Film Analysis: Fight Club

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At first, I expected Fight Club to be another tedious action film about a bunch of guys fighting, judging from the name of the movie. When I watched the movie however, it was nothing as I expected; the movie does not have much of the actual fighting. The story is about a narrator who has everything, but still lives a miserable life. He has a successful job as an office worker, he gets well payed, and lives in an apartment that looks like it has been taken straight out of an IKEA catalogue. Nonetheless, these things does not bring him happiness. There is a void inside of him, which makes him feel emotionless and on top of that, he is also an insomniac. We never get to find out the narrators real name, he is acted by the star Edward Norton in an excellent way. The narrator attends to various support groups for critical diseases that he really does not have. In return, …show more content…
He is attractive, intelligent, capable and unrestricted. Besides all of that, his leadership qualities are excellent. He does not fear anything, and he totally rejects the idea of living an unexciting life. Durden find no temptation in materialistic things, meanwhile the narrator had gotten to the point where he felt like his furniture was a part of him as a person. Durden encourage the narrator to live like him, and Tyler teaches him how to live fearlessly.
The narrator moves into Tyler’s dilapidated house, and together they live a life that is not commercially based. They return to the bar and start a fight once again in the parking lot, because they both find satisfaction in feeling pain, and this time they attracted a crowd. When they realize that other people show interest in their fights, they establish a small group known as Fight Club in the basement of the bar. Those who decided to join the club had to follow a few rules, the first and most important rule to never speak about Fight

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