“The first rule of Fight Club is not to talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club. Need I say more? Fight Club, a 1996 drama novel by Chuck Palahnuik later adapted for film by director David Fincher, follows the wild experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia who finds "relief" when he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and established an underground boxing. it looks like radical psychotherapy - which will then develop into much more. The story deals with themes of isolationism, masculinity, consumerism, corporate culture, violence, and more. The 1999 film starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton gained a huge cult following despite poor box office results, only grossing its production budget. Even 18 years after its publication, this original work of fiction still exposes the tragic roots at the heart of our modern world, leaving its audience in shocking disbelief. Fight Club centers on an unnamed narrator who, under the stress of his mind-numbing job and jet lag from business travel, suffers from chronic insomnia. His job as a recall coordinator causes a feeling of separation from reality. In deciding whether the cost of the recall is greater or less than the cost of legal action, the narrator turns human life into a simple number that he plugs into an equation. The narrator's frequent travels lead him to wonder, "If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?" His subconscious needs to break free from the routine of his life – foreshadowing the novel's denouement. To alleviate this, he begins attending various terminal illness support groups and discovers that he can only sleep after crying in the middle of a paper...another perspective of the story. That being said, if I hadn't seen the movie before reading the book, I probably would have absolutely no idea what was going on. Because I had an image of the movie in my head while reading, I was able to fully understand what was happening, whereas if I hadn't seen the movie, I would have been totally lost and probably uninterested due to my lack of knowledge about the film. the vocabulary. What was really helpful was the similarity between the book and the movie, with a slightly different ending and some detailed stories omitted from the screen. Fincher said he wanted to stay true to the novel, and I think he did a great job of achieving that. Overall, I really enjoyed the novel and gained more insight into the story while reading it. But in the end, I must say that the film took my head and heart more..