About Me 
A nameless first person narrator (Edward Norton) attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. When he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), another fake attendee of support groups, his life seems to become a little more bearable. However when he associates himself with Tyler (Brad Pitt) he is dragged into an underground fight club and soap making scheme. Together the two men spiral out of control and engage in competitive rivalry for love and power.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/
| Role | Details |
|---|---|
| Director | David Fincher |
| Screenplay | Jim Uhls |
| Based on | Chuck Palahniuk’s novel ‘Fight Club’ |
| Producer | Art Linson, Ceán Chaffin, Ross Grayson Bell |
| Starring | Brad Pitt, Edward Norton |
| Editor | James Haygood |
| Production company | Fox 2000 Pictures |
| Distributor | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date | October 15, 1999 (USA) |
| Running time | 139 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Budget | $63–65 million |
| Box office | $101.2 million |
My review
この作品は、1999年にできたと思えないくらいの感想度であり、現代を映し出したかのような内容になっている。
『暇と退屈の倫理学（國分 功一郎）』を読んで観たすぎて観た。
まさかそのような解釈がある作品だとは思わず、この本を読んだ後だと今までと違った観点で見れて趣深かった。
でもたしかに、主人公の家が燃えた後にバーでタイラーと交わしていた、「消費社会の奴隷である」
この作品が1999年であることを考えると、今のわたしたちの生活は消費社会に巻き込まれた抜け出せない人かもしれない
調べたいろいろ
First of all, the main characters in the movie “Fight Club” are the protagonist (narrator), Tyler Durden, and Marla Singer. Each of these characters has a strong personality, and the story unfolds through the contrast between them.
If you watch the movie until the end, it becomes clear that Tyler is the protagonist’s alter ego. The question here is how the protagonist, who lived a normal life, changed into such an extreme person as Tyler.
The protagonist suffered from insomnia. His job is to decide product recalls, and he is surrounded by “single-serving” objects and people every day. The luxurious apartment and brand furniture in which he lives are symbols of consumerism and materialism, and his seemingly satisfying life actually creates a sense of spiritual emptiness and alienation.
On the other hand, Tyler is a symbol of the radical and destructive freedom that lurks within the protagonist. He points out the problems with the protagonist’s current situation, saying things like, “Your possessions will possess you,” and appeals for rebellion against consumer society. Tyler believes that we should pursue a life that is not bound by material things, and tries to achieve freedom through violence and destruction.
Marla, in contrast to Tyler, is a realistic yet chaotic character. She symbolizes the protagonist’s point of contact with reality, and plays the role of forcing him to confront the “reality” that he had been avoiding.
What is interesting is that Tyler himself has not been able to completely escape the framework of consumer society. He tries to deny consumerism, but in reality he provides new “products” in the form of “charisma” and “violence.” The fight club that he creates also functions as a place where participants consume themselves and process their emotions through violence, and while it seems to deny consumer society, it actually reproduces consumer behavior in a different form.
Also, the reason why Tyler has a different expertise from the protagonist is because he is a culmination of the information accumulated unconsciously by the protagonist. For example, the fragmented knowledge gained in work and life is extremely connected through the personality of Tyler, and knowledge of bombs and chemicals is embodied. This also suggests that Tyler is not just a fictional character, but reflects the repressed aspects of the protagonist.
Finally, unlike Tyler, Marla is a real person and not something the protagonist has created as a fantasy. However, she also plays a symbolic role and is an important key to the protagonist’s confrontation with the real world. As the story progresses, the protagonist’s confrontation with Marla becomes a process for him to free himself from Tyler’s fantasy and accept his own reality.
Impressive reviews from other watchers
Positive
Superb
Superb, and truly one of the greatest movies of all time.
It starts with the screenplay. Adapted from, and very faithful to, an excellent book. The book by Chuck Palahniuk was perfect for a movie: vivid, powerful, challenging, original, unpredictable. Considering how perfectly formed the book already was, the screenplay would have been a doddle.
Some very interesting themes are explored – consumerism, class warfare, multiple-personality disorder, male bonding, terrorism and anarchy – without being judgemental.
Direction is spot-on. Perfect cinematography, pacing and editing. The twists and nuances of the book are captured perfectly.
Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are perfectly cast as the two lead characters, and deliver in spades. Helena Bonham Carter is a strange selection to take on the role of Marla, as she tends to act in Shakespearean dramas and other period pieces. However, despite this, her performance is very convincing.
An absolute classic.
Negative
Revisiting Fight Club
Fight Club isn’t a bad movie, but it’s not nearly as good as people make it out to be.
It really comes off as a pretentious piece of work for film students to study to the point of exhaustion, but I don’t think it was ever intended to be that. The movie plays out, with a few key alterations, as a scene-by-scene retelling of the book, sometimes going so far as to lift paragraphs of inner monologue directly from the novel and plopping them into the script.
It’s a movie that requires at least two viewings but, beyond that, it gets boring in a pretty big hurry. Particularly toward the end of the second act/beginning of the third, it’s so painfully bland and boring that it’s difficult to care about anything that’s happening at all (around the whole Project Mayhem stuff). It’s difficult to maintain any kind of focus throughout.
There’s a lot of stuff hidden in this movie for people to go back and revisit, too, but most of it is inessential. Honestly, having looked back at some of the Easter eggs, it leaves the question: who cares? And of course this is an unpopular opinion to have, but I held off on reviewing this title in the honest hopes that multiple viewings would raise the rating. I even read Palahniuk’s novel to try to derive some additional meaning out of it.
Without giving away the ending, it makes you think, and it creates a nice gimmick to get people to watch it again but, as I said, beyond that I’m perfectly happy to close the chapter on this one and leave it in the past.
The first rule of fight club is that you don’t talk about fight club. And I’m happy to be done talking about this one for a good long while.
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