A Good Bad Movie

Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk.  The book follows the experiences of an unnamed person struggling with insomnia.  The director David Fincher adapted the novel into a film of the same name in 1999 starring two of the most favorite actors in the Hollywood film market.   

This movie is mentioned about a thirty-something young office guy, the Narrator, with somewhat materialism attitudes from his emptiness inside looking for a solution to cure his insomnia.  The director was able to present the message concerning the human being about the dark and psychological weakness within.  All the plots were described in details and projected to a big screen; the emotions of the audiences were persuaded by the realistic audio and video effect with magnifying the sense of anti-reality, violation and sexuality.

With all these elements, Fight Club received many nominations from different awards including nominated as the Best Film, the Best Actor, the Best Editing and the Best DVD in 1999 and 2000.  Ironically, it is also nominated as the Best Fight by MTV Movie Award for the actor in the movie fighting against him.

In fact, some critical receptions were reported. When Fight Club premiered at the Venice International File Festival, an oldest file festival in the world, it was debated critics. Another newspaper reported, "Many loved and hated it in equal measures." Some critics expressed concern that the film would incite copycat behavior.  Upon the film's theatrical release, The Times reported the reaction: "It touched a nerve in the male psyche that was debated in newspapers across the world.” Although the film's makers called Fight Club "an accurate portrayal of men in the 1990s", some critics called it "irresponsible and appalling". 

Another newspaper charged, "Fight Club is shaping up to be the most contentious mainstream Hollywood meditation on violence.”