Watching “Fight Club” again with Mike Friday night, I was struck this time by how genuinely funny it is. The humor had never really struck me in the many times I’d seen it before. Helena Bonham Carter’s role, for one example, is primarily hilarious, when you look at it under a certain lens. I would quote lines, but her humor comes mainly from her oddball deadpan, and I just don’t think it can translate.
It’s the mark of a true masterpiece that you see something different, and new, in it each time you look. “Fight Club” has that.
You’re right, Fight Club gets better (and funnier) each time I view it. Marla really makes the film for me, especially on later viewings when I realized that she, who seemed like a complete whackjob the first time around, is actually the only sane person in the whole film.