Finally watched this netizen recommendation, Douban score 9.0 points of the classic movie "Fight Club", really cool enough! A veritable "dick" film!
Starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, the two of them are almost fighting, fighting each other, fighting with others, fighting with passers-by they don't know, hitting until they leave everything behind, hitting the world upside down, hitting lawlessness.
Each shot is under the control of David Finch's divine hand, which looks very smooth and bright, and the light and dark of the picture are distributed, with fast-paced background music, so that the audience's nerves remain in a state of excitement.
Jack (Edward Norton) in the film is an employee of a car company, like a typical symbol of the daily office worker, obedient and obedient at work, living in a high-rise apartment, at home most like to read the mail order catalog to buy furniture, the whole nest is arranged like a model house full of texture.
With such a perfect life, why does he have severe insomnia? Why does he attend a different mutual comfort group for terminally ill patients every day? Or even groups of patients with prostate cancer, testicular cancer, or terminal cancer? "The words spoken by people before death are more weighty, because people usually listen attentively." Jack's words seem to mean that the dialogue content of "one password and one action" that he goes to work every day is inexplicably empty.
He listened to the men who had their testicles removed cry about their journey, and those words had nothing to do with him, but they were things that really came from the heart and could not be heard in his model life. He hugs each other comfortingly with his big tits, Bob, who is a complete stranger, but Jack feels a sense of belonging.
Jack's life is the product of an indifferent social ecology, and what he thinks he pursues, a stable life and residence, a beautiful sports car and a living room, and bank deposits, these so-called necessary conditions for an ideal life, invisibly seem to narrow and enslave "human nature".
It's as if as soon as you step into society, you have to start chasing these things, as if you don't have any of the above at an old age, as if life is a failure.
So when I hear That Quote from Taylor (Brad Pitt), I can't help but clap my hands.
"Work can't represent you, bank balances can't represent you, the car you drive can't represent you, the things in your wallet can't represent you, and clothes can't represent you." 」
It is this kind of questioning thought that makes me often think that it seems like a very enjoyable thing to completely abandon everything, but often just think about it and do not have the courage to do it.
Watching Jack enter that kind of life, it seems that a part of himself is also attached to him, through which he can experience the absurd life that he wants to do and dare not do.
Subverting life is pleasurable, and the pursuit of radical change is as if the whole person has been transformed and reborn, like a soldier who has thrown off his armor and becomes a new, completely autonomous, independent other individual.
So bank deposits, desks, sports cars and apartments, the chips in the capitalist game, are all destroyed in the film, the financial building is destroyed by the bomb, and the basis for determining life is all zero at that moment.
After liposuction, the unwanted fat is the raw material of the top soap, and the human garbage eliminated by the fat people becomes the high-end products in the department store counter, which is a ridiculous cycle. It turns out that while pursuing beauty and fashion, you can also do such waste utilization?
The reason why this film is successful is not only to fight to the end, but also to reflect on every phenomenon, not only to fight back against modern capital society, and even to finally destroy and destroy the collective, but also to provide a certain degree of thinking.
From the initial self-venting to the later larger-scale sabotage operations, and even the death of some people, is this the original intention of Fight Club? Even decided to bury the body hastily in the backyard to bury the evidence?
Taylor said to Jack at first, "Don't want to control everything, let them go!" This was an attitude of abandoning and sacrificing the existing life, but then it became more and more extreme, expanding into further group destruction, and the fight club founded by two people, which finally became like cultivating an underground army " under one order, the whole country responded".
In such a huge organization, the individuality of each person has actually disappeared, becoming like the "V-Word Vendetta" emphasized, and the masses have all become a nameless "idea" without a name.
Later, Jack heroically blew Up Taylor, and I think he was confused by such a destruction plan, just as confused as he was in his original job, and wondered whether this was right or wrong.
There really isn't much conclusion in life, I suppose.
And human nature is such a thing, going to the extreme makes people extreme and lost, but adhering to the middle way and feeling as if you have not really lived, it is really very nerve-wracking!
Let's talk about the two protagonists.
Edward Norton's acting skills in interpreting split personalities in "First Fear" are so impressive that when watching Fight Club, I felt that there was probably no one better suited for this role than him.
He did not disappoint, in addition to the wonderful part of beating himself in the boss's office, after the plot of the movie unfolded, you can clearly feel the change in his eyes, and after the story took a sharp turn at the end, his eyes changed again.
I think "eye" can be regarded as the soul of acting, like Liang Chaowei, like The late Andy Lau and Aaron Kwok, when they come out, even a look is a play, people say that the eyes can talk probably like this.
As for Brad Pitt, I think it's the most suitable character I've ever seen.
The affectionate Grim Reaper in "The Sixth Sense of Life and Death" feels too mild, Achilles in "Troy" can't make him look handsome, and he feels too bland and lifeless in "The Wonders of Benjamin Button", but he really comes back to life in "Fight Club".
Taylor's intelligence, bravery, dick-likeness and leadership temperament are almost tailor-made for him, and all the elements feel like they are readily available.
Watching these two people act is really enjoyable.
Finally, there are many sentences in the film that scratch my itch, which sound really cool, like:
"Don't have everything yourself, don't be the perfect person"
"I haven't had a fight, how can I understand myself?"
"Our great war is a battle of hearts, our great panic is our life"
"The breakfast the day after death will be sweeter than any meal I've ever eaten in my life" and so on.
The film "Fight Club" can be seen as a violent, fighting film, or it can be seen as a subversion of values under the capital system, and it provides a spiritual belonging and outlet more symbolically, for those of us who swim in daily life without knowing it, or knowing it but unable to change it.
After reading it, I want to fight, but I don't dare, alas, what to do?