Friday, September 21, 2012

Fight Club

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?


Here I am... about to break the first rule of Fight Club:

The ultimate in cult classics. I film which I will quote until I'm dead, a film I can watch over and over and smile at the reprise and intellectuality. A film in which one character never fears from telling the truth. In a society where things become more coveted than anything else, many don'te remember who they really are. "You're not you're 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. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world." The idea based on the most masculine characters - men. Most whom have lost sight of what it is to be something other than a waiter, or store clerk - but in fact a living and breathing human.

The things you own end up owning you. When faced with materialism, only when you've lost everything - are you truly free to do anything.

Anything, which constitues the creation of a nationwide string of fight clubs. Something these men need. Something they crave. And they beging war against a consumer based society. When you pit the little guys, against the big guys, corporate mongols and franchises businesses are significantly outnumbered. And built within the brilliant mind of Tyler Durden, they are unstoppable.

Quit your job.
Start a fight.
Prove you're alive.
Prove your humanity, 
and don't become a statistic. 

Year: 1999
Rating: R
Actors: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter
My R: Watch it more than once.

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