Fight Club

A detailed Summary of Fight Club

"Its only after we've lost everything are we free to do anything", Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) states, among many other jewels of contemplation, in Fight Club, a shockingly relatable tale of a Man (Edward Norton) trapped in the world of large corporations, condominium living, and all the money he needs to spend on all the useless "stuff" he doesn't need. As Tyler Durden says "The things you own end up owning you." In fact the entire movie is based around the two juxtaposing thoughts of Tyler Durden and the Man, who remains nameless until three fourths of the way into the movie. This Man is as Tyler Durden says, "working jobs we hate, to buy shit we don't need". Why so many quotes from Tyler? 'In Tyler we trusted' came as a central theme to Fight Club. Tyler was quoted so often because he is so understandable, because he is in all of us - he is the hypothetical Id; What we all want to do, but society tells us not to. That theme applies to our generation, making this movie right on target to appeal to the people of today. Tyler is invincible, Tyler says what he feels, Tyler has no possessions, Tyler has hit rock bottom; all on purpose. And he takes the Man with him and helps him down to hitting bottom. He, in a sense, fr

"You have to consider the possibility that God doesn't like you,

exact opposite of this Man - dressing eccentrically, wearing rose-colored sunglasses, to accentuate the old saying, "looking at life through rose-colored glasses". Tyler makes soap; the soap is made from the fat of humans he steals from liposuction clinics. Grotesque and unreal elements like this make this film a challenge to watch, but never so grim it's impossible.

We are all part of the same compost heap. "

Tyler makes bombs that are all homemade, all without the intention to kill, but to make a statement. Tyler fights society; he works at a restaurant and urinates in the lobster, and "the clam chowder...yeah, you know". He also works at a movie theater wear he splices in one frame of pornography into children's films. So when the "little cat and the little dog with celebrity voices meet for the first time.... 'Nice, big, cock.'" And what makes this disturbing is not the fact that its done, but the fact that the viewer of Fight Club then laughs as he watches the confused parents, and the crying children as for one brief instant you hear a pornographic moan in-between the happy children's film music. That is Tyler Durden. Tyler appeals to the sickness and fear we all have inside of us, the fears of death, of fighting, of being caught. Fight Club is not about a fight club at all. It is about living - with the simple understanding:

So for the twist - the very essence of the film that makes its masterpiece rebellion against the false promises of society that tell us that we all will have fame, money, and high living...the twist; it happens three fourths of the way through the film. You find out the Man's name. His name is Tyler Durden; The Tyler played by Brad Pitt is only a psychologic

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