Sociology Film Review: Fight Club Fight Club was produced in 1999 and has a running time of two hours and 19 minutes. The film is narrated by a nameless hero (played by Edward Norton) who suffers from insomnia. It opens with him tied to a chair, a gun held to his head by a man named Tyler (played by Brad Pitt). The narrator speaks directly to the audience and tells how he arrived at this moment through a flashback which essentially serves as the bulk of the film, the opening scene also serving as the ending scene and setting of the film. Throughout the film, the audience learns that the hero created an alternate ego for himself (Tyler) to help him address his malaise—his boredom with his work, his home, his life—in other words, his inability to find satisfaction in the materialistic existence he has created for himself. He introduces Tyler into his life to help him emerge from his cocoon of safety. Tyler’s method is to employ violence—to start a “fight club” in which mean can beat one another in an underground boxing ring. The idea is to allow men to tap into their suppressed masculinity and take back ownership of their lives and culture. This latter point is important because it is what compels Tyler to develop fight club into a movement: the membership spreads across the country, and the members engage in guerrilla-style tactics aiming at subverting the corporatized culture that continues to dominate. A woman named Marla falls...
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Fincher, D. (1999). Fight Club. LA: Fox 2000.
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