Consumerism In Fight Club

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FIGHT CLUB AND POST-MODERNISM

In the Postmodernity, the traditional structures of the world have fallen precipitously. The industrial revolution has ended in complete failure, achieving success has not promoted the welfare among humans and religion has ceased to be transcendent, hence the Nietzsche postulate that "God is dead". Religion has become the worst enemy of freedom of thought. The belief in the virtues of education and the advances in science have also fallen to the ground. This society, brought by the consumerism, is represented in Fight Club. This film has led to the total alienation of modern man and his destruction as an individual. The characters, voluntarily or involuntarily, they face the fight, the punches, those punches

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