Fight Club (R 18+) PRESENTED IN 35MM FILM

Fight Club at The Revival House Perth

An insomniac office worker (Edward Norton) leads a numb, consumerist existence—trapped in a soulless job, obsessed with IKEA furniture, and finding his only emotional release at support groups for diseases he doesn't have. On a business flight, he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a charismatic soap salesman with a very different philosophy about modern masculinity and materialism. After the narrator's condo mysteriously explodes, destroying his perfect catalog life, he moves into Tyler's decrepit house. One night, Tyler makes an unusual request: hit me as hard as you can. That spontaneous parking lot brawl evolves into Fight Club—an underground network where men gather in basements to beat each other bloody and feel truly alive for the first time. As Fight Club grows and attracts a devoted following, Tyler transforms it into Project Mayhem, an anarchist organization planning to destroy the foundations of consumer culture. But as the violence escalates, the narrator begins questioning Tyler's methods and discovers a truth that changes everything.

Director David Fincher adapts Chuck Palahniuk's novel into a visceral assault on turn-of-the-millennium masculinity and consumer culture. The 1999 film is a technical marvel—Jeff Cronenweth's cinematography creates a world of sickly greens and institutional grays punctuated by blood and explosion, while the editing and special effects create disorienting visual tricks that mirror the narrator's fractured psyche. Norton and Pitt create an unforgettable dynamic, their chemistry driving the film's exploration of identity and rebellion. The Dust Brothers' electronic score pulses with aggression, while Fincher stages the brutal fights with unflinching intensity. What initially seems like celebration of violence reveals itself as savage satire of toxic masculinity and revolutionary posturing. Helena Bonham Carter completes the triangle as Marla Singer, chaos incarnate. The film's twist ending and final images became instantly iconic.

Original format and audio experience of this film faithfully reproduced by The Revival House. Presented in 35mm film unless noted otherwise.

When: Thursday, April 23rd at 7:20PM
Where: The Revival House at the Como Theatre
Rating: R 18+ (Medium level violence)

His name is Robert Paulson—experience Fincher's explosive satire that defined a generation's rage and remains dangerously relevant, in 35mm film.

Presented by: The Revival House Perth