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Post date: Nov 14, 2020 3:18:57 PM
"Fight Club" is a very stylized examination of male angst of living in the later part of the 20th century.
The movie starts with the narrator explaining his life which is full of all the stuff that should make the modern man happy. At least according to the advertising. He finds life cold and lonely. Everyone is going through life without feeling. Everything is in his life is single-serving and disposal. He even describes his human contact that way. By accident, he discovers a self help group where people are connecting and he starts to be consumed by the feeling he gets from there. This leads him on a path away from societal norms.
Everything about this story seems very anarchistic. Questioning the "rules" that has held later part of the 20th century together. If more people decide not to play by the rules, society would fall apart.
I find it interesting to compare the ending of "Fight Club" to the ending of "Sixth Sense". Both of the movies has a "surprise" at the end. I find the effects to the movie is completely opposite.
In "Sixth Sense", we are lead through a movie which purports to talk about death, loss, and redemption. However, the twist at the end shows us that it was all a distraction to hide the trick the director pulled on us. The director even points out all the places he tricked us by having us foolishly follow the story. The director squandered the emotional impact of the story by insulting the audience. The audience get the last laugh because that movie destroyed his career. He can no longer emotional engage an audience. Every just watches it from the outside looking for the twist. If there is no twist, people are disappointed.
In "Fight Club", we are lead down a path of loneliness and angst. I find the surprise does not take away from the movie and maybe even adds to it.
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