What is fight
club about?
“An insomniac office worker, looking for a way
to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soapmaker, forming an
underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more.”
Fight club
is an American film based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk (1966) and the film
was made in 1999. The director of this film was David Fincher, produced by Art
Linson, cinematography by Jeff Cronenweth and music by Dust brothers. The production
company of this film was Fox 2000 and distributed by 20th century
fox. The budget of the film was $63 million and made a box office of $100.9
million. This film starred Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.
Norton
plays the narrator of this film that stops his white collar job, and forms a ‘fight
club’ with soap maker Tyler Durden and other men joined this club that wanted
to fight recreationally. The whole of film was based on Norton growing a closer
relationship between Tyler and Marla, not only to know that Tyler was fictional
character throughout the film. The whole film from judgement has the genre of
psychological thriller, while Keith Gandal defines it as a "slumming
trauma". The white masculinity in the film differs from noir films by
focusing on the upper middle class instead of the lower middle class or the
working class.