What A Year in Nepal and Fight Club Have in Common

My favorite movie of all time is David Fincher's Fight Club, and it's not even close- this movie wins for me by a good mile. As a testament to how bad the marketing was for it, I was reluctant to go see it when it came out, believing it to be an action movie with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. A little bored while in Dublin at the end of a backpacking trip around Europe, Kim convinced me to go see it as she was keen to get a look at a shirtless Edward Norton even if the movie sucked. If you haven't seen it, or if you did and didn't pay attention, you might think the movie is about fighting, violence, and male bravado. It's not. The movie, at it's core, is about someone wanting to change their life and finding a way to get himself out of what he finds as an unfulfilled existence. If you haven't seen the film, or you missed this point entirely, I highly recommend watching it. While Chuck Palahniuk is one of my favorite authors, and the book is quite good, this is the only movie I can think of where the movie is as good, if not better, than the book....and it's a good book.

-Warning: Movie/Book Spoiler-