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If you haven’t seen it yet, Fight Club was, in fact, one of the most culturally and artistically important films of the last ten or twenty years. Just as movies like Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas started the decade off with a bang, Fight Club finished it off with an even bigger one. It’s definitely one of the must download movies of the last thirty years or so.

The movie follows Ed Norton as an unnamed narrator who serves as our lead character. He’s a white collar office worker dissatisfied with his lot in life, and the movie draws a lot of comparisons to Office Space which came out around the same time. The two films are very different, however. They use much of the same subject matter, but Fight Club is much darker, much more brooding, while at the same time… Just as funny, albeit in a darker, more sarcastic sort of way.

The movie really picks up when the Narrator meets Tyler Durden, a man who has no regard for the rules of normal society. He’s sort of like Cosmo Kramer with a copy of The Stranger and a sense of testosterone driven anger. He’s scary, funny, and sort of inspiring. Definitely a man with ideas. Not all of them good, but at least he’s got ideas.

Tyler is really the heart of the film, forming the Fight Club alongside the narrator. The Fight Club begins innocently enough as a bare knuckle get together where white collar guys get together and beat each other up for the fun of it and to reaffirm their manhood in a society that has sissified them and turned them into cowardly cubicle slaves rather than raw, testosterone driven animals.

Once they start robbing banks and trying to take over the world, you see that the Fight Club is an expression of rage, that impotent rage that all men feel in a society that has castrated them in a symbolic way. The movie is outlandish and surreal, but this part isn’t. That anger is very real, and it seems entirely realistic that, given the right catalyst, men really could just go crazy and start blowing things up for no good reason (heck some guys already do it).

The ending is really something. Since then, it’s become sort of cliche to end with a big twist about who’s who, but at the time, it was really a new idea and it worked really well. A little gimmicky, maybe not even necessary to the purposes of the film, but it was really a surprise when you saw it the first time.

Norton quickly skyrocketed in fame with this movie, proving that he could take some really exciting projects and make the most of them. Since, his career has had a lot of ups and downs, with a cool, edgy flick one year, and some weak box office bait the next. This is one of his best, though, and the same goes for Brad Pitt.

The movie is incredibly violent, it’s very surreal. Outside of the violence, some of the details involving the making of soap are disgusting. The movie uses these shock tactics to really get under your skin and make a statement about humanity and the nature of shock, and in the end, it has more questions than it does answers, like any honest film.

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