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Fight Club tells the story of an Everyman who wanders from the safety of his nine-to-five life into a no-mans-land of violence and social insurrection. ... At times, Fight Club plays like a fictionalized version of Stiffed. ... The fight club becomes the means to prove and demonstrate their masculinity to themselves and each other.
As directed by David Fincher, Fight Club is a satire on both the dehumanizing effects of the corporate/consumer culture that forms the backbone of the American Dream, and the absurd excesses of the mens movement. ... Before long, other alienated men begin to participate, and a club is founded for weekly one-on-one fight sessions. ... As Durdens influence on Jack grows, he becomes an accomplice in his escalating program of subversive pranks and mischief, until the fight club morphs into a quasimilitary all-male cult with an antisocial, revolutionary agenda--a kind of surreal prole insurrection against the bourgeois values embodied by the American Dream. ... In Alien 3, a shaven-headed, celibate, all-male penal colony of killers that anticipates Fight Clubs cult of violent, obsolete masculinity, is disturbed first by a woman, then by a libidinously destructive organism that needs to breed. ... In Fight Club, sweeping through Jacks tidy, airless life, Tyler Durden is a galvanizing, subversive force dedicated to revolt against the inauthenticity and mediocrity of the American Dream and modern life, seeking a nihilistic exaltation of disenfranchised masculinity through abjection and destructive transgression.
Despite the extreme politics and extreme fighting, Fight Club is really about how to become a man. ... " (Uhls) Like Stiffed, Fight Club is preoccupied with the outcomes of sons who "grew up with fathers who so often seemed spectral, there and yet not there. ...
Like Stiffed, mans enemy in Fight Club is an insidious "ornamental" culture saturated with commercial images of masculinity. ... " (Uhls)
The fight club, an ultrasecret male society, becomes a substitute for the corporations and other traditional "institutions of brotherhood" that have disappointed men. ... In the film, the basement fight scenes are all shot dark and, more important, damp--with rusty water, gushing blood and other bodily fluids of less determinable origins. ...
Freud would have a field day with the subtext in Fight Club. ... " (Uhls)
So much for the Freudian interpretation of Fight Club. ... With its lofty, highbrow statement delivered in a mass culture format, Fight Club fits the postmodern rule of blurring the distinction between high and low culture. ...
Aesthetically, Fight Club seems to adhere to some characteristics of postmodernism. ... Fight Club also has the postmodernist "tendency toward reflexivity, or self-consciousness, about the production of the work of art. ... For instance, Fight Club first introduces Durden as a series of scratchy, flickering images "subliminally" spliced into the background of the film. ... " (Klages) Fight Club follows this pattern by using Jacks first-person narration to twist, rewind, flash forward, and otherwise manipulate every frame of the story. ...
Like Stiffed, Fight Club ends on a hopeful note. ... Fight Club is all about individuals losing sight of their most important dreams in the consumer culture of the American Dream. ... Still, he seems poised to begin life as an adult man when he sees the error of his violent ways, sends away the Fight Club members and stays with Marla, his tortured soul-mate.
Approximate Word count = 2874
Approximate Pages = 11.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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