Fight Club

Choi Jin-won directs and pens ‘’Mister Socrates’’, not a typical gangster film, but a movie that combines comedy, crime, drama and social commentary. The main character is Ku Dong-Hyeok (Kim Rae-won), who is a high-school drop-out and low-level thug. He shows no respect for other people, he has no ethics and he just loves to beat people. One night, while he reports the accidental murder of a friend of his, by another friend, he gets kidnapped by a gang. He is kept in an abandoned school and,…

Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her is about a letter writer named Theodore who falls in love with his phone’s operating system. Theodore is lonely and going through a divorce. One day he sees an advertisement for OS1, a new “artificially intelligent” operating system. The ad states, “It’s not just an operating system, it’s a consciousness.” He purchases it and sets it up to have a female voice. When Theodore asks what he should call her, she chooses the name Samantha. She says that she can grow and…

Tyler, a high school senior, is viewed as an outcast and gets overlooked by every single student in his class. That is, until he gets busted spray painting his school and spends his summer doing work to pay for it, he then stands out like you wouldn’t believe. It begins to set off a string of events that have Tyler questioning his place in the world and with his family. He has always struggled with suicidal thoughts, never thinking he was strong enough for anything and was repeatedly…

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…

Time changes so quickly, and so do we. I think we have all noticed that in the short four months we have come to know each other. After receiving my acceptance letter to Grand View, I learned about LOGOs. At first glance, it just seemed like a lot of work and reading. Many upperclassmen warned me of the critical thinking and countless papers that would be formed during this course. However, I was still up for the challenge. When I first walked into our LOGOs classroom back in August, I saw…

Capitalism, according to Marx, is a mode of production based on private ownership of the means of production. It is a system of social relations in which labour-power is commodified and the driving force of society is the accumulation of capital. Marx theorized that economic systems result in two social classes, one of which holds the power and uses it to oppress the other. In capitalism, this is the bourgeoisie, the capitalists, who own the means of production, and the proletariat who’s labour…

surround itself around Dong-chul being Se-jin’s hero. The stakes for Tae-sik are quite high and he is putting his life on the line to save Somi which is a very heroic task. He undergoes a very dangerous journey and is faced with death every time he fights someone. Dong-chul’s heroic feats are not on the same scale as Tae-sik’s but they are do some degree heroic. From running to get Se-jin an umbrella, beating up an employer that wanted to take advantage of her, to stalling her interview, he’s…

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…

One day Kyrie Irving was at church on a dull Sunday. He was about to take out the trash after the service. As soon as he lifted off the lid a demon hopped out and went into his soul. He didn't know what to do. Was he scared? Just a little because he remembered God would fix it. The demon could control him any time he wanted. Luckily the demon did no harm to the people in the church. Since the demon was used to being underground where it's hot, when Kyrie took a shower if made the demon…