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Today I'll show you an action-thriller film: "Fight Club"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
Fight Club is a peculiar story that tackles consumerism and the society we live in
In order to catch the interest of the audiences,
they have shown it in a way that illustrates these relevant issues by a violent party,
in which the heroes give themselves permission to drink, smoke, screw, and beat each other up
It is a usual action-thriller film, but the message goes beyond its genre,
leaving the audiences shocked as they find about the massive plot twist
It tackles consumerism with style, fight scenes, explosions, and brotherhood
Rest assured that the audience will find this movie action-packed, eye-opening, and teeth-grinding
It is the kind of film where the climax never ends,
because it just gets exciting as scenes go by left and right
Nevertheless, this film is a sight to watch;
big blockbusters actors such as Edward Norton, Brad Pitt,
and Helena Bonham Carter, a veteran director like David Fincher,
come together to create a masterpiece in the late 1990s
Adapted from a famous novel by Chuck Palaniuk,
this film is one of the most remembered revolutionary action films in the history of cinema
Fight Club starts with an anonymous narrator held captive
with a gun pointed in his face inside a building full of explosives
that are ready to detonate at any time
This movie has been action-packed ever since the beginning
Starting from this challenging situation,
the narrator tells the story of why he ended up in that situation in the first place
The story starts in a very anti-climatic way
Our main character is all faced up against the big breasts of a man
He is in a support group named "Remaining Men Together,"
dedicated to those who have testicular cancer
In the support group, people are seen comforting each other, crying, and sharing the same struggle
The name of the man with big breasts is Bob
At this point, the story is still foggy,
which is why the nameless narrator decides to go even further back in time to six months earlier,
in which he tells that he is suffering from a condition called insomnia
The main character is seen having a hard time falling asleep
He has been drinking caffeine and alcohol as coping mechanisms
He is depressed and just trying very hard to survive the struggle of everyday life as an employee
While working at his job, the narrator's boss calls him to go on a business trip
Preparing for it, he goes to the condominium to rest for the day
If we are to describe the interior design of his condominium,
it is evident to the eye that the narrator has a thing for furniture
Every single corner of the room has furniture that is probably bought in IKEA
Each is carefully planned on where they would be placed
Still struggling to fall asleep, he goes to a hospital to check his condition
The doctor reassures him that he cannot die of insomnia
Our main character asks the doctor if there are medications,
that would help him sleep easier at night
The doctor says that medicine is not advisable
as he needs to sleep naturally to have better outcomes
The narrator begs the doctor to give him medications, saying that he is in so much pain
The doctor shuts him up and says, "You want to see pain? Swing by First Methodist Tuesday nights
See the guys with testicular cancer
That is pain"
This is the beginning of the narrator's obsession with support groups
Upon hearing what the doctor said, he decides to visit the support group
Now we are back with Bob
After sharing struggles, Bob goes to our main character to hug him,
confiding in all the hardships, he faced in his journey of cancer
As our narrator is all snuggled up on Bob's chest,
he realizes that he really needs that hug and cries the entire time
The main character realizes that going to support groups is helping him sleep
That night after the meeting, he successfully sleeps after days of deprivation
Not long after, it becomes his coping mechanism
He always goes to different support groups to make him feel better,
The alcoholics, Incest Survivors Group, Tuberculosis, Gastric Cancer, and many more
In one of the groups, there is meditation
The narrator imagines his spirit animal inside a cave, a penguin
"Slide" is what the penguin says to him and slides away
These groups are starting to rejuvenate him, and he has continued to do it for a year already
Everything is going fine with his life until the main character sees a woman in sunglasses,
and goes to the testicular cancer support group
She is Marla Singer
The narrator really hates her as she also starts going to the support groups
He calls her a "big tourist
" He does not like the fact that there is another person that is exactly doing what he does
Because of Marla, his difficulties of falling asleep come back
He wants to call out Marla in front of the groups to expose her
In one of the groups, the main character pulls Marla, and threatens to expose her for being a faker
Marla says that she will also do the same if he ever tries to do it, as a rebut
As they go out of the building, they try to create a compromise,
dividing the support groups of the week
Marla takes lymphoma, blood,
and brain parasite support groups while he takes tuberculosis and testicular cancer
They exchange numbers to make sure that they will not meet again in any support groups
To pursue the business trip, he goes to a plane for his flight
The main character finds his seatmate inside the plane interesting
They talk a lot, and the main character asks him what he does for a living
The man pulls out his briefcase, interestingly,
the same briefcase with the main character; and he tells him that he makes soap
The suitcase is full of soaps inside
The person gives his business card to him with his name on it: Tyler Durden
Tyler reveals that the same ingredients in making soap can also make explosives
He says that there are so many things we could create only by using our home materials
As the main character gets off the plane, he rushes to his condominium,
only to find out that there is no condominium to get back to
His room is completely blown up
All his valued furniture is seen burning on the sidewalks
Looking for someone to talk to, he finds Tyler's business card and decides to call him
They talk on the phone, and he tells him what happened
They meet in a bar to chat for more
Knowing about the main character's obsession with furniture,
Tyler rails against consumerism and says that material things only own us
The main character politely asks Tyler to stay at his place outside the bar, and he agrees
But before going to his house, Tyler asks him one favor and says,
"I want you to hit me as hard as you can
At first, the main character is hesitant about hitting Tyler, but he does it instead
He hits him in the ear as hard as he can, and Tyler punches him back
They find that beating each other could be fun
After a few minutes, some men notice their fighting, and they become interested
