Fight Club

This film, though it came out in theaters here, I had never seen it before. It was kind of weird and creepy but I guess I got the whole idea behind the movie. Edward Norton, plays the narrator and can't sleep for months due to his illness of insomnia. His doctor advises him to go to group therapy meetings, where he cries, and somehow these meetings are the only way he can sleep at night; that is, til he meets Marla Singer, who is a faker at these meetings just as much as he is.
Through this weird encounter with Marla Singer, they decide to split up the group therapy meetings so they don't run into each other anymore, they exchange numbers to keep in touch though. Norton, then "meets" Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a soap salesman, on a business trip, Durden just happens to know how to make homemade dynamite. Norton comes home, to an apartment that was just blown off the 15th floor. Norton calls Tyler asking for a place to stay, Tyler takes him in, and they start to have this little bromance while living together.
These two men start the Fight Club, which happens to just be a bunch of men, with simple rules, fighting everything out of them, when it's done, it's done and that's that. To me, the Fight Club kind of represented the average joe, constantly being pushed down by society, looking for an outlet of excitement and a sense of belonging to something bigger than themselves.
Tyler who seems to be the brains of the whole operation, kind of preaches to the men, about how they are the ones doing the "dirty" work, they are just the average man being dominated by those that are part of the upper class society. They try to go against every concept of the matrix of domination, but the weird thing is, they're all men, the only woman in the film is Marla, who is constantly being taken advantage of and shunned everytime she comes around.
I felt like this was the perfect portrayal of the problem with male masculinity. In the end, we find out that Tyler Durden doesn't really exist, and that Norton just created him in his mind, as a sort of more manly portrayal of himself. Tyler does all the things that Norton wouldn't have done. Tyler seems like the new, upgraded version of Norton.
Eventually Fight Club turns into Project Mayhem, none of the men have names, and they go against "the man" in other words all the norms of society. These men feel an insecurity of some sort, that they have to prove themselves to one another through membership of Project Mayhem. They only find satisfaction in pleasing one another and going by the rules of Project Mayhem.
Though this film was kind of weird, it turned out that I liked it. The fighting was brutal and it seemed everyone was in some state of disillusionment, but I guess that's how we are when we just function and set into our niche in society. The Fight Club was trying to go against that niche and against all forms of consumerism.