Fight Club
What are examples of post modern themes in the movie Fight Club?
i have to write an essay on post modern themes that are depicted in fight club. The themes that i want to talk about are isolation, existentialism and the idea that there is no one version/ truth. I need lots of examples for each one including quotes if possible. Thanks!
"You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake. You are not special."
Drones Tyler Durst over a megaphone to his growing cult of socially dissatisfied and frustrated followers.
The major theme of that movie (imo) was the rejection of socially acceptable and sanitized comforts. In fact the revulsion of those norms. Like a obese man overstuffed on artificial sweetener chuck palahniuk's characters seemed to be vomiting up years of blindly digested dogma.
Comforts such as Ikea furniture, Starbucks coffee or even central AC became a superficial tomb that drove his main character so deep into solitude and loneliness that he eventually suffered a full multiple personality schizophrenic break with reality. This break manifested in the alter ego character who shamelessly and un-apologetically destroyed the walls of that tomb figuratively and literally. Interestingly the alter ego was not satisfied with destroying his own walls of domestic melancholy. And began recruiting followers to eventually take their solution international.
Existensialism is (i think) the study of one's self from a conceptually abstract yet completely internal point of view. A certain dignity and wisdom may be discovered by such a journey. The excesses of modern life seemingly threaten the awareness that such a thing even exists by stuffing the human ego with illusions and baseless pointless information.
Priorities such as: who won the game, does my belt match my shoes, what country is this wine from - have taken presedence over the great philisophical challenges of our time. Fight Club to me indicates this as a tragedy and follows the Thoreau prescription for finding your center. Rejecting conveniences and consumer dogma... Simplify, simplify, etc..
I scanned through the script to find choice quotes..
You may decide for yourself what is relevant among them:
Ed:
When people think you're dying,
they listen to you instead of...
Marla:
Instead of waiting for their turn to speak.
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Ed:
I couldn't sleep.
With insomnia, nothing's real.
Everything's far away.
Everything's a copy of a copy
of a copy.
When deep space exploration ramps up,
it'll be the corporations that name everything.
The IBM Stellar Sphere.
The Microsoft Galaxy.
The Planet Starbucks.
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Tyler:
No fear. No distractions.
The ability to let that which does not matter
truly slide.
You are not your job.
You're not how much money
you have in the bank.
You're not the car you drive.
You're not the contents of your wallet.
You're not your fucking khakis.
You are the all-singing,
all-dancing crap of the world.
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Ed:
Every time the plane banked too sharply
on takeoff or landing,
I prayed for a crash or a midair collision.
Anything.
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Tyler:
Right. We're consumers.
We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.
Murder, crime, poverty.
These things don't concern me.
What concerns me are celebrity magazines,
television with channels,
some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine.
Viagra. Olestra.
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Ed:
When you buy furniture,
you tell yourself, that's it.
That's the last sofa I'll need.
Whatever happens,
that sofa problem is handled.
I had it all.
I had a stereo that was very decent.
A wardrobe that was getting very respectable.
I was close to being complete.
- Shit, man. Now it's all gone.
- All gone.
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Ed:
I'd be very, very careful
who you talk to about that.
Because the person who wrote that
is dangerous.
And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho
might just snap and then stalk from office to office
with an Armalite AR carbine gas-powered
semiautomatic weapon,pumping round after round
into colleagues and co-workers.
This might be someone
you've known for years.
Someone very, very close to you.
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Tyler:
Slaves with white collars.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes.
Working jobs we hate
so we can buy shit we don't need.
We're the middle children of history.
No purpose or place.
We have no Great War.
No Great Depression.
Our great war is a spiritual war.
Our great depression is our lives.
We've all been raised
on television to believe that one day we'd be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars.
But we won't.
We're slowly learning that fact.
And we're very, very pissed off.
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Tyler:
The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.
The second rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club!
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