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Fight Club - do i need to say more?
A spiritual candy for times you feel a bit too materialistic.

YOU ARE NOT THE MOVIES YOU BUY!!!
Have you felt that you do your job only because you have to pay the bills, and even maybe learned to enjoy it, but feel you are not following your purpose, that is not really what you imagined you would had end up doing with your life? Have you felt you have adopted rules in your job and life that maybe you don't truly understand or believe, or work for yourself on an emotional level?
Have you felt your company treats you like a number? Have you felt you've been educated by marketers and don't feel satisfied by what you buy, the relationships you get
Involved and ultimately with yourself? Have you felt you're made up by a bunch of labels and that you are much more, but no one cares to find out. Even you feel more related to the labels, than the transcending self?
Have you felt this frantic lifestyle of compulsive buying, work frenzy & competition is going to kill as all, or at least fed you up? And finally, have you wandered if you can jump off this train, move to a beach and paint shells?

This movie has several layers, as all complex tales do. Some will enjoy or criticize the outer layer and its violence. Others will understand that the violence is never used for its own sake (only on one occasion, to make the point the movie is making no points).

Fight Club is a very particular way in which a very particular man with this very common problem. He suffers alienation from other humans and his own humanity and seeks and finds a temporary fix and steps up to freedom. It is not educational material. It is not making a statement about how everyone that feels detached from our kind and unhappy on the cities should solve his/her problem. This said to address the stupid arguments based in the notion that movies have a moral responsibility to educate adults on their choices.

It is just a fable of a man's ego and superego, that interact and live a life together until the man is able to become whole. And his very personal solution to an existential issue many of us are troubled by.
Those two characters appear when we fail. One is the image of what we should be and against which we contrast and define failure. The other one are us all, with all our human flaws and under construction state.

Furthermore, the character finds that love rather than violence is the fix he wants.

He starts off this journey as a man with dysfunctional emotional state that prevents him from enjoying one night of sleep, have friends or relate sanely to the opposite sex. As a relief, at the start he tries to reach people at support groups. It works for a while.

Then he finds Fight Club.
Violence is clearly agreed and enjoyed mutually in the movie without any animosity but on the contrary with appreciation, which is a very different portrait. Furthermore is cathartic for the men involved.
If you want to guess a message about it, you could said it portraits how sad is that men have to hit each other to touch each other, in a culture of chauvinism, homophobia and sexual harassment lawsuits, where human contact has seriously dwindled to an unhealthy level.
Moreover, the city as a production machine has become so sterile, so ordered, so conditioning that chaotic behavior could become very relaxing and needed.

Acts that reunite as with more basic instincts create some balance. We men were hunters for thousands of years and now are segregated to cubicles, prohibited to even scream or look instintively at a female.

Besides violence, his path towards liberation has the mix of many elements of Taoism and Zen devices. Furthermore, The mayhem activities resemble somewhat the poetic terrorism found in anarchist writer Hakim Bey's essays. Surprise people to enlighten by shock. They might start to believe.

When Tyler drags the clerk outside the mini market, and threatens to kill him unless he pursues his dream is a very over the top, but creative way of rekindle passion in a man's life, clearly beaten, broken and numb.

All of them methods are over the top. And you have to respect who considers them extreme. But they are definitely very entertaining, smart and liberating for those who want to see related methods, that are "out of the box". And again, get what you pay on a movie for: To live things you may not live on reality. On these stretches to the extreme is when our vices become more visible, sometimes.

Hitting bottom is a way of loosing the fear that holds the self together. It is the fear of failure or harm. Sometimes the risk of the exercise is much, but the desire to be free is the strongest of all.

Our material possessions hold together our selves, as well. Loosing them is a way of facing and waste that fear.

The same of machismo and the image that we men need to hold that we cannot loose a fight without feeling devalued. Setting yourself to loose a fight is very effective, besides dangerous and eccentric, way of discarding that fear.

Staying in the moment, even on the most agonizing moments hardens your skin enough to stop dodging reality, the eternal now ever, with every device imaginable: food, tv and of course buying stuff you don't need.
Tyler puts Jack through these and other tests to awaken him.
But Tyler doesn't stops there, he wants to awaken society.

All weaved together by hip techno music, MTV video esthetics and steps towards enlightenment. Among it, the realization that a fragmented being cannot truly love. The desire for Marla and his inability to let go of the past, is another pressure point on Jack pushing him towards freedom.
Tyler represents a double edge sword savior or guru. On one side, the desire to be frenetic and push himself to the edge to conquer limitations, and also all he desired to be as a man.

To accept truly himself, and use all his energy as a united being he has to let go of this figure. Keep what learn and dump the rest and find a wise middle where he is comfortable at.

The rant that Tyler delivers to the fight club, encapsulates some of the concerns the movie wants to bring the audience to brood upon. Living lives without meaning, in mechanic jobs we hate, to buy stuff conditioned by the media to, but that we really don't truly need. We've become consumer droids. Space monkeys conditioned to press buttons towards oblivion. The media offers its carrot: fame, fortune, and every
Ego-booster conceivable. And if the entanglement is rooted on the ego logic, ego perception and egotistic behavior it only messes up the problem further.

The movie doesn't wrap up nicely the answers to these questions, and throws them on your lap.

This movie left me with the strong impression of watching one of the most aggressive criticisms towards the dangers of excessive consumerism, of my generation.

It is difficult to believe it was made by the director of Seven and two of the most prominent actors of our generation who put their necks on the line to express these concerns.

Bravo!!








Cult Hit
Definately one of the biggest Cult Hits in recent years. "Fight Club" tells the story of a man trying to hit rock bottom and stripping down everything along the way. Everything comes together in a surprising ending that will leave you shocked and surprised.

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