Fight
Club
DOWN &
DIRTY:
Drama: A disillusioned man joins
his new anarchist friend in
starting an underground fight
club that quickly grows in
popularity and scope.
NITTY GRITTY:
"Jack," the film's
narrator (EDWARD NORTON), is an
investigator for a major
automobile manufacturer. Bored
with his life and suffering from
insomnia, he begins attending
various support group meetings to
encounter people who really have
problems.
At a group for testicular cancer
survivors, he meets Bob (MEAT
LOAF), and soon finds himself
addicted to the meetings for the
release they give him.
This relief is ruined when he
notices Marla (HELENA BONHAM
CARTER), a chain-smoking
"tourist," is also
attending all of his support
groups without appropriate need
and is distracting his attention.
They finally agree to split their
time at different meetings and
each then goes their separate
ways.
Jack continues his car crash
investigations by flying across
the country, during which he
meets Tyler (BRAD PITT), a soap
salesman with an interesting
philosophy about life.
Jack doesn't think much of Tyler
until he returns home to find his
condo has blown up. Believing it
to be an accident and without any
real friends, he calls up Tyler
and the two get together for
several rounds of beers.
Afterwards, in the parking lot,
Tyler challenges Jack to hit him
and after reluctantly doing so,
the two get into a fight that
changes Jack's life.
Jack moves in with Tyler in a
large, dilapidated home and their
now weekly fist fights begin
drawing crowds of onlookers and
participants. They form a fight
club where the rules are that
only two men can fight at a given
time and no one can mention the
club outside their circle.
THE ENDING:
After discovering that Tyler has
set up flight clubs all across
the country, Jack begins to
wonder if Tyler has gone too far.
He finds out that Tyler and his
group of fighters have set
explosives to go off in all the
credit card companies.
Then when people start referring
to him as Tyler, Jack comes to
the realization that Tyler was
just in his imagination and that
Tyler represented everything that
Jack wasn't.
To get rid of Tyler for good,
Jack shoots himself in the head.
This 'kills' Tyler and Jack and
Marla watch as the buildings and
our credit society disintegrate.
WHAT EVERYONE WILL BE
TALKING ABOUT:
The wacky scene where Jack
(Edward Norton) beats himself up
in his office and
his boss is blamed. It's
hilarious! |
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