Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The first movie that I thought of was Fight Club.  It portrays multiple world views throughout the movie.  It starts out with a man who lives in the culture created for him.  He buys everything for his apartment that he wants and is kind of a chick.  When he meets Brad Pitt, everything changes.  He completely changes his lifestyle and the way he sees the world.  He lives in an old run down house that always floods.  They make and sell soap made from human fat that they steal from liposuction dumpsters.  Together they form a fight club that lets men do what they want to.  The point is that the world has become so femanized that men are expected to act like it.  I agree that the world is being femanized but the movie takes it to the extreme to get the point across. 
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  1. timmerOctober 1, 2009 at 1:52 PM

    I love Fight Club. I think taking the point to the extreme is sort of the goal of the film: sort of an over-the-top satirical view of the world. Although, I would disagree with you about the 'feminization' point: It seems more to me a commentary on the world that is created by advertising...an empty, homogenized world where individualism is achieved in products, but lacks real meaning. Our main character finds meaning in his 'fight club' which soon gets out of hand.

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  2. ZoeteweyOctober 3, 2009 at 5:23 PM

    I think you've both missed the point. Like timmer said, Fight Club is a very anti-corporation, anti-consumer film, but I also think westin is on to something here.

    Overall, fight club, to me me at least, seems to be story about the dissatisfied, modern America. The characters, who are unhappy with themselves, claim to be children raised only by women and that has been reduced to a generation of spectators. They are dissatisfied with the state of masculinity in the world. To sum it up, look at the narrator's "ikea nesting syndrome"... and his desire to tear it all down.

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  3. timmerOctober 5, 2009 at 6:38 AM

    Yeah, I forgot about the whole "Ikea nesting instinct" segment....good stuff Jonny

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  4. TJ SmithOctober 5, 2009 at 7:30 PM

    I have never seen this movie but I feel like what Timmer said is very evident in our world in that advertising is everywhere especially in the US. I believe finding our meaning in ourselves and materialstic things will never satisfy us, but that is what our world wants us to believe. Which is very evident in a lot of movies.

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