It is the start of the fight club
After hitting each other multiple times,
Tyler welcomes the main character to his house on Paper Street,
which is barely standing due to abandonment and old age
Our nameless narrator will be staying in a dirty room and worn-out mattress,
trying to live in a place where there is no reliable source of water and electricity
Despite the condition of the house, the main character adapts well to the environment
Ever since the main character and Tyler fought in the bar's parking lot,
the group of men fighting starts to grow
It is slowly becoming an organization
Men that want to fight and use it as a coping mechanism,
have regularly gone to the parking lot to fight someone
Our main character, as one of the people that started the Club, really enjoys it
He realizes that he has not been going to support groups anymore,
because he finds something much more unique and exciting
Because of the growth of its members,
the fight club needs a more secure and more prominent place for them to meet and fight
A person leads Tyler and the main character to Lou's tavern
He says that its basement is free for them to use
This is officially the birth of the "Fight Club;"
it has become an underground organization, and Tyler is the leader
Tyler gathers all the members; and tells them the rules of the Club
He says, "The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about the fight club
The second rule of fight club is you do not talk about the fight club
He repeated
As the members of the Club listen to Tyler, he proceeds to say the other rules
"The third rule of the fight club is: someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out; the fight is over
" "Fourth rule: only two guys fight
"Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas
"Sixth rule: no shirts, no shoes
"Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to
"And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first night at a fight club, you have to fight
One day, Marla phones the Paper Street house to contact our main character
Marla knows that he is not going into the support groups anymore, and that made her curious
The main character asks Marla why she knows that he is not going to the groups,
if they already made a compromise
Marla says that she knows it because she has been cheating
Marla also says that she drank a bottle of Xanax as a cry-for-help thing
The main character, having no care about Marla, leaves the phone and goes away
Tyler then finds the phone hanging, so he goes to pick it up and talks to her
Not long after, they are caught by the main character having sexual intercourse inside Tyler's room
Over the next few days, Tyler and Marla have gotten closer;
and they are playing a violent hormone game that echoes through the Paper Street house
The main character is irritated and wishes that Marla should die
One day, Tyler makes a test to fight club members if they want to stay in the Paper Street house
The aspiring members should complete the task for them to be accepted into the house
The ritual is that they need to stay outside the house for three days without food and water
The first one to be recruited in the place is Ricky, followed by Bob
Tyler makes sure the new members wear black, and shave their heads and follow all the rules
The new group is becoming larger than ever
Tyler now has his army
The main character feels that he is being left behind; and one of the members,
Angel Face, is starting to be closer to Tyler
Tyler has not been telling him about the Project Mayhem all along
In the next fight at the fight club,
the main character beats the hell out of Angel Face, almost killing him
He says that he did it because he wanted to "destroy something beautiful
" The people at the fight club then bring him to the nearest hospital
The very next morning, the main character wakes up,
and notices that Tyler is now nowhere to be found in the Paper Street house
Interestingly, Project Mayhem continues working without him
One night, while doing one of the tasks of the Project Mayhem,
Bob was shot in the head, leaving him dead
The main character says that Bob has a real name, and it is Robert Paulson
The members then start to chant his name, chanting "His name is Robert Paulson,"
all over again as it echoes around the whole house
The main character goes to Tyler's room, and finds out that he has many plane tickets
He wants to find where Tyler is; and hold him accountable for all happening in Project Mayhem
The narrator goes to all the cities indicated in the plane tickets to see Tyler
He realizes that Project Mayhem has already spread in different cities
Strangely, one man notices him, and says that he is "Mr Durden
" It makes him confused because all the people he is meeting,
are calling him by the name of "Tyler Durden"
The main character now has an identity crisis
In his hotel, he calls Marla,
and asks her if she has been having sexual intercourse with him and Marla says yes
He is now starting to think that he and Tyler are the same person
Suddenly after the phone call, Tyler appears behind him,
and he confirms that they are the same person all along
Tyler is his alter-ego
Out of panic, he goes to the Paper Street house, and finds that it is empty
All that is left are the explosives that the members built
They are planning to blow up a bunch of buildings in one of their projects
He meets Marla to warn her about everything that is bound to happen;
he tells her that she must stay away from big cities as much as possible
To rectify everything, the main character (now Tyler) turns himself in at the police station;
and says that they must arrest him because he is a leader of a terrorist organization
It does not work out, because the police are also part of the project mayhem
They want to injure Tyler by cutting his testicles
Luckily, Tyler takes one of the guns and successfully escapes
To stop the bombings, Tyler goes to buildings that are set to blow up to dismantle the bombs
Unfortunately, his alter-ego appears and beats him so hard
Tyler shoots his alter-ego, but the bullet goes right through him, because he does not exist
He knocks himself out
Tyler wakes up at the top floor of the building, tied to a chair, similar to the first scene shown
Sixty seconds until the explosions, he planned to stop it, but he could not
He realizes that his alter-ego does not exist,
so the only way to stop him is to shoot himself in the face; and he did
Tyler is fine, aside from the wounds on his cheeks
But his alter-ego dies
The elevator dings; and some of the members of Project Mayhem and Marla reach the top floor
The members are really worried about the injury of Tyler, but he assures them that he is okay
Tyler holds Marla's hands and says, "You met me at a very strange time in my life
As the final music begins to play, all the buildings around them start to explode
Tyler and Marla watch it together while holding hands
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