Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by David Fincher
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Actor: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach GrenierDirector: David Fincher
Brand: PITT,BRAD
Producer: Arnon Milchan
Producer: Art Linson
Producer: Ceán Chaffin
Producer: John S. Dorsey
Producer: Ross Grayson Bell
Writer: Chuck Palahniuk
Writer: Jim Uhls
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, THX
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 139 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-06-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product features:
- Bonus Features
- Outtakes and Deleted Scenes
- Commentary trackes featuring Pitt, Fincher, Norton and Carter
DVD Reviews of Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: YOU ARE NOT THE MOVIES YOU BUY!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Have you felt that work 9 to 5 only because you have to pay the bills, and even maybe learned to enjoy it, but unable to feel purpose and meaning?. Have you ponder after leaving late one day, that is not what you imagined you would had end up doing with your life?. Have you felt you have adopted rules in your job and life that maybe you don't truly understand or believe, or work for yourself on an emotional level?
Have you felt your company treats you like a number? Have you felt you've been educated by marketers and don't feel satisfied by what you buy, the relationships you get involved in and ultimately with yourself?. Have you felt your persona is a collage of labels and that you are much more?. And eventually, discovered no one cares to find out, that other side of you. Have you discovered even you feel more related to the labels, than that you beyond the labels?
Have you felt this frantic lifestyle of compulsive buying, work frenzy & competition is going to kill as all, or at least consume us? And finally, have you wandered if you can jump off this train, move to a beach and teach surfing?
This film attempts to connect us with those feelings, using as a link a far-off character in the midst of an existential crisis.
This character ("jack"), is suffering the outmost psychological scenario in which these issues could influence us. He looks for a very outlandish cure or escape. Ultimately finds it and later regrets, but finds his type of salvation. The extreme perspective helps to shed light into our own lives, and to realize that the search for a meaningful living in our society is not that far out.
This movie has several layers, as all complex tales do. Some will enjoy or criticize the outer layer and its violence. Others will understand that the violence is never used for its own sake (only on one occasion, to make the point that the movie is making no points, analogous to the point in a poem ).
Fight Club is a very particular way in which a very particular man with this very common problem. He suffers alienation from other humans and his own humanity, seeks and finds a temporary fix, and steps up to freedom. Let's clear out from the onset, and due to the critics out there, it is not educational material. It is not making a statement about how everyone that feels detached from our kind and unhappy on the cities should solve his/her problem. This said to address as well, the stupid arguments based in the notion that movies have a moral responsibility to educate adults on their choices.
It is just a fable of a man's ego and superego that interact, and live a life together until the man is able to become whole. And it is about his very personal solution to an existential issue many of us are troubled by.
Those two characters appear when we fail. One is the image of what we should be and against which we contrast and define failure. The other one are us all, with all our human flaws, under construction state and always evolving.
Furthermore, the character ultimately finds that love, rather than violence, is the fix he needs and wants.
He starts off this journey as a man with dysfunctional emotional states, among them a dreadful sleep disorder, and unable to have friends or relate sanely to the opposite sex.
As a relief, at the start, he tries to reach people at support groups. It works for a while.
Then he finds fight club. The fight club is born as a seemly casual game he plays with his super-ego. The night they "met", Tyler asks Jack to hit him. He hits back. Both felt very ecstatic. Some guys watch them, joined, and grows from there.
Violence is clearly agreed and enjoyed mutually in the movie without any animosity but on the contrary with appreciation, which is a very different portrait of violence in films. Furthermore is cathartic for the men involved.
If you want to guess a message about it, you could said it portraits how sad is that men (and could expand to both genders) have to hit each other to touch each other, in a culture of chauvinism, homophobia and sexual harassment lawsuits, where human contact has seriously dwindled to an unhealthy level.
Moreover, the city as a production machine has become so sterile, so ordered, so conditioning that chaotic behavior could become very relaxing and needed.
Acts that reunite as with more basic instincts create some balance. We men were hunters for thousands of years and now are segregated to cubicles, prohibited to even scream or look instinctively at a female.
Besides violence, his path towards liberation has the mix of many elements of Taoism and Zen devices. Furthermore, The mayhem activities resemble somewhat the poetic terrorism found in anarchist writer Hakim Bey's essays: Surprise people to enlighten them by shock..
Some bullets of scenes that shock and show:
When Tyler drags the clerk outside the mini market, and threatens to kill him unless he pursues his dream is a very over the top, but creative way of rekindle passion in a man's life, clearly beaten, broken and numb.
All of them methods are over the top. And you have to respect who considers them extreme. But they are definitely very entertaining, smart and liberating for those who want to see related methods that are "out of the box". And again, get what you pay on a movie for: To live things you may not live on reality. On these stretches to the extreme is when our vices become more exposed and thus visible, sometimes.
