The film "Fight Club", directed by David Fincher based on the novel by C. Palahniuk, became a cult. 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 enough to spend his time reading the work, in the plot of which he is going to make 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, 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 confusing story of a nameless clerk, in which madness, narcissism, breaking stereotypes and the call to live freely are mixed.
The main character, who works in an ordinary American office and spends his life in the simplest and tedious occupations in the style of "buy cool furniture, save for a car, " has long gone crazy with this same banality of life. He attends anonymous gatherings of alcoholics, patients with testicular cancer, patients with tuberculosis, and all for the sake of one - to find harmony in himself.
Gradually losing his mind, he discovers that a new facet of his own personality is opening in him, which he had not previously suspected. Thus, the hero has a split personality - Tyler Durden, his new alter ego, is the exact opposite of the crammed and secretive clerk - Tyler is strong, sexy, brave and spits on all the conventions of life. This new alter ego begins to gradually gain the hero’s consciousness, 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 point of the film
How to stop being a simple consumer and parasite, and become a full-fledged, free and thinking person - this is what the film tells about, albeit in very non-standard ways and methods.
The key idea of this picture is the theory that all the inhabitants of the globe are not obliged to blindly follow the imposed stereotypes and examples of a “happy” life - the film clearly traces the anti-consumer subtext, which suggests that society is nothing more than simple and a stupid consumer, unable to translate into his and public life something truly grandiose and unique.
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