"Is that what a man looks like?" To me, that is the central question of 1999's "Fight Club," a revolutionary movie about revolutionary men in a time of complacence. Like a thousand cinematic rebels without causes before them, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt play young men uncertain about their place in the world. Lacking fathers, traditional male role models or even identities beyond what consumer culture dictates for them, they define themselves by rejecting the definition that society has placed upon them.
Fight Club (1999)
Fight Club (1999)
Fight Club (1999)
"Is that what a man looks like?" To me, that is the central question of 1999's "Fight Club," a revolutionary movie about revolutionary men in a time of complacence. Like a thousand cinematic rebels without causes before them, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt play young men uncertain about their place in the world. Lacking fathers, traditional male role models or even identities beyond what consumer culture dictates for them, they define themselves by rejecting the definition that society has placed upon them.