Fight Club is a clear prophecy

Fight Club is a visceral movie that can not be analyzed literally, as if the violence that is seen there is only that of a bunch of grown men punching themselves in a basement. There is, behind primary concretism, a critical view of consumerism as an obstacle to people's freedom.

Without falling for proselytism, the plot begins with Jack (Edward Norton), called the Narrator - for reasons that will be seen in the end - in an uncomfortable situation. Threatened with death and stunned by an impending cataclysm, he begins to tell how he arrived in that situation.

An employee of a vehicle manufacturer and travelling across the country to log faults in safety equipment, Jack has a severe insomnia issue, and when looking for a doctor, he tells him to stop whining and go to a support group meeting for testicular cancer patients to see what real suffering is. Jack does so and, interacting with these castrated men, finally

manages to sleep.

Addicted to support groups, the Narrator meets Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who also attends these meetings, but as a kind of voyeur. The two are surprised but gradually establish communication that will be important in history.

But the big jump of the plot is a particular night when Jack returns from a trip and finds his organized apartment destroyed by a fire. Without knowing why, he seeks shelter in the home of Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a soap salesman who had just met on the plane.

Durden is an antagonistic personality to Jack and charms him with libertarian concepts. But it also surprises him with an unusual request: "Hit me as hard as you can!". The two fight and people approach and adhere to the ritual of males beating each other. It is the beginning of Fight Club, an organization that will lead violence to extreme levels.

There is no way not to remember movies like Clockwork Orange. Still, here there is a succession of tricks and metalanguage games that make Fight Club an intriguing film, which, in addition to breaking with the so-called fourth wall, brings an undiscovered surprise present in the entire narrative from the beginning.

The Fight Club review, made 20 years later, shows the prophetic character of the film by showing, in its end, the explosion of two twin towers in Los Angeles (Century Plaza Towers), as would happen two years later in New York, in the most significant terrorist attack ever carried out.