以下影评发布在rateyourmusic网站上，写的并没有什么深度，纯当练笔了。
I believe that's a good movie. It's not about the plot itself being so incredible, but succeeding in maintaining its incredibility after the viewer knows/guesses the plot and just immerses in the way it is structured.


Alright, compliments on the functioning of the film set aside, I'd like to discuss this movie's ideology, and I would prefer calling it anarchism. I found two essential elements in the film:
1. Critique of the delusion of daily life, especially in a capitalist way. Throughout the film, we can spot several times when Tyler Durden yells at the narrator (of course, we get to know it's just schizophrenia) about how pathetic daily life is. If we seek this element in literature, it somewhat reminds me of Der Steppenwolf written by Hermann Hesse, whose theme aligns with this movie perfectly - to protest against the mediocrity of capitalist, little-bourgeoisie, steady life. This creates the purpose of fight club - to destroy the consistency of capitalist delusion, to see blood instead of pay bills, to see a corpse instead of your boss.

2. However, the protest against capitalism doesn't make this film an anarchist film. This film provides an unfiltered vision of anarchism founded in a people’s history for mass action emerging spontaneously to resist the alienation of late capitalism. The commencement of Project Mayhem is reminiscent of Kropotkin's concept of mutual aid and the localized insurrection, as well as the radical spontaneity of Mao's late-period movements, such as the Cultural Revolution, when ordinary people, not the elites, became the historical agent of change. The emphasis on the people taking action at the grass-roots level expresses a historical materialist framework in which the people are making history for themselves.
The split between the Narrator and Tyler Durden is about more than just mental illness. It is also operating in regards to Deleuze and Guattari's notion of "schizoanalysis," in which the fractured self is attempting to liberate itself from a stagnant capitalist identity. Tyler becomes a "line of flight," an anarchic force resisting the confines of consumer society, and in this sense, the film illustrates the rupture of not only rebellion against capitalism but also the psychic and philosophical rupture to imagine new forms freedom in an aggregate whole.