The movie Fight Club takes place in Wilmington, Delaware and starts off with a narrator, whose name is unknown, that works for an auto insurance company. He suffers from insomnia and his doctor refuses to prescribe him medication for it. Instead he suggests that he attends a support group for testicular cancer victims. Once the narrator attends the support group, he realized that it gives him some sort of emotional release that relieves his insomnia. He quickly becomes addicted to attending…
Fight Club is a perfect novel for the times. Many American men, including myself, have found that they are frustrated with modern day society’s views are how we should behave. Chuck took this issue head on, creating a character who was well behaved on the surface, but haunted by something dark deep down inside of him. This in turn made him want to fight, or “destroy something beautiful” not for any particular reason, but to just feel the pain from it or to feel anything at all. Justin Garrison…
Fight Club is about how an average man is unfulfilled with his life. He’s an insomniac that goes to these support groups that help people go through diseases in hopes to get a nights sleep. He discovers that his spirit animal is a penguin; penguins are flightless birds that always wear a suit and are weak. He creates this masculine alpha male he wants to become in his mind. The theme is masculinity. Tyler Durden is what the narrator wants to be; confident, charismatic, powerful, sexually…
Se7en is a movie written in 1995 by Andrew Kevin Walker and directed by David Fincher. The movie is classifies as a drama mystery and thriller. It talks about two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi. It is quite often raining in the city. Somerset, the veteran criminologist, wears a cap and waterproof shell. Mills, the child who has quite recently been moved into the area, strolls exposed headed in the downpour as though…
Nikolas Cruz is a nineteen-year-old, white male, that is currently awaiting trial on charges of seventeen counts of premeditated murder. Before being taken into custody, he was unemployed and was attending classes to receive his GED. Cruz was raised by his late adoptive parents, Linda Cruz, and Roger Cruz. At age three, Cruz was diagnosed as being developmentally delayed, and it was also found that Cruz had many other mental disorders including: ADHD, depression, autism, obsessive-compulsive…
Ahjussi (아저씨), also known by it’s English title The Man from Nowhere, is an action packed, thriller film starring Won Bin as the movie’s protagonist, Cha Tae Sik. The movie was released on August 4, 2010 and was directed by Lee Jeong Bum. The story begin with Cha Tae Sik, the owner of a pawnshop, who lives by himself and leads a quiet life. He is a quiet man and does not have any friends except for a little girl, Somi, who lives next door with her mom. Somi frequents the pawn shop, often selling…
Illegal immigration It is night when the day begins by (Mother Jones November/ December 2004) explains how hard the life is for the Mexican people who migrate to America for a better life. In California San Joaquin Vicente and his wife Isabel wake up early in the morning. She start making some food for the following day and he get ready for going to work. Also the bakeries open early because people need to take a coffee and go to their work. A lot of workers work in the farm and…
Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Brooklyn born self taught artist. His first attention attracted his graffiti in the city of New York. Basquiat’s artistic talents and inspiration came from his cultural heritage as his mother being Puerto Rican and father a Haitian American. After quitting high school a year before his graduation and years of struggling his work finally got him fame. Receiving fame for his words, stick figures, and animals, the public adored all of his hard work. Basquiat began street…
The Narrator in Chuck Palahniuk’s “Fight Club” is a man who deals with many problems from his childhood and present life. The Narrator who is never named, is identical as everyone else in the capitalist society is looking for meaning in their life. The Narrator works in the office, and he hates his job. Because he lives in a nice apartment with nice IKEA furniture, he has to work the job he doesn’t like; thus, he feels unfulfilled and unhappy. Since the support group can’t help him enough to…
David Fincher’s cult classic film Fight Club (1999) is considered one of the best movies of all time by both critics and casual movie fans. The film follows an unnamed narrator suffering from insomnia. The narrator eventually becomes addicted to attending support groups for diseases he does not have as because they helps him sleep. Eventually however, the support groups are no longer help him sleep and it is at this point that the narrator encounters the charismatic Tyler Durden. Tyler and the…