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…
white-collar job, depressed, and plagued with insomnia. His only solace is to attend support groups for various afflictions and illnesses, none of which he possesses. In one of his various support groups, he meets a woman named Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter, who is also a support group imposter or “tourist.” Her presence robs him of his comforting release and forces him to search elsewhere for a new source of mitigation. On his way back from a business trip, the narrator meets a…
work, typically found throughout the internet) and multiple parody scenes found in the media. A running list of elements are synonymous with a Tim Burton film such as color schemes in a gray-scale, his tendencies toward Johnny Depp and wife Helena Bonham Carter as characters in his films, his workings with composer Danny…