My Favourite Movie: " Flight Club"
The narrator (Edward Norton), is an automobile company employee who suffers from insomnia. His doctor refuses to prescribe medication and wryly advised to attend a support group to witness more severe cases. The narrator attends a support group for testicular cancer victims and then to convince them that he is also suffering from the disease, is an emotional release that will cure insomnia.
After a flight back home after a business trip, he finds his apartment destroyed by an explosion. Call Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a soap salesman whom he had met on a plane, and meet in a bar. A conversation about consumerism makes Tyler invites the narrator to stay home. Tyler agrees with the condition that they hit. Both engage in a fist fight outside the bar, so the narrator then moves into the home of Tyler emaciated. Continue to have more fights outside the bar, which attracts a few curious. The fights go to the basement of the bar, where they form a fight club run by a set of rules. Are formed more fight clubs throughout the country, becoming an anti-capitalist organization called Project Mayhem anticorporativista (Project Mayhem), with Tyler as a leader. The narrator complains that Tyler wants to be more involved in the organization, after which Tyler disappears .In one of the cities, a project member calls the narrator by the name of Tyler Durden. The narrator calls from his hotel room and discovers that Marla also believes it is Tyler. Suddenly he sees Tyler Durden in the room, and he explains that they are dissociated personalities within the same body. Tyler controls the body of the narrator when he is asleep.
After the conversation, the narrator falls unconscious. Upon awakening, he discovers the call log phone calls Tyler had done during his blackout. Expose Tyler plans to produce a social chaos through the destruction of buildings that contain records of credit card companies. Thus, bank debt files much of the population would be destroyed. He attempts to disarm explosives in a building, but Tyler subdues him and moves to a safe building to watch the destruction. The narrator, held by Tyler at gunpoint, realizes that in sharing the same body with Tyler, he himself is actually holding the gun. He fires, shooting through the cheek without killing himself. Tyler collapses with an exit wound to the back of his head, and the narrator stops mentally projecting him.
I like this film for the criticism that it contains, in addition to present a central argument of the split personality of the protagonist criticizing the reason and the hegemonic of paradigm capitalist.
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