Change Your Image
dayanmerwin
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Lists
An error has ocurred. Please try againReviews
Fight Club (1999)
Fight Club: What its really about
Consumers of film and literature take to extreme lengths the quest to find meaning in what they have consumed. Perhaps it is intrinsic nature of man that he must understand everything. It is also his belief that all things posses a higher meaning.
Adapted from the 1994 novel of the same name, Fight Club may very well be the only movie to have no meaning - or rather a very flexible one. It can have many meanings, or no meaning at all. This is in line with the themes of nilhism and nietzchen literature that the film so clearly emulates.
The flexibility of Fight Club stems from its endurance. Released in 1999, the film is still widely talked about and has a severe cult following. Fight Club is anything the viewer wants it to be. It can be a story of two guys who start an amateur boxing league, if you want it to be. Maybe it is a tale of life's most pressing questions and the individual in modern capitalist society, if you want it to be. Or rather it is a tale of ragged masculinity and rebellion against society, again if you want it to be.
But really Fight Club is just a satire. Its a satire on those who love it and those who hate it. Those who've seen it and those who haven't. It's a satire on all of us. But most importantly, Fight Club is a satire on itself. It takes all that it rebels against and absorbs their features.
Tyler Durden does not like God, yet the Project Mayhem members treat him like one. Tyler Durden hates organized society, procedures, standards and rules. Yet he creates a mini society, develops plans, creates standards for membership, creates plans for Project Mayhem and sets rules for Fight Club. He is not a fan of consumer culture, yet he is played by the eternally handsome and widely loved Brad Pitt. Tyler is not afraid of dying, yet he has no life of his own.
Maybe this is why we like Fight Club. Because it is vulgar, obscene and hypocritical. Maybe it is just like us.