Fight+Club


 * Fight club directed by David Fincher **

In the beginning the narrator talks about having insomnia, and how he is never awake and never asleep. Tyler is his ‘alter ego’ and does everything opposite the narrator would do. Tyler is the extreme opposite of the narrator, and is used to balance out the person as a whole. As we see in the movie, Tyler has a big impact on the narrator’s life (for example, his job where he gets fired because he’s become so sloppy)

Throughout the movie, sound was used to create tension. For example, in the beginning when the narrator was calling Tyler. Tyler didn’t answer at first but called right back. At that moment there tension was created with the sound, along with the movement of the camera focusing on the pay phone. This was to focus all attention on to the phone just as the narrator was feeling.

Lighting was used to contrast with the comical dialogue. An example would be when Tyler asks the narrator to hit him outside of the bar, right before the narrator moves in to Tyler’s house. If we mute the dialogue, no one would guess that the actual dialogue was funny. The lighting makes the scene look really intense. But with the comical dialogue, the scene contrasts with the lighting and the actual dialogue.

There is plenty of intercutting between scenes, and therefore defies chronological order. By doing so, Fincher has created a more dream-like storyline, and made the movie more interesting, rather than presenting everything step by step. Furthermore, Fincher added the narrator’s ‘inner voice’. This gave us first-hand information about what the narrator was feeling and his experience. Another editing technique that was used was the rather clichéd, slow motion climax. When the narrator shot himself, we got a slower view of what was happening, and therefore added tension to the scene.