Film Critique on Fight Club

I recently watched Fight Club, with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. I enjoyed the movie a lot and thought it was extremely interested and captivating. I think that these feelings came mostly from the theme and extraordinary acting.

The theme of the movie was about the little guy in life. For example, the city workers, garbage men, people who clean the sewers, and so on. It is about how the little guys in life do all the dirty work that the important and well-known people don't even think once about doing or who does it. An example of this theme is when Brad Pitt and other people who are recruited by him, capture the chief of police and threaten him to call of the search for people who have been causing all the mischief that has been currently happening around the city. The people are the ones causing the mischief and mayhem. Pitt explains to the chief of police that the people causing all this are the little people whoall the powerful people step on and overlook. The little people do everything and since they do pretty much everything, without them, everything would fall apart. