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The movie Fight Club, compared to the late 20th century, made a great achievement in the film industry, and significantly depicted the social system of the late 20th century. ...
At heart, Fight Club is really a dark parody about consumerist discontent. First of all Fight Club was one of the most direct depictions of modern society. We can visualize the clear criticisms of the movie from the words of Jamey Hughton, “ ‘Fight Club’ is the kind of breathless experience that chews you up, spits you out, and leaves your senses jaded and disorientated with exhilaration.” Secondly, Fight Club was a real evolution of the modern ideals, the emergence of modern atomized individuals and consequently urban alienation. ... Critic Gary Crowdus says it best by writing, “Fight Club members have become so physically impassive, so emotionally anesthetized, and so spiritually numb, that it takes a broken nose, a split lip, or a few cracked ribs to reawaken their deadened nervous systems and to provide them with a meaningful sense of male identity” (46). ... (Filmvalues)
With the case of Bob, an overly obese man with gigantic breasts, who is an ex champion bodybuilder, Fincher is pointing out the change of the modern male from the old powerful violent man to the castrated male who is following the Christian teaching and avoiding fight. The struggle of Bob to be a member of Fight Club was the struggle of man living in a sterile, minimum wage existence dictated by long periods of peace, boring repetitive work, low wages, and an increasingly independent woman. ... Critic Ed Gonzalez said it best when he wrote, “Fight Club, in all it’s visceral and intertextual beauty is a great moral comment on the way modern day psyches have been deconstructed by external forces like the media and corporate greed.
Approximate Word count = 1375
Approximate Pages = 5.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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