“Fight Club" is a famous movie created by Hollywood's famous director David Fincher in 1999. Countless fans who have watched the film are fascinated by their compact and smooth plot and thrilling lens. The success of the film, on the one hand, thanks to the director’s unconventional ideas, and on the other hand, the wonderful interpretations of Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name, mainly about a white-collar worker of a big car company suffering from severe insomnia. It is full of crisis and hatred for everything around. By chance, he met Tyler, a businessman who sold soap, a scorpion hero who was full of rebellious, cruel and violent, and lived in Tyler's dilapidated home because of his apartment fire. The two became friends with each other and created the "FIght Club", which is an underground organization that allows people to fight without their protective gear and whose purpose is to vent their emotions.

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The club has attracted more and more people and gradually developed into a national underground organization, and Tyler has attracted blind believers with his own personal charm. The members of the club are always fighting and fighting, and Tyler’s behavior is getting more and more crazy. The white-collar workers are becoming more and more intolerant of the current situation of the "fighting club" and Tyler's behavior. Tyler left him. However, he found that he could not get rid of Tyler's shadow when he went. He began to think: "Who am I?"

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This is not a narrative story of the traditional Hollywood model. It can be found that the whole film is told by Norton's voice. It starts with it, which enhances the clear personal style of the character. On the other hand, the character of Norton and Pitt's interpretation is more vividly contrasted. The narrative space from this perspective has gradually evolved into an anti-effect in front of us. The director let us see in the "Fight Club" is the hopeless scene caused by the insomnia and slack of the protagonist. The lens ubiquitously shows the life of the protagonist falling apart, paving the way for the breakthrough of the whole plot and the outbreak of tension.

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The film uses flashback as a whole. The director uses the clues and evidence of the protagonist memory and stream of consciousness as the plot driving force. However, the flow and expansion of consciousness is not so easy to understand logically. This led to the splitting of the plot of the film and the invisible addition of the viewer's understanding threshold. However, David Fincher makes full use of the film's protagonist, which is a feature of schizophrenia. The film plot gradually reveals two different characters in the character's body, and it is well presented for further exploration of the self in front of the audience.

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At the same time, "Fight Club" can be seen as a film that draws on the violent aesthetic style. But this kind of violent aesthetics is a special kind of innovation. It is fundamentally different from the visual violence aesthetics represented in the traditional Western sense. Their basic characteristics are the transformation of violent scenes such as battles and gun battles into visual stimuli through film and television technology. Promote human instinct for violence to attract the attention of the audience. However, David Fincher rarely deals with violence similarly. The violent aesthetics in “Fight Club” is a cognitive process in which people vent and fight against their bodies to achieve self-crushing and reshaping. Overall, David Fincher's film is an anti-Hollywood commercial film model that attempts to tell about something that is decadent and crazy, with both hope and beauty. There is no doubt that the director David Fincher shows his unique personal style in the film. The lens language is changeable, and the characters and situations are unrestrained. The director re-explored with his atypical creations and strange ideas. It can be said that David Fincher is a good balance between business and art, making the film a classic with both stimulating elements and a soft core.

Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/550-fight-club?language=en-US
Critic: AAA