How to evaluate "Fight Club"

"Fight Club" is a surreal movie that is full of reflections on self-awareness and discussion of personal values. The protagonist's split personality actually reflects the struggle between socially recognized values ??and self-values ??that exists in everyone. Taylor is another self he imagined. He gradually cannot control the split of his dual personality. When society continues to put pressure on him , deprived of his dignity and sense of personal existence, Taylor's behavior of retaliating against society became more and more fanatical. Like David Fincher's previous works, the analysis of character psychology is the main theme of the film. Whether or not a special character can be created that resonates with the public is the key to the success of the film. Therefore, in addition to the actors' performances, the director deliberately used more colors in terms of auxiliary factors such as tone control and scene scheduling. Compared with "Seven Deadly Sins", the color and photography of this film are more bold and individual.

First of all, most of the night scenes in this film are shot in low-key and hard tones (black and dark gray are the main components of the picture), while most of the day scenes are shot in high-key and soft tones. Efforts were made to create two completely different environments. During the day, it presents an indifferent realism style, while at night, it presents an unstable and surreal color, thus forming a strong contrasting effect in terms of visual style. This is because when shooting during the day, the lighting engineer deliberately makes the light change little, and the overall color is greenish with small chromatic aberration, which creates a boring mentality. The light at night is full of changes, and the top lighting effect of fluorescent lamps enhances the contrast between light and dark. Fluorescent lighting is not commonly used in movies because its lighting effect is not conducive to shaping the character's image, and the outline and expression of the face cannot be seen clearly, and it lacks beauty. However, Fincher deliberately imitated household fluorescent lighting, whether it is a night scene or a day scene. It can be seen that the director The psychological impact of pursuing a specific environment is greater than the pursuit of visual beauty. It is far more important for the photographer to make the picture comfortable than to make the picture beautiful. It is much more difficult to grasp the matching of characters and plot than to grasp the proportion of the composition. Eighty percent of domestic photographers can take beautiful images, but they may not be able to take uniform pictures. Therefore, when it’s time to take ugly pictures, you should take ugly pictures!

Secondly, in terms of film, considering most of the dark tones of the film, KODAK’s 5279VISION500T high-sensitivity film is a very good choice. The exposure point of the human face is below that of ordinary Hollywood movies. 1-2 stops, and rarely use rim lighting. The director intends to highlight the general environment rather than a certain character. This is a fresh attempt in Hollywood movies. As ingenious as the flashlight's flowing light changes in "Seven Deadly Sins", "Fight Club" boldly uses glare and reflected light techniques to interweave known and unknown light, and the changes in light and shade further highlight the mystery of the atmosphere. For example, in the opening scene where Norton fantasizes about a plane crash, the rapid changes in light and the inversion of light and dark are very dramatic, not only depicting the chaos of the disaster, but also creating Norton's unconstrained imaginary world. This film mostly uses upward shooting techniques in terms of shooting angles. The upward shots mainly focus on Taylor and Norton after his personality transformation. The upward shots reasonably avoid the problem of the ceiling light source being too large in the picture, thus making it more convenient. It helps to keep the entire film in a low-key tone. At the same time, this can also create a sense of turmoil and crisis in the atmosphere. The camera movement here is difficult to detect, does not overwhelm the film, and is very suitable for viewing in a movie theater. The above analysis is rough. I only briefly analyzed it focusing on lighting and photography. There are many more places that can be explored in this film.