David Fincher

capitalism, consumerism, subjectivity, rules, and conformity. Various scenes within the movies show involve these, and so do the ideas and arguments by modern theorists connect with Fight Club. I will mainly focus on two theorists, Michel Foucault and David Abram. And tell how some of their ideas appear in various scenes in the movie. In Fight Club the Narrator suffers from insomnia and is stuck in a dead end job. After he fails to get medication from a doctor. He then goes to medical support…

semester it is hard for me to pick just one film. However, I can pick my favorite director who is none other than David Fincher. David Fincher is known for many films such as “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, Se7ven, Fight Club, Zodiac, Gone Girl, and of course “The Social Network”. What I love about his film is the cinematography and overall look of the film. In terms of cinematography Fincher in his films is known for using lots of extreme close ups. However, I personally enjoy many of his…

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…

There is a vast amount of differences between Japanese culture and American culture. The movie Shall We Dansu is an excellent character study of people that make up the working class in Japan. Shall We Dansu follows depressed business man Mr. Sugiyama as he lives a mundane lifestyle until he finds himself drawn to a ballroom dancing class because of a entrancing woman he always sees there when he is on the train. Despite having an excellent position at the large company he works at, a devoted…

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…

David Fincher's Se7en, directed in 1995, is a noir thriller film that turns those traditional deadly sins into a force to be reckoned with. Se7en focuses on the realities of death than life. The plot revolves around two detectives on the hunt of a religious psychopath who embarks a crusade for God. Detective Somerset, played by Morgan Freeman, and his new replacement Detective Mills, Brad Pitt, are both introduced in a case of a man’s gruesome death. There is great imagery when connecting the…

The book is very repetitive; the movie pushes you through the story swiftly, still getting the valid points across. Ida, Victor’s mother isn’t the greatest role model for a child to have. She is a junkie, criminal, and we later find out a kidnapper. (Throughout the story we see her kidnapping victor from his foster families, but the big surprise doesn’t come until the end when we find out that Victor isn’t even her child. She stole him out of a stroller in Waterloo, Iowa when he was a baby. )…

Tyler buys the narrator drinks and uses sexual language before their first fight, which signifies that fighting, like sex, is an intimate thing. Before this scene takes place, the viewer discovers that the narrator’s apartment blows up, and he remains homeless. Having no one else to call, he calls Tyler, and Tyler takes him to the bar to buy him drinks. The narrator needs a place to stay, and Tyler tells him to “cut the foreplay and just ask” (Fight Club). Later on throughout the scene, the…

An Idiot Abroad What will happen when a touchy couch potato becomes a reluctant world traveler? An Idiot Abroad can give you the answer. In this British travel comedy series, a man named Karl Pilkington is sent by his friends, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, to travel to several foreign countries around the world. In the episode that is to be discussed here, he was made to visit Thailand and was asked to perform a variety of quirky tasks assigned by his friends. There are certain elements in…

The novel centers on unnamed narrator who struggles with life and suffers from insomnia. Henry A. Giroux says, “Fight club portrays a society in which public space collapses and is filled by middle-class white men disoriented in the pandemonium of conflicting social forces who end up with a lot of opportunities for violence” (71-72). He works as a Product Recall Specialist for unnamed company. He is responsible for determining if product recalls or detective models meet cost benefit analysis.…