Bewilderment is a word to sum up my general attitude when I first witnessed fight club. The overwhelming nature of the storyline intrigued me hugely and the wonderful acting skills of Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter were exhibited to perfection in this outrageously good production.
The story is mainly based around the narrator, who is struggling to cope with the effects from insomnia and see's no rewarding nature at his workplace. He is essentially coping with some form of depression. The narrator, played by Edward Norton discovers he see's little satisfaction in life apart from attending support sessions, designed to help those suffering a certain type of disease or mental state. He soon becomes hooked on these sessions, like a junky relishing their fix.
This difficult lifestyle accelerates into a further saddening state when the narrator meets Maria Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter. The Narrator grows increasingly frustrated with her presence throughout, and this produces several humorous sequences.
Brad Pitts character, Tyler Durden becomes friends with the narrator after a meeting on a plane, and due to a fairly odd and unexpected fight scene between the couple, fight club subsequently emerged. Fight club becomes an underground sensation, an underground sensation in which our narrator has never felt more alive in years sue to the sheer satisfaction found from fighting.
The 1999 release was directed by David Fincher. And has recieved mostly positive reviews, for example with Total film giving the production a merit of 5/5, and Rotten Tomatoes deeming it a 7.4/10.
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