English Review: Fight Club ‘This is you’re life and it’s ending one minute at a time.’

English Review: Fight Club

‘This is you’re life and it’s ending one minute at a time.’

The psychological thriller Fight Club directed by David Fincher and starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt delivers a blunt and powerful message about the human psyche. The director conveys this message using a variety of cinemographic features, which combine to give the audience a knockout film.

The movie opens with scenes of the inside of Jack’s/ the narrator’s brain (Norton’s character remains unnamed throughout the film referring to himself as ‘Jack’ after reading magazine articles about organs which refer to themselves in the first person as ‘Jack’). This more or less sums up what the movie is all about- the psyche of the young male mind. Jack is a ‘recall analyst’ who suffers from insomnia and gets his kicks out of ordering furniture from a catalogue for his apartment. He seeks refuge from his insomnia by going to support groups (which he doesn’t need to go t...