Anyway why I decided to write this post is because last night I felt many things while watching the film that I never did before.Its freakish similarity to the current circumstances (read post 9/11) in the world & specifically to September 11 that obviously changed the world forever.Freakish, because Fight Club released in 1999, two years before 9/11 happened but when you watch the film you cant help but think about the twin tower collapse, and what followed it or rather what preceded it. I dont know what to make out of it but its actually surreal.
Navigating the net I found this interesting video on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82iHNVg8yUc
Though at few times I feel the video tries to read too much into it & is funny, but at times it raises interesting questions.Or watch the movie to figure it out yourself.
Anyhow Fight Club is a film which cannot be tied down to one or two things or events.It deals with the psychological grind of a person living in these troubled & complex times.It doesn’t say who is wrong or who is right, or what is black & what is white. It just shows what the world around us can do to us.It deals with how individualism could destroy & similarly, how collectivism can destroy us, too and acc. to me thats what makes this film a masterpiece.David Fincher was born to adapt & make this Chuck Palahniuk novel.
Watch the video & also, here is an interesting write up on the movie & its similiraties with 9/11 - http://www.reverseshot.com/legacy/autumn04/fightclub.html
