Fight Club (1999)

The ultimate cult film, IMO
This is an absolutely original movie, unlike anything else. Its a satire with a really grim sense of humor. Designed to encourage thought rather than to just entertain. The situations are just presented straightforwardly & the audience is left to make up its own mind. I'm grateful somebody's making intelligent films like this & we get a choice & an occasional change of pace. This is quite possibly the weirdest mainstream movie out there & extremely worth the viewer's trouble. The 3 leads are fantastic & they all do a top-notch job. I read the book after seeing the flick & I'm glad I did it in that order. The movie's plot twist wasn't ruined for me beforehand & I got a better understanding from the book. For example, in the book its explained that Tyler Durden gets all his clothes from the lost-and-found at bus stations & so forth. So you see why he dresses so strangely. Again, only try this one if you're looking for something unusual.

Many miss the point
I'm amazed at how few reviewers understand the message of this movie is:Modernity is inherently alienating and dehumanizing, ANY kind of re humanization is better than none or rather that it's inevitable that humans will eventually be thrust back together in more tribal-type relations and that although the form that this will take will often be ugly the process is both necessary and better than the alternative (the cube,the suburbs etc). The fight club doesn't represent the corruption of the characters, it is their salvation! The fact that they have to be saved in such an ugly way just high lites how pathetic their normal lives are. The fight club represents a true society albeit one that is very brutal and unsustainable (versus one like out own that is temporal,artificial ultimately irrelevant[since it really can't inform the future]). Maybe it's just because I have reading so much about Bedouins for the last 2 years but it just was very recognizable to me. The fact is that wherever or whenever you go, a real economy of human relations will have certain basic traits:it will be relatively small (50-200 people),it will have a hierarchy based on ability and needs, it will be efficient and it will be intimate. A beautiful,timely film.

Matt

a good buy
I received the movie in a very timely manner and am satisfied with my purchase.