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Fight Club, 1999
English
USA, Germany
Profile of Fight Club
The mood of Fight Club is mind bending, disturbing, and bleak. The plot centers around a losing-it hero, social decay, and a violence spree. It features dark humor and satire. Fight Club is a drama and thriller movie. Stylistically, it is postmodernist, is surreal, and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is realistic. Fight Club takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. It happens in the 1990s. It is based on a book. Fight Club is known for being a cult favorite, a modern classic, and original. It is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that it includes sexual content, profanity, and violent content.
Summary of Fight Club
Fight Club is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or "tourist," the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who immediately gets under his skin. However, while returning from a business trip, he meets a more intriguing character--the subversive Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). They become fast friends, bonding over a mutual disgust for corporate consumer-culture hypocrisy. Eventually, the two start Fight Club, which convenes in a bar basement where angry men get to vent their frustrations in brutal, bare-knuckle bouts. Fight Club soon becomes the men's only real priority; when the club starts a cross-country expansion, things start getting really crazy.
Like Tyler Durden himself, director David Fincher's Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is startlingly aggressive and gleefully mischievous as it skewers the superficiality of American pop culture. Outstanding performances by Norton and Pitt are supported by a razor-sharp script and an arsenal of stunning visual effects that include computer animation and sleight-of-hand editing. One of the most unique films of the late 20th century, Fight Club is a pitch-black comedy of striking intensity.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, Germany |
| Release date: | 21 September 1999 |
| Runtime: | 139 min |
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
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- by: Elvis Mitchell
Variety
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- by: David Rooney
Users Reviews
- 04.October.2012
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- by: mattbright
- mattbright rated this movie
10/10Must See
- 19.January.2011
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- by: Story_Ninja22
- Story_Ninja22 rated this movie10/10Must See
