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Have you seen Fight Club yet? Most everyone has, but a few viewers have actually somehow managed to miss this movie. Of course, it wasn’t just a movie, it was also something of a cultural event. Love it or hate it, you have to respect that it was one of the most influential films of the last twenty years, at least deserving as much respect as Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction or Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas. It was the movie that ended the nineties as those two movies began the era, and certainly one of the must download movies of the decade.

The movie follows Ed Norton as an unnamed narrator who serves as our lead character. He’s a white collar office worker dissatisfied with his lot in life, and the movie draws a lot of comparisons to Office Space which came out around the same time. The two films are very different, however. They use much of the same subject matter, but Fight Club is much darker, much more brooding, while at the same time… Just as funny, albeit in a darker, more sarcastic sort of way.

The narrator meets Tyler Durden, and the rest is history. Durden is a character who is completely free of the boundaries of society placed on most people. You know Kramer, from Seinfeld? He’s kind of like that. Just, imagine how dangerous, frightening, and at the same time, inspiring, Kramer would be if you took him out of the sitcom setting and put him into a world where his actions could result in serious consequences.

Tyler is really the heart of the film, forming the Fight Club alongside the narrator. The Fight Club begins innocently enough as a bare knuckle get together where white collar guys get together and beat each other up for the fun of it and to reaffirm their manhood in a society that has sissified them and turned them into cowardly cubicle slaves rather than raw, testosterone driven animals.

Once they start robbing banks and trying to take over the world, you see that the Fight Club is an expression of rage, that impotent rage that all men feel in a society that has castrated them in a symbolic way. The movie is outlandish and surreal, but this part isn’t. That anger is very real, and it seems entirely realistic that, given the right catalyst, men really could just go crazy and start blowing things up for no good reason (heck some guys already do it).

The way it ties everything up is fascinating and was, at the time, an incredible and unpredictable plot twist. Since, it’s become sort of cliche. This movie and the Sixth Sense both created their own style of “surprise endings”, and created trends that would eventually get a little tired but which, at the time, were exciting and interesting.

Norton quickly skyrocketed in fame with this movie, proving that he could take some really exciting projects and make the most of them. Since, his career has had a lot of ups and downs, with a cool, edgy flick one year, and some weak box office bait the next. This is one of his best, though, and the same goes for Brad Pitt.

The movie is incredibly violent, it’s very surreal. Outside of the violence, some of the details involving the making of soap are disgusting. The movie uses these shock tactics to really get under your skin and make a statement about humanity and the nature of shock, and in the end, it has more questions than it does answers, like any honest film.

When you download movies online, you can send an email to your friends and family to share the link you have used. Films Download Thunder Heart is a great movie loosely based on true events on an Indian reservation that stars Val Kilmer. I love being able to watch any episode of any popular TV show online whenever I want.