Fightclub

Fight Club tells the story of an Everyman who wanders from the safety of his nine-to-five life into a no-man's-land of violence and social insurrection. The protagonist, played by Edward Norton, is a white-collar cipher who joins an underground boxing society and engages in barefisted fighting in a desperate attempt to recover his sense of manhood. How did he lose it? Attaining the American Dream--the right job, home, and all the other trappings of affluence--caused him to lose any sense of himself as a strong, powerful, individualistic man with a purpose who is in control of his own destiny. At times, Fight Club plays like a fictionalized version of Stiffed. It closely follows Susan Faludi's thesis that the masculinity crisis results from men participating in a dominant "ornamental" culture that robs any real, substantial meaning from their identities. The fight club becomes the means to prove and demonstrate their masculinity to themselves and each other.
As directed by David Finch...