Favorite movie/novel

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One of my favorite movies is the legendary Fight Club. Fight Club is not a regular movie which one may think, it may actually take a person a couple times to watch it to understand it completely. The movie is a psychological thriller about a guy who is a schizophrenic and has two personalities. During the movie the main character, Edward Norton, is bored and depressed with his life and because of that, he creates another life which is more exciting. A doctor he sees refuses to feed him prescription drugs for insomnia and instead he refers him to visit a support groups. He goes to many support groups such as a testicular cancer victims group in order to appreciate real suffering. He finally starts feeling good about himself because at each group he let himself come out emotionally until he met Marla who started haunting his joy because he knew she was a fake just like him. He eventually starts drifting away into his second personality played by Brad Pitt. During the movie you don’t realize that Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are the same person until the near end of the movie. Edwards’s second life, played by a made up character Tyler Durden, is made of fighting and crime committing. This makes him feel like he belongs and adds some kind of purpose to his dull life. Edward and the fictional Tyler become best friends; the two of them start Fight Club for men who desire to fight to relief their daily stress they face in their lives. The club eventually makes it nationwide “where” they built franchises all over the United States. During Fight Club, the character Tyler starts a relationship with Marla. Then he starts to form a fraternity that commits crime and terror, while this is occurring Edward finally realizes that he is actually Tyler too. The movie has a perfect twist to it; it is a psychological thriller that you don’t see in a regular action movie. I can watch this movie over and over again.

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Date: January 20, 2009