Fight Club

1999

Director: David Fincher

Distributor: Fox Movies

Key Elements: Concept – Lines – Characters

My Review:

Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, fight club represents the angst of a generation of men who have been trained in domesticity and not masculinity. Longing for something hard and meaningful and wild, they let go of all the trivial things they have been told to value and retreat into secret places to toughen themselves against each other.

At least that’s what the first half of the movie is about. I tend to stop watching about halfway through because in the second half of the movie the characters become terrorists. I didn’t see the purpose for this.

This movie makes an important statement about the state of modern masculinity.

Trailer:



Quotes:

• This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time… If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
• When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep... and you're never really awake.
  You have to know the answer to this question! If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?
• I am Jack's wasted life.
• You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis.
• I want you to hit me as hard as you can.
• The first rule of Fight Club is - you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is - you DO NOT talk about Fight Club. Third rule of Fight Club, someone yells Stop!, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule, only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule, one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule, no shirt, no shoes. Seventh rule, fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.
• You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick.
• Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic.
• Tell him the liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perception.
• We are a generation of men raised by women.
• Did you know if you mixed equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate you can make napalm?
• First you have to give up, first you have to *know*... not fear... *know*... that someday you're gonna die.
• People do it everyday, they talk to themselves... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it.

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