Through such societal influeces, you’re constantly told how to behave, what to buy, how you should look, how you should think, what you should aspire to be. Fight Club is very concerned with American consumerism, marketing, and corporatization, and how those things strip us of our individuality. To understand the “why” we have to zoom out from the human level. But all of that is only a means to an end. The journey is bonkers, of course, because exaggeration and dramatization can often capture emotions and parts of reality better than realism. On the human level, it’s the journey from stagnation to rebirth. Catharsis to relief.Īnd that’s the story of Fight Club.
In other words-it’s easy to put a lot of pressure on yourself. And when you try to explain a beloved movie or book or whatever to other people, you hope you do so in a way that makes them feel the way you feel about it.
But, all the same, Fight Club‘s a movie that’s been really important to me. I’ve never had a split personality, much less any personality that’s looked like or acted like Brad Pitt. Which might be a weird thing to say about Fight Club. Honestly, this is one of those articles that you kind of avoid because it feels too personal.
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