The plot of the movie Fight Club summarizes how a young boy who wants to play football gets entangled in a web of rivalries between the wealthy and the aspirational wealthy in his community. Will he wake up before his future is destroyed, or will he become a pawn in their hands?
Review of the film Fight Club: A bunch of masked and armed guys enter a college with the goal of attacking a few students in the opening scene of Fight Club. Abbas A. Rahmath, a debutant director, builds suspense for this confrontation by frantically switching between people and locations to the sound of an alarm clock. However, he cuts to a different scene, to prior events, right before a knife is swung at someone!
In the movie, Abbas makes regular use of this strategy. Tension-filled events are shown to us on television, and right before they blow up, we are thrown into a sequence of earlier occurrences. Editor Kripakaran effectively uses the unpleasant feeling, which is similar to waking up from a dream, to keep us in that mindset. Govind Vasantha, the music director, and cameraman Leon Britto provide excellent assistance to the director and editor. Their mix of electronic music, gaana, and western classical music, in addition to their raw visuals, gives the film a tactile feel.
The film's plot, written by Sasi, is all too familiar; it centers on a person who takes the wrong turn and becomes involved in both old and new rivalries. Here, Selva (Vijay Kumar), a budding football player, becomes entangled in a long-standing conflict between a few people in his community. This feud dates back to 2004, when two ambitious men involved in local drug trafficking, Joseph (Avinash Raghudevan, whose intensity reminds us of actor Kishore in his early years) and Kiruba (Shankar Thas), killed Benjamin (Kaarthekeyan Santhanam), the former's brother and a do-gooder who tried to uplift his people, especially the younger lot, like Selva.
Years later, Joseph—who had been made the fall guy for the murder—decides to utilize Selva as a means of exacting revenge on Kiruba, who is now a budding politician, for abandoning him. Will Joseph's guile take hold of the impulsive child?
Films about young people from a community being taken advantage of by the socio-political environment have affected Fight Club. These include foreign films like City of God as well as local productions from Subramaniapuram, Vada Chennai, Madras, and even the Vijay Kumar-directed Uriyadi! The screenplay demonstrates a singular concentration, and the filmmaking is elegant. Subplots, such as the one featuring Robert, Selva's younger brother (Naveen Vikram), are connected to the main struggle. The unvarnished performances, given by relatively unknown performers, help to establish these characters as real people that we could see in our own communities.
The movie also skillfully incorporates pop culture, from the title credits song "En Jodi Maanja Kuruvi" by Ilaiyaraaja to the hero introduction sequence that takes place in a theater showing Thalapathy, another movie about an underdog choosing to live a violent life for his people. And what use would stunts have in a movie called Fight Club? Similar to Uriyadi, the stunts are executed with such fervor and rawness that they will excite fans of action movies.
However, there are also moments in the movie—particularly in the first part—when it seems like a celebration of this brutality. As a result, when the protagonist's aggressive actions cause him personal harm well into the second half, we lose interest in what happens to the characters. This, together with the story's familiarity, prevents the movie from ascending to the heights to which some of its inspirations were able.
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