Fight Club

A detailed Summary of Fight Club

The movie Fight Club, compared to the late 20th century, made a great achievement in the film industry, and significantly depicted the social system of the late 20th century. According to most of the reviewers, the success of the film lies behind the fact that most American men are going to inevitably see some of himself in the movie: the frustration, the uncertainty, the resentment of living in a culture where the previous rules have broken down and one makes his way with so many fewer cultural cues and guideposts.

At heart, Fight Club is really a dark parody about consumerist discontent. First of all Fight Club was one of the most direct depictions of modern society. We can visualize the clear criticisms of the movie from the words of Jamey Hughton, " 'Fight Club' is the kind of breathless experience that chews you up, spits you out, and leaves your senses jaded and disorientated with exhilaration." Secondly, Fight Club was a real evolution of the modern ideals, the emergence of modern atomized individuals and consequently urban alienation. Finally, the movie points out male-female roles and the place of violence in the male identity. Critic Gary Crowdus says it best by writing, "Fight Club members have become so physic

Another depiction of the movie was the gender roles of modern society.

The unimportant atomized individual, who works for the existence and improvement of the system, is alienated from society, from every aspects of the society; the public sphere is collapsed by the consumerism of our era. The narrator was one such person; he was suffering from insomnia, since he was not able to recharge himself by the typical human methods, and did not have a friend to turn to. The only heroine he was able to use were random support groups. Only after participating in these support groups was he able to fall asleep. In fact, these groups were the only place that made him feel as a part of the organic whole, part of society. He was the individual left alone with his commodities and insomnia.

With the case of Bob, an overly obese man with gigantic breasts, who is an ex champion bodybuilder, Fincher is pointing out the change of the modern male from the old powerful violent man to the castrated male who is following the Christian teaching and avoiding fight. The struggle of Bob to be a member of Fight Club was the struggle of man living in a sterile, minimum wage existence dictated by long periods of peace, boring repetitive work, low wages, and an increasingly independent woman. Man is like a jungle-beast asked to do servant-like duties, in a more and more servant-like society. "The goal (of violence) was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history. "We, each of us, can take control of the world." says Tyler and points out the importance of ritualized violence in the structure of male identity.

After the improvement of the new industrial era and consequently the invention of new transportation facilities, the modern society created it's own atomized single individual, which is a logical necessity of the system itself. The character of the narrator, who is bored with his white-collar job and his mail orders, was the typical example of the event. The emphasis on the world in the scenes during travel,

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