Movies I have seen too many times: Fight club

Fight club is one of my all-time favourite movies. What I love most about it, is that this movie is not what it seems. At first glance, you might think it is just about these guys being bored with life and not caring about all the superficial stuff in today’s world.

Or perhaps you just see Fight Club as another movie involving pointless and needless violence. However, I love that during the course of the movie you find out that things are not at all as they seemed. In fact, the story being told is really a different one.

In case you are one of the few people on this planet who are not familiar with this movie, here is a short summary of the plot:

Edward Norton (who I love in almost everything, do not ask me why) plays a boring automobile company employee with a bad case of insomnia. During a flight for a business trip, he meets Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt).

When he arrives home he finds out his apartment has been destroyed by an explosion, and he calls Tyler and moves in with him. Tyler lives in an unbelievably dirty and broken down apartment, which apparently suits him just fine.

While they are having a fight in the parking lot, they attract quite a crowd, and decide to establish a fight club in a bar’s basement. The fight club becomes more and more popular, and eventually they expand to having fight clubs all over the country.

Fight club becomes Project Mayhem, which commits increasingly destructive acts of anti-capitalist vandalism in the city. At some point Tyler disappears and Edward tries to trace Tyler's steps to see what exactly he has been up to. That is when he finds out a very shocking truth about Tyler Durden.

You can read the entire review here.

I must have seen this movie at least a dozen times, and I still think it is just as great as the first time I saw it. Maybe even more so now, because I know what the movie is really about and I watch it in a different way.

It is not like most of my other movies I have seen too often, but I definitely love it.