Don’t talk about Fight Club.
But Kim Morgan talks about it after the fact – ten years after the fact. Wow, a decade has blown by us. You need to read this piece if you are a fan of this film!
Fight Club, I agree, is a seminal piece of work. It is dark, depressing and uncommercial in its blatant commercialism. It is one of the greatest films of the last twenty-five years.
Kim nails it. I don’t know who Kim is but she is one smart and insightful writer. Check this one out. Kim – come and work with us at indieWire. Check out indieWire here.
I find it striking that one of the underlying concepts of Fight Club was that what I consider to be my generation (I’m born in 1973) had no defining moment.
Tyler Durden movie quote: We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pi***d off.
Well. That all changed a little less than two years after the film came out with 911. Having been through these past years, I would have rather my generation did remain the middle children of history.
“Fight Club” is my favorite movie of all time. “Life is Beautiful” being a close second. Two very differnt films but I love the idea behind Fight Club. The true meaning of the movie is pretty deep. I heard the blue ray version that just released offers a big surprise during the movie. Not sure what it is yet.
I could be wrong…but I’m pretty sure that talking about the First Rule of Fight Club constitutes non-compliance with said First Rule. Just sayin.