Fight Club

Entertainment is a very large topic, covering an array of items, things, etc. There are a few staple items, however, that people usually think about when they think of entertainment, especially today’s entertainment, or modern entertainment. A few of those staple entertaining things are music, film, reading, and even more. Today, I am going to write about a movie. This movie that I am going to be writing about is now around sixteen years old. This movie is Fight Club.

Fight Club, as previously states, was released into theatres around sixteen years ago. The release year was nineteen ninety-nine (1999). The movie had two lead actors, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, with Norton being the more prominent actor, if you will. The movie lasts around two and a half hours, and it is a bit of a thinker movie, as some would say. As the title suggests, the movie has to do with a fight club. Going along with the subject, there are quite a few fights in the film. Even though it is a very good film, in my opinion at least, there is a lot of violence and blood, as well as language and some sexual content. That is why the film is rated R. That being said, a warning before you watch the movie, if you do.

(***WARNING SPOILERS***)

The movie, as stated previously, is kind of about a fight club. An insomniac office worker, Norton, meets a soap salesman, Pitt, and they start a fight club at a bar together. Due to an explosion in his apartment, Norton is forced to move in with Pitt. More and more people start to join their fight club, and they expand it. Also, a girl enters both of their lives, which complicates matters. However, the fight club also expands around the same time. It becomes, as they call it, project mayhem. Project mayhem quickly expands and it soon becomes a small terrorist organization, not causing harm to any people, but instead destroying either stores, buildings, or public pieces or art, such as statues. However, this is all done at night to keep from inflicting any damage upon and hurting anyone. This is when things get weird. (Now, here come the major spoilers, so if you ever want to watch this movie I advise you to stop reading this blog now.) It is revealed that Norton is not just suffering from insomnia. He also has split personality disorder. Pitt is Norton. Norton is Pitt. They are one and the same. While Pitt led project mayhem and fight club, Norton was just imagining it was Pitt while he was the one doing it. While Pitt was involved with the girl, Norton was the person really involved with her, he just thought Pitt was. This means that the big project mayhem event coming up, that “Pitt” planned with everyone, is really in the back of Norton’s mind. Racing against time to try and stop the catastrophe, Norton gets held up multiple times as project mayhem people are all around. However, he ends up in the top of the only skyscraper not to be blown up and destroyed, all alone with Pitt. Up there, multiple things are revealed. Pitt is Norton, or at least who Norton wants to be. Norton hated his old life. Pitt is the guy that Norton wishes he could’ve been. Pitt, from a psychological standpoint, is like Norton’s id. Norton and Pitt standoff, more mentally than physically. Physically, whatever happens to one happens to the other. Norton realizes that there is no way he can call off what is about to happen, and he hates what he has become, or more specifically Pitt, and who Pitt has become. He decides to end it, so he shoots himself in the mouth. He all of a sudden points the gun barrel in his mouth a pulls the trigger. Bam! Pitt is gone. Norton goes limp. Just then the girl and the project mayhem men all come up and see Norton, sitting there, blood gushing out his head and down his body. It is revealed Norton shot through his cheek, not killing him, but causing himself a severe amount of pain. He then holds hands with the girl, and they watch all the skyscrapers explode around the city. Together.

Fight Club is a very good movie. A very big thinker too. There are many different aspects and layers to it. All in all, it is a very entertaining movie and I highly recommend to watch it.

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