A travelling insomniac who gets his kicks by attending multiple support groups meets a handsome soap-saleman & then moves in with him. Classic pitch for dramedy with gay overtones. But that's not how this movie begins... it begins with the narrator getting the taste of gun-metal in his mouth (wink wink) while he's being tortured by the twisted saleman. I am Jack's bewildered brain.
Tyler Durden is irresistable. He's straightforward, he is charming; he is the unfiltered consciousness that probes into the moral system. The mirror that shouts out the ugly truths. The guy who knows the solution. For whom the physical combat and pain was a vent. The narration builds up the scenes beautifully and the audience is virtually as lost as the insomniac. The in-your-face violence and edge-of-the-seat suspense brings to front a brutal but brilliant masterpiece. All 3 of the main characters are very believable and obscene.
The performances were career bests according to me. & I really liked the blunt coming-of-age approach for all the anger and desperation of this generation.
ooooh, the dialogues, really juicy quotes all throughout the movie; I love:
- This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.
- On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
- The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.
- If I did have a tumor, I'd name it Marla.
- I am Jack's raging bile duct.
- The movie goes on... & nobody in the audience has any idea.
Favourite scenes include: the IKEA ad, the first fight, the stylish plans of Project Mayhem, the hotel-room scene of realisation, the awesome ending.
Alternate Ending: The bullethole in the cheek was way too much. That guy really had gone overboard. & the space-monkeys were too obedient. I'd like Blondie to do more. & Marla lost her seductive edge towards the end, I'd like to change that. The rebellion against consumerism was left unclimaxed, but then again, there really can never be a satisfactory answer.
First Viewed: with Kunal, on DVD in Brighton.
Rating-3.5*
(HINT: Tilt your screen back)
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