Hitting bottom is a way of losing the fear that holds that reduced self together. It is the fear of failure or harm. Sometimes the risk of the exercise is much, but the desire to be free is the strongest of all. Free to be the ever-evolving beings with infinite layers, some not bound to be confined by words, logical structures, thought and finally a foreign ideocracy/ethics. Some may call this other layer, the soul.
Among what holds together our personas are possesions. This caricatures are the introduction cards of ourselves and our avatars have possesions that give them value, according to the prevailing value system. Losing them is a way of facing and dissipating that fear.
The same with machismo and the image that we men need to hold, that we cannot lose a fight without feeling devalued. Setting ourselves to lose a fight is very effective, besides dangerous and eccentric, way of discarding that fear.
Conversely, is similar to the therapy used to treat phobias. The analyst gradually confronts the patient with the feared object. Until, desensitivity provides she/he can overcome the fear.
Staying in the moment, even on the most agonizing moments hardens your skin enough to stop dodging reality, the eternal now ever, with every device imaginable: food, tv and of course buying stuff you don't need.
Tyler puts Jack through these and other tests to awaken him.
But Tyler doesn't stops there, he wants to awaken society.
All weaved together by hip techno music, MTV video esthetics and steps towards enlightenment, is what the movie ''Fight Club''is about.
Other principles in the mix are that a fragmented being cannot truly love. The desire for Marla and his inability to let go of the past, is another pressure point on Jack pushing him towards freedom.
Tyler represents a double edge sword savior or guru. On one side, the desire to be frenetic and push himself to the edge to conquer limitations, and also all he desires to be as a man.
To accept truly himself, and use all his energy as a united being he has to let go of this figure. Keep what learn and dump the rest and find a wise middle where he is comfortable at.
The rant that Tyler delivers to the fight club, encapsulates some of the concerns the movie wants to bring the audience to brood upon. It is one of the few congruent lines thrown in your lap to understand the movie and the issues brought to light. Issues related to living lives without meaning, in mechanic jobs we hate, to buy stuff conditioned by the media to, but that we really don't truly need. We've become consumer droids. Space monkeys conditioned to press buttons towards oblivion. The media offers its carrot: fame, fortune, and every Ego-booster conceivable. And if the entanglement is rooted on the ego logic, ego perception and egotistic behavior it only messes up the problem further. All reinforces the need to gain awareness of the influence of the ego.
The movie doesn't wrap up nicely the answers to these questions, and throws them on your lap.
This movie left me with the strong impression of watching one of the most aggressive criticisms towards the dangers of excessive consumerism, of my generation.
It is difficult to believe it was made by the director of Seven and two of the most prominent actors of our generation who put their necks on the line to express these concerns.
Bravo!!
Description of Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
"'Fight Club' pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing" (Rolling Stone). Brad Pitt ("12 Monkeys", "Seven"), Edward Norton ("Primal Fear," "American History X") and Helena Bonham Carter ("Mighty Aphrodite," "A Room With A View") turn in powerful "performances of which movie legends are made" (Chicago Tribune) in this action-packed hit. A ticking-time-bomb insomniac (Norton) and a slippery soap salesman (Pitt) channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until a sensuous eccentric (Bonham Carter) gets in the way and ignites an out-of control spiral toward oblivion.All films take a certain suspension of disbelief. Fight Club takes perhaps more than others, but if you're willing to let yourself get caught up in the anarchy, this film, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is a modern-day morality play warning of the decay of society. Edward Norton is the unnamed protagonist, a man going through life on cruise control, feeling nothing. To fill his hours, he begins attending support groups and 12-step meetings. True, he isn't actually afflicted with the problems, but he finds solace in the groups. This is destroyed, however, when he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), also faking her way through groups. Spiraling back into insomnia, Norton finds his life is changed once again, by a chance encounter with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), whose forthright style and no-nonsense way of taking what he wants appeal to our narrator. Tyler and the protagonist find a new way to feel release: they fight. They fight each other, and then as others are attracted to their ways, they fight the men who come to join their newly formed Fight Club. Marla begins a destructive affair with Tyler, and things fly out of control, as Fight Club grows into a nationwide fascist group that escapes the protagonist's control.
Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (Seven), is not for the faint of heart; the violence is no holds barred. But the film is captivating and beautifully shot, with some thought-provoking ideas. Pitt and Norton are an unbeatable duo, and the film has some surprisingly humorous moments. The film leaves you with a sense of profound discomfort and a desire to see it again, if for no other reason than to just to take it all in. --Jenny Brown
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