Sociological Movie Review – Fight Club
Submitted for SOCI 1001B
7 October, 2015
Vishahan Thilagakumar
100994856
TA: Mira Knox
Instructor: Priscillia Lefebvre
Fight Club - Sociological Movie Review Fight Club is a movie involving a man, played by Edward Norton (Although the name of the character isn’t mentioned, but referred to in the credits as The Narrator), living in a very systematic, civilized and repetitive world, who snaps and ends up being forced to abandon everything he has when he meets Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, his split personality who is the exact opposite of the main protagonist and the people he is surrounded by.
The overall theme is mentioned by Brad Pitt on which is “It’s not until you lose everything that you are free to do anything.” (Linson, Chaffin, Bell & Fincher, 1999). The meaning is explained with another quote from Brad Pitt, “The things you own end up owning you.” (Linson, Chaffin, Bell & Fincher, 1999). So the overall theme is to break free the material consumer based items that hold us slaves to them and preventing us from living our lives as individuals.
“Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.” (Linson, Chaffin, Bell & Fincher, 1999) said by The Narrator as he …show more content…
This movie makes the assumption that mainly those who are white, by skin colour and cultural group really care about their lifestyle, or simply that they don’t exist in that world as this isn’t touched on at all throughout the movie, and the only prominent none white character is seen to be the detective of police who doesn’t appear to be in Project Mayhem, despite everyone surrounding him, being
Submitted for SOCI 1001B
7 October, 2015
Vishahan Thilagakumar
100994856
TA: Mira Knox
Instructor: Priscillia Lefebvre
Fight Club - Sociological Movie Review Fight Club is a movie involving a man, played by Edward Norton (Although the name of the character isn’t mentioned, but referred to in the credits as The Narrator), living in a very systematic, civilized and repetitive world, who snaps and ends up being forced to abandon everything he has when he meets Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, his split personality who is the exact opposite of the main protagonist and the people he is surrounded by.
The overall theme is mentioned by Brad Pitt on which is “It’s not until you lose everything that you are free to do anything.” (Linson, Chaffin, Bell & Fincher, 1999). The meaning is explained with another quote from Brad Pitt, “The things you own end up owning you.” (Linson, Chaffin, Bell & Fincher, 1999). So the overall theme is to break free the material consumer based items that hold us slaves to them and preventing us from living our lives as individuals.
“Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.” (Linson, Chaffin, Bell & Fincher, 1999) said by The Narrator as he …show more content…
This movie makes the assumption that mainly those who are white, by skin colour and cultural group really care about their lifestyle, or simply that they don’t exist in that world as this isn’t touched on at all throughout the movie, and the only prominent none white character is seen to be the detective of police who doesn’t appear to be in Project Mayhem, despite everyone surrounding him, being