Mike Goes To Movies

Fight Club (1999) Twenty years later and, man, does Fight Club still pack a punch. The film has often been rejected by the 'cinema' lovers out there; it has been and still is sometimes labelled as 'macho-porn' - being a testosterone fuelled ride of violence, sex and anarchy - and, perhaps, all of that is true. But beneath all of that - that chaos and destruction - there is an order. That order is a prescient message being told by original author, Chuck Palahniuk, director, David Fincher, and screenwriter, Jim Uhls. The message deals with a perpetual character of human nature: discontentment. Discontentment with society. Discontentment with one's own life, and the limited control that one has over it. Discontentment with one's place within the world. And then the motivation to push back. Against everything. There is a lot more going on above and below the surface of the film's plot - foremost, involving the titular fight club, and, of course, th