Fight Club (1999): What is it about?

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 20^th 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.