The Reign of Consumerism in Fight Club:
Film analysis of Fight Club
Fight Club (1999) is a film directed by David Fincher based on the same name novel of the by Chuck Palahniuk in 1996. Films are not merely art form or product for consumption. They are also a form of social practice that conveys and constructs meanings for its audiences; in its narratives and meaning we can understand the ways in which our culture makes sense of itself. Fight Club hits audiences to question their habits phobias and obsessions, it shows how the species is influenced and manipulated. The film takes audiences back to themselves and to their conscience. In the essay, the writer would try to discuss how the narrative and the mise-en-scene (characters and props) …show more content…
The film shows this rejection on the scene that is Tyler and Jack in the bus. Jack see a Gucci underwear’ advertisement in a bus, then he asked Tyler “That’s what a man should look like?” And he relies, “Self-improvement is masturbation, it will destroy itself.” It is this aptitude to be taken with a sense of free that Director wants to tell audiences through the film. The idea of the film can be pointed out by the expression: “For complete freedom, chaotic life is recommended.” Tyler clarifies this in the answer “I reject all the assumptions of civilization especially the importance of material …show more content…
In the film, Jack is order, the follower in the commodities culture but Tyler is disorder and anarchy, the resistant of society. Tyler is Jack’s another self. Tyler says to Jack: “All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not” One of the scenes shows Tyler walks in the gutter and Jack walk on the sidewalk. It shows the binary oppositions, one of them following the society rules and the other does not. Their relationship causes the formation of the Fight Club, a kind of underground Fight Club which settled up into the street and established in several places at night explicitly for fighting. They set up eight rules of the Fight Club and the first two are most significant. First rule: it is forbidden to talk about Fight Club. And Second rule: it is forbidden to talk about Fight Club. These two rules represented the resistant of consumerism and advertising. It is worth allowing for the paradox of these Fight Club rules, as despite themselves, the Fight Club develops another slave system that is determined on fighting and look like another system of consumerism and advertising. After fighting planned illegal in pubs at night, the Fight Club developed to an illegal organization for the burdened to fight. Tasks will be delivered to followers
Film analysis of Fight Club
Fight Club (1999) is a film directed by David Fincher based on the same name novel of the by Chuck Palahniuk in 1996. Films are not merely art form or product for consumption. They are also a form of social practice that conveys and constructs meanings for its audiences; in its narratives and meaning we can understand the ways in which our culture makes sense of itself. Fight Club hits audiences to question their habits phobias and obsessions, it shows how the species is influenced and manipulated. The film takes audiences back to themselves and to their conscience. In the essay, the writer would try to discuss how the narrative and the mise-en-scene (characters and props) …show more content…
The film shows this rejection on the scene that is Tyler and Jack in the bus. Jack see a Gucci underwear’ advertisement in a bus, then he asked Tyler “That’s what a man should look like?” And he relies, “Self-improvement is masturbation, it will destroy itself.” It is this aptitude to be taken with a sense of free that Director wants to tell audiences through the film. The idea of the film can be pointed out by the expression: “For complete freedom, chaotic life is recommended.” Tyler clarifies this in the answer “I reject all the assumptions of civilization especially the importance of material …show more content…
In the film, Jack is order, the follower in the commodities culture but Tyler is disorder and anarchy, the resistant of society. Tyler is Jack’s another self. Tyler says to Jack: “All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not” One of the scenes shows Tyler walks in the gutter and Jack walk on the sidewalk. It shows the binary oppositions, one of them following the society rules and the other does not. Their relationship causes the formation of the Fight Club, a kind of underground Fight Club which settled up into the street and established in several places at night explicitly for fighting. They set up eight rules of the Fight Club and the first two are most significant. First rule: it is forbidden to talk about Fight Club. And Second rule: it is forbidden to talk about Fight Club. These two rules represented the resistant of consumerism and advertising. It is worth allowing for the paradox of these Fight Club rules, as despite themselves, the Fight Club develops another slave system that is determined on fighting and look like another system of consumerism and advertising. After fighting planned illegal in pubs at night, the Fight Club developed to an illegal organization for the burdened to fight. Tasks will be delivered to followers