The thing about the movie version of fight club is that everybody loves it. It gets to the point where it sort of loses any kind of positive message it has, when everyone and their mom are thinking about starting a fight club of their own, to get rid of all the frustrations in their life. Which is all well and good, when so much of America gets into analyzing film for it's moral values.Except for the fact that, you know, THAT'S NOT THE MORAL. There are so many ways of analyzing this movie BESIDES the ONE surface element that EVERYONE is going to get. So instead of a million enlightened people striving for a better world, we get a million people getting together to punch each other in the collective face.
And I'm not trying to say that fight club isn't a good movie. As a matter of fact, I'd go so far as to say that it's a great movie. The production values are fantastic, the acting is amazing, and if I hadn't read the book I would have been blown away by the twist. The problem with it is that it perverts the message of the book, and THEN brings it to a huge audience. The good stuff is all there, it's just much harder to find. I think the real problem is the fact that the movie-going population of America doesn't understand what a "Satire" is.
So maybe Fight Club should have stayed a book. It would have kept it in the hands of people who read for pleasure instead of assignment, and it probably would have been understood much better. But then again, Edward Norton.
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