synopsis:

The world of in which 'Fight Club' takes place is a lonely one, especially for Jack, the film's narrator and tour guide. He spends his days working for a car manufacturer, weighing the cost of an automobile recall against the expected settlements for lawsuits arising from a deadly defect, while spending his nights filling up his apartment with picture-perfect furnishings from the latest Ikea catalog. Jack's life is a meaningless existence, spent on airplanes and assembly-line tasks, being nothing more than a small cog in a faceless consumerism-driven machine. Starved for human contact and genuine emotions in his workaholic world, his bottled up emotions manifest themselves as a recurring bout of insomnia.

At first, he finds solace in attending support group meetings for a wide range of diseases that he does not have. Jack finds the easy and genuine liberation of emotions by the attendees at these sessions conducive to peaceful sleep, and attending these sessions quickly becomes an addiction. However, his newfound panacea is short-lived when he encounters Marla Singer, another 'faker' whose presence at his sessions serve as a reminder of his own insincerity.

Unable to attain the peace of mind with another faker in the room, Jack slides back to his usual pointless routine of droning days and sleepless nights, cynical of his fate and lacking the will to change. However, this all changes when he meets Tyler Durden, an equally cynical man who sells soap made from human fat. This chance meeting with Tyler sets in motion a number of profound emotional and lifestyle changes in Jack, starting with an accidental explosion that destroys his trinket-filled apartment. With no place to stay, Jack crashes at Tyler's ramshackle house set in the midst of an industrial wasteland, and soon finds much in common with his host. Together, the newfound friends start 'Fight Club', a secret society where men find emotional release and self-actualization by beating each other to a pulp. However, this pugilistic underground organization is merely the first step in Tyler's master plan, a scheme that quickly evolves from small acts of vandalism and mischief into a terrorist-cult named Project Mayhem.in the end it turns out that tyler durden is jack's alter ego. jack shoots himself in the head, killing tyler durden but 'rescuring' himself. project mayhem, however, cannot be undone and while jack promises himself and marla to become 'normal' again, they watch the towers of the IBM company explode.about this movie:When Oregonian author Chuck Palahnuik first unleashed his novel 'Fight Club' onto an unsuspecting public back in 1996, he drew both praise and criticism for his unflattering exploration of 'mischief, mayhem, and soap'. On the one hand, he has been called this generation's answer to J.

G. Ballard (see "I wanted to rub the human face..." ), a literary genius whose acerbic wit and cynical outlook speaks for the alienated, the disaffected, and the ignored. In contrast, others have viewed Palahnuik's seminal work with disdain, accusing the thirty-something author of glorifying violence, desensitizing readers to the ugly consequences of his nihilistic philosophy. Likewise, the cinematic incarnation of Palahnuik's tome, starring brad pitt, edward norton and Helena Bonham Carter, the outcome of intense bidding between rival studios, has also created much of the same polarization among audiences and critics, who pit the film's intellectual underpinnings against its visceral depictions of violence.despite all the controversy, Fincher has created what could easily be described as the 90s A Clockwork Orange as it is an unflinching look at what society has done to men. the movie can provide a better understanding of what can happen to men in a crazed, consumer-driven world.