Fight Club (1999)

"Welcome to Fight Club. 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: if someone yells "stop!", goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight. "

"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."

Probabil asta e citatul care descrie cel mai bine actiunea din film. Dar sa spunem ceva despre film, nu din film:P

Filmul urmareste satira lui Chuck Palahniuk, pusa intr-o maniera foarte tipica de David Fincher, filmul te lasa sa-ti tragi tu singur concluziile. Este o comedie neagra care merita sa o revezi de cateva ori.

Spre deosebire de American Beauty, acest film da o solutie la viata mediocra si superficiala dusa de oameni. Dar sa nu credeti ca instiga la violenta, la bataie, este doar un mod metaforic de a te elibera, de a fi tu insuti.

Personajul principal, care este defapt si naratorul filmului (Edward Norton) este un evaluator de accidente de masina, la o corporatie foarte mare. Este un tip foarte destept, dar cu o viata sociala care lipseste cu esavarsire. Este tipul de om descris la inceput, in citatul din film.

Naratotul sufera de insomnii, incearca sa le trateze mergand la anumite grupuri de intalniri pentru oameni cu probleme (cancer, leucemie, droguri, alcool, etc). Dupa cateva sesiuni isi recapata somnu, dar asta nu tine mult, caci la aceste intalniri apare o femeie, Marla (Helen Bohan Carter), care ca si el e o prefacuta. Totusi cei doi ajung la un acord comun si in cele din urma se imprietenesc.

In timpul unei delegatii il intalneste pe Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), un comerciant de sapunuri, care e tot ceea ce naratorul nu este. Cei doi se imprietensc si descopera ca cel mai bine se pot exterioriza batandu-se.

In cele din urma li se duce vestea si infiinteaza un club de lupte la care adera barbati de pe tot teritoriul Americii. Scopul lor principal este sa scape lumea de minciuni si de superficialitate, toate concretizandu-se intr-un proiect final, Project Mayhem.

"Fight Club was the beginning, now it's moved out of the basement, it's called Project Mayhem"

Filmul a fost nominalizat la Oscar si mai are la activ alte 14 nominalizari si 4 castiguri.