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Fight Club is an iconic movie directed by David Fincher in 1999. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Chuck Palahniuk. The Fight Club's main characters are played by Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter. Edward Norton plays the role of an unidentified narrator who is unhappy with his job. He's a liability specialist for a major car company. Therefore, he forms a fight club with Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt), a soap salesman. As a result, the narrator finds himself in a relationship with Durden and a woman named Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter). Pretty much all David Fincher’s films are so dark and hopeless that they can make unstable people experience the effects of bipolar disorder. According to Fincher, there's a Brad Pitt in every Edward Norton. The latter goes crazy with his everyday life's tiring routine and takes courses for people suffering from insomnia. The first one, in turn, known how to make TNT, drinks tons of beer, and, being a waiter, pees in the soup of wealthy visitors. Together they form an outstanding community – a fight club – where people who are tired of their insignificance can experience intense emotions and almost fight each other to death. Because what can make you feel alive better than breaking someone’s bones? The main characters believe that the consumer society has deprived people of a concept of masculinity, so perhaps the fight club can show others who real men are. Told in flashback, Fight Club is probably the most radical Hollywood movie ever released. Like all the director’s previous films, Fight Club is a rebus, a puzzle that does not fall within one definite genre. The bottom line of the movie, though, is that everyone needs to find meaning in life because this is what helps us cope with the chaos that overwhelms us from inside and out. Because if you can’t cope with the mayhem, one day you will, too, meet Tyler Durden.

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