Fight Club
The 1999 feature movie, Fight Club, directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton seemed as if the entire film was dedicated to the phenomenon of antisocial behavior. This exploration into the mind of an apparently normal man demonstrated the significance and the trials of an individual dealing with the pressures of society. The purpose of this essay is to explain antisocial behavior as it is represented within this movie. Specifically, I will describe the climactic last scene of the movie as the culmination of this social psychological phenomenon which entails rebelling against society and finding one's own individual voice.
This story centers around an anonymous individual, who, through a series of strange and dreamlike events, becomes "associated" with a more rebellious and inspiring character named Tyler. Throughout the movie, Tyler and the narrator become closer and begin to share in an unique hobby of fighting one another, and their friends, in a secret fight club. As the story continues to build, fight club is the centerpiece around a more rebellious and large-scale revolutionary mindset. Tyler leads the narrator into more daring and risky situations. Ultimately Tyler's dream of destroying the financial industries using explosives culminates in the scene of interests.
In this last scene of the movie, the narrator realizes that he is actually a split personality of Tyler and all of their actions together were nothing more than his imagination. This occurs only after the narrator attempts to kill himself and blow off his head. He only harms himself yet Tyler is killed by a suicide-homicide psychological twist. The narrator is not mortally wounded and lives as the explosives burn through the targeted enemy buildings. In this final scene, it is clearly evident that the pressures of society...
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