What A Movie! essays

What A Movie! essays Wow! Fight Club is a wonderful and exciting movie. David Fincher who previously directed the movie Seven, (also staring Brad Pit) takes a novel by Chuck Palahniuk and puts it to life on the big screen with great results. Fight Club is original as well as entertaining and is definitely an energetic movie with lots of visuals. I have never seen anything quite like it. The most important thing about this movie is the message in the storyline, the first class acting by Edward Norton And Brad Pit is just icing on the cake. David Fincher directs the story of a lonely middle-class working guy (Norton) who begins to fall apart when he starts to realize the worthlessness of his existence. Edward Norton, whose characters name is never mentioned, becomes addicted to self-help groups because he is an Insomniac. The groups are the only way that he can sleep. A woman and Hypochondriac (Marla Singer) who joins all the same groups messes everything up. Norton is unable to sleep again. Thats when Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) shows up. A do what you want, live fast, die young kind of guy. This persona that Tyler carries has Norton Idolizing him. The two of them end up forming an underground gang of men from all walks of life. The gang is called Fight Club and the object is to relieve their frustrations of life by fighting each other. Tyler Durden the ringleader of it all gives his recruits new hope about their lifes and gives them all something to believe in. In one scene Pitt is talking to the men before the night o f fighting and says to them, I see an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we dont need. We are the middle children of history with no purpose or place. We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war; our great depression is our lives. The importance of ones life i...