Fight Club (1999) – 25th Anniversary!

A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up with their mundane lives. Their perfect partnership frays when Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, attracts Tyler’s attention.

From the guitar roar on the Dust Brothers’ opening title track through to the thundering drums of Pixies’ Where Is My Mind? it is pure synapse-splitting sensory overload and the road that commercial cinema refused to take. – Times (UK)

It’s about being young, male and powerless against the pacifying drug of consumerism. It’s about solitude, despair and bottled-up rage… It’s about daring to imagine the disenfranchised reducing the world to rubble and starting over. – Rolling Stone