{"id":2821,"date":"2009-02-05T22:52:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T06:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2009-02-05T23:01:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T07:01:17","slug":"fight-club-david-fincher-1999-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999): U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Nicole Bacher<\/a>. Viewed at the 2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\"01_fight_club\"Fight Club<\/a><\/em>, directed by David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) is a pitch-black comedy that challenges your prejudices and leaves you wanting more. This film explores the world of sexual confusion, violence and brutality. This film also portrays the ultra-civilized realm of corporate conformity and control. The narrator, a depressed young man played by Edward Norton, who finds comfort in attending disease support groups, who calls his existence “oblivion, dark and silent and deep.”<\/p>\n

The support groups he goes to are working as a sedative to his dull life. He begins to notice Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) at meetings. She’s a faker like him. She just goes to these meeting to feel better about her life. She starts to spoil it for him. Norton knows he’s a faker, but wants to believe everyone else’s pain is real. However, while returning from a business trip, he meets a more intriguing character, the subversive Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). They become fast friends, bonding over a mutual disgust for corporate consumer-culture hypocrisy. Eventually, the two start this underground fighting Club, which convenes in a bar basement where angry men get to vent their frustrations in a brutal, bare-knuckle bouts. \u201cFight Club\u201d soon becomes the men’s only real priority.<\/p>\n

When the club starts a cross-country expansion, things start getting really crazy. Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is aggressive and mischievous as it skewers the superficiality of American pop culture. This film has a razor-sharp script and outstanding performances by both Norton and Pitt. I think this film has become an uncompromising American classic. Chuck Palahniuk has been quoted saying “we’ve become a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that.”<\/p>\n

David Fincher has to be one of my favorite directors. His unique camera techniques are truly one of a kind. He seems to push the envelope in each of his films. The movie is visceral and hard-edged, with levels of irony and commentary above and below the action. This film is not to be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Nicole Bacher. Viewed at the 2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival. Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) is a pitch-black comedy that challenges your prejudices and leaves you wanting more. This film explores the world of sexual confusion, violence and brutality. This film also portrays the ultra-civilized realm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}