes of his mood in the subjective way.

Also this narrative technique help creating a trap of the story, the film never tell us what is the name of the protagonist. In the film one of the rules of fight club is”you need to abandon yourself, in the film Tyler: “You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You 're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” (Fincher 1999)

On the other side, in order to let us fall into the trap of the story, the key to lead us to the story is the protagonist, using the first person point of view, can easily let the audience to project the protagonist to their own self, and believe what have been happened to the protagonist is real. So when the film comes to the end, and the narrator find out that he is Tylor, it reverts the audience 's knowledge of the story and make the audience fall into the trap, in order to make the story more dramatic and