{"id":3543,"date":"2009-02-09T23:28:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T07:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2009-02-10T23:00:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T07:00:15","slug":"fight-club-david-fincher-1999-usa-germany-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3543","title":{"rendered":"Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999): USA, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Jason Sanders<\/a>. \u00a0Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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Fincher brings a film to the screen that is stunningly amazing. \u00a0The story is compelling and it is a film that leaves you thinking non stop. \u00a0Fight Club<\/em><\/a>, based on the book of the same name, introduces the sleeping disorder insomnia and the effects it has on people and their lives. \u00a0Of course the film is not as simple as that. \u00a0Fincher delivers a movie that takes insomnia to a whole new level.<\/p>\n

The movie introduces the narrator, played by Edward Norton, who is an insomniac who has a desk job and the typical single man apartment. \u00a0Over time, he cannot handle his life, and feels the need to seek some sort of stress relief. \u00a0He does this by going to support groups that he has no reason to be in to let out his emotions. \u00a0It is in one of the support groups he meets Marla, who essentially has the same type of problem. \u00a0Marla being at the groups ruin it for him and he then meets Tyler Durden. \u00a0Tyler shows him another way to seek relief by fighting. \u00a0People see them fight, and more and more become interested and becomes an underground fight club. \u00a0Over time the fight club turns into something compared to a terrorist group mixed with a cult. \u00a0It is then that Edward Norton’s character realizes that he needs to stop Tyler and his newly formed Fight Club.<\/p>\n

Edward Norton and Brad Pitt complement each other in this movie by basically contradicting each other. \u00a0After the big twist of the film, I started to realize the subtle hints of the twist early on in the film. \u00a0Fincher delivers such an outstanding film about the human psyche and human characteristics. \u00a0This movie is by far one of the best written films I have seen, and is a movie that does exactly what a movie should do, make you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Jason Sanders. \u00a0Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Fincher brings a film to the screen that is stunningly amazing. \u00a0The story is compelling and it is a film that leaves you thinking non stop. \u00a0Fight Club, based on the book of the same name, introduces the sleeping disorder insomnia and the effects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3543","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\/3543","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}