Ana R (anarsn)

Fist Rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. Second Rule of Fight Club: YOU DO NOT talk about Fight Club. I'm sorry Tyler, but it seems I'll have to break these first two rules. It's impossible to write a coherent review of this movie for it is so mind blowing that I can't seem to be able to find words to describe it.Fight Club is aggressive, dark, disturbing and most of all... IS Real.
It is an emotional and intellectual ride through a man's psyche as he rebelliously fights against a consumer society. Edward Norton plays an average Joe who's in a dead-end. He does his job without questioning it, he's an insomniac slave to his IKEA possessions and only finds delight in going to as many self-help/dealing with terminal diseases sessions as he can. Meeting Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) it's his waking up call.

The acting is nothing short of perfect. It is definitely Brad Pitt best performance and there couldn't have been a better choice to be the Narrator of Fight Club than Edward Norton. He lives his character. He displays every single thing that we, as spectators, needed to fully grab to understand the complex, yet simple, message of this movie.
The lightning, the screenplay, the directing, the soundtrack... everything is brilliant.

You?ll get hypnotized, you'll laugh, you'll shiver and most importantly, you'll identify with everything shown on screen.
Fight Club is a cinematic punch to all those stuck ups who need to wake up from their materialistic world.
When you watch Fight Club, you are not watching it. You are interiorizing it.
It is a brilliant masterpiece like no other.

"All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not."

"[...]Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned."

Prepare yourself for a controversial movie that will stay on your mind for a long time after watching it. That will blow you away for its morality, witted dialogues, gruesome displays, and mostly, for its downright satire. Because most of all, American Psycho is an attack to the absurdities of the '80s yuppie era. A black comedy.

Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a 27 year old Harvard Graduate. On the surface, he is a perfect specimen. Driven by his will to fit in with the upper class, he is perfectly well dressed, fit to the extreme and incredibly handsome. But on the inside, he is... oh well, a psychopathic, troubled, narcissist, disregarded of any compassion guy who lusts for blood. Yes, he should be unlikable... This troubled soul strives to be acknowledged in a world where no one cares who is the guy next to them. And murder, seems to be a perfect display of one's identity... or maybe... they think not?

The acting was just marvelous; Bale was simply superb, not many could have pulled so perfectly Bateman's character. You'll be laughing out loud during most of the movie, I can assure you. Whether by Patrick discussing the nuances of Pop music before killing someone with an axe or by watching business men drooling over each other's fetishistic business cards. But still do not get me wrong... the film is comical, a satire, but do expect it to be gruesome. Some aspects of this movie are not suitable for the most sensitive.

In a flash, Patrick Bateman fell into my restricted section of favorite characters, and will so remain there.
Oh, and please Bateman, do not try to feed cats to an ATM machine once again just because the machine tells you to do so.

"I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip."