Friday, March 6, 2009

CRAZY! CRAZY! CRAZY!!



MOVIE: Fight Club(1999)
CAST: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt
DIRECTOR: David Fincher




Remember the opening scene of Bollywood's Ghajini? The rushing through the cells, nerves and tissues inside the brain alongside the opening credits won the technicians some acolades. Those who have seen Fight Club know that its lifted from here. The movie is based on Chuck Pahlaniuk's novel with the same name. The script of the movie though was finalised after lots and lots of drafting. The debate was over the style of narration to be adopted in the script. What they finally pulled out remains to be one of the most outrageous and brilliant styles cinema has ever seen.

Jack enjoys a white collar job and due to the stress in life suffers from insomnia. He fights insomnia in a very unusual way by visiting patient rehabs posing to be one of them. In a sequence of events he meets a girl called Marla Singer and a guy called Tayler Durden(Pitt). His association with Durden has to be one of the best crafted aspects of the movie. He and Durden set up a basement midnight organisation called the "fight club" where people just hit each other, they just fight, for no reason, but just fight. The visual effects, the cinematography, the narration pattern, screenplay, the awesome energy in Dust Brothers' music makes this a crazy crazy crazy experience. One starts feeling mad and helpless watching it, thats exactly what the director has intended, they have put you in the characters shoes!

A person when encaptured by his schedule, by his work, by his commitments, by everything what he does starts adjusting to his shackles and slowly and slowly his desire to set free fizzes out. One becomes slave to furnished houses and spic and span clothing but even though he wants to run naked on the street at midnight he cannot as he is not completely free. In this process slowly and slowly our brain creates another personality within itself. A personality which one is not, but what he desires to be. A person with shackles creates the most free and " i dont care" type person parallel to himself. This parallel personality often resurrects a person and more often, destroys him. This is the message of Fight Club, find out how and why....

3 comments:

cjs said...
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cjs said...

mate this flick is a definite four on five..

soaham said...

hmmm i was not really satisfied with the end....i understand what the filmmkaer has tried to show, but i guess the end in the novel was much better...