The film "Fight Club", directed by David Fincher based on the novel by Charles Palahniuk, has become a cult film. The picture is permeated with the idea of rebellion, self-destruction, the struggle against the consumer society.
Quite often, films based on the plot of any novels do not represent any interesting projects - if only because they almost always differ from the original. It is not surprising, because the creators have their own vision of the picture, and not every director is so noble as to spend his time reading the work, according to the plot of which he is going to shoot a movie. But in the case of "Fight Club" everything turned out exactly the opposite - the film adaptation of the novel came out more than fantastic and interesting. Even Chuck Palahniuk himself, the author of the novel, praised the scriptwriter and director, saying that the end of the film turned out to be even better than in his book.
About the plot
The film, like the novel, is a rather convoluted story of one nameless clerk, in which madness, narcissism, breaking stereotypes and a call to live free are mixed.
The protagonist, who works in an ordinary American office and spends his life doing the most simple and boring activities in the style of “buy cool furniture, save up for a car,” has long gone crazy from this very banality of life. He attends anonymous meetings of alcoholics, testicular cancer patients, tuberculosis patients, and all for one thing - to find harmony in himself.
Gradually losing his mind, he discovers that a new facet of his own personality opens up in him, which he did not suspect before. Thus, the hero has a split personality - Tyler Durden, his new alter ego, is the exact opposite of a downtrodden and secretive clerk - Tyler is strong, sexy, brave and spits on all the conventions of life. This new alter ego begins to gradually conquer the consciousness of the hero, dominating him - which results in a large-scale conspiracy of the protagonist, seeking to completely change all of humanity. And it's all about Tyler's philosophy - self-destruction …
The main meaning of the film
How to stop being a simple consumer and a parasite, and become a full-fledged, free and thinking person - this is what the film tells about, albeit in very non-standard ways and techniques.
The key idea of this picture is the theory that all the inhabitants of the globe are not at all obliged to blindly follow the imposed stereotypes and models of a “happy” life - the film clearly shows anti-consumer subtext, which suggests that society is nothing more than simple and a stupid consumer who is not able to translate something truly grandiose and unique into his own and public life.
