I remember watching Fight Club for the first time and none of it made snese to me...well the only thing that did was the ending... After everything has happened...and the guy...(edward norton) and Marla Singer are inside the building and they are watching the other building be destroyed...but its so beautiful and Where Is My Mind by the Pixies comes on...i remember getting a feeling that tomorrow would be ok...and destruction could be beautiful and its ok to be crazy...haha by thats what i got from it...i want to know what others who saw it got from it.
Ahh yes The 'Fight Club' ending is top notch! The whole film is, genius really! Certainly my No.1 The point of the film for me, nowadays anyway, is basically just what Tyler preaches to 'Jack' at the start of the film...Give up trying to have this complete perfect lifestyle and, well evolve is how he put it. Which they took to mean get back to that primal way of life (not evolution that really!). But I think it just means restore some community, maybe? Obvisouly just my own interpretation to make it 100% relevant to me - Not revert to cavemen, just start paying more attention to people instead of products. Which in the film develops into Project Mayhem where the people actually take down the producst! So there's the anti-globalization side of it, a great point made anywhere. The insanity is pure entertainment for me I can't say I bought into the, "People talk to themselves everyday, they unlike you lack the confidence to just run with it" - Nah...Just makes for hillarious fight scenes! But like I say, favourite film, watched it fair few times there now - Back in the beginning the fact they were the same person was a marvellous twist, and I longed for someone to start a project mayhem up.
If you liked the movie, then read the book. It's a little bit different from the movie, and the endings are very different from each other.
Yeah I heard the book ending was differant, I'm still trilled I haven't found out what it is yet! 'Cause there's many a 'classic' book I've yet to read, sadly 'Fight Club' is quite low on the list. What do you think of the Fincher's take on it then, having read the book?
I think he actually did a pretty good job with the movie. Some stuff is changed around a bit and, of course, there's stuff in the book that's not in the movie. But, I think he remained pretty faithful. I don't mind that he changed it to a more Hollywood ending, because it is a movie after all. And actually, the book is a really fast read. You should check it out. Chuck Palahniuk also has some other good books. Some of them make Fight Club look tame.
