Why We Fight

Before he ever wrote Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk’s father was murdered, he despised being a journalist, he worked with NPR, and for a while, he worked with people who were terminally ill. (Chalmers) Published in 1996, Fight Club was made into a movie only three years later. The book was based heavily on his own life experiences, such as his membership in the Cacophony Society, which inspired “Project Mayhem”. His work with the terminally ill, especially the death of a patient to whom he had…

Identity The novel Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, tells a story about two men bringing a societal revolution and new era of self-identity. The men in this novel reject to conform to society’s norms and attempt to strip away the unnecessary parts of their lives and discover their true selves. Ultimately, the lives of many revolve around their status and properties, characters achieve a new sense of identity and purpose with the new relationships with themselves, Tyler Durden and Fight Club. The…

Fight Song Life is filled with problems, and we overcome all of it. “Fight Song” by Rachel Platten was released in 2014. This song led our society to notice her. It reached No. 7 on the billboard in August (Lindner par.4) and have 230 million views as of yesterday. Fight song express the bits of reality in our lives. The song is still some of our citizen’s jam. This song is more than uplifting for someone because of its powerful lyrics and never-give-up messages (Lindner par.3). This song can…

The gritty story of the troubled narrator, the destructive Tyler Durden, and their Fight Club is a story known for grim and shockingly realistic themes. Fight Club was Palahniuk’s first novel, as well as his magnum opus. Fight Club is Palahniuk’s most known and work, and is generally regarded as his best. Fight Club follows an unnamed narrator, his close friend Tyler Durden, and his girlfriend Marla Singer. The narrator meets Tyler under mysterious circumstances, as the narrator is unable to…

Mister Socrates by Choi Jin-won Choi Jin-won directs and pens ‘’Mister Socrates’’, a not typical gangster film but a movie which 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 to 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 kidnaped by a gang. He is kept…

Movie review Theme The Internship is about two watch salesmen, Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Owen Wilson). The two are cut off from their jobs after their industry realizes that technology (the digital world) is causing a decline in their business therefore leading to their employers going out of business. Billy then takes the initiative to enroll both him and Nick to an internship at Google, their entrance into this internship programme is a battle. However, they qualify and…

should he leave all this money, wealth, and such an opportunity behind just for the sake of his country? He has lived his life in New York, trying to blend in as an American, trying to remove his foreign identity, but now after all this, should he fight…

Fight Club is an exhilarating thriller directed by David Fincher (Se7en, Gone Girl). This movie was considered one of the most controversial of the year due to its “Fight the System” attitude. The narrator is a nameless, white-collared employee of a law firm who is plagued by insomnia and depression. He medicates his depression through consumerism, a frequent and steady acquisition of “things”. “I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person”, he asks…

David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club, addresses identity and conformity all throughout the film. There are many instances where the Narrator fights with how he wants to be identified. The Narrator wants nothing more than to become a strong independent guy so much so that he creates an alternate identity to better conform to the society he lives in. However, Fight Club in many ways shows how conformity in the long run gradually causes a person to lose who they are. Fight Club’s persistent focus…

Dr Heidegger invited four of his elderly friends over including Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and Widow Wycherley to his rather eerie study. All of them have used up their fortunes, and now they are unhappy. The three men used to fight over Widow Wycherly when they were younger, it was said to be that Widow was very beautiful when younger. When they guests arrives at Dr. Heidegger's house, they go to his study. His creepy study contains, among other things, a bust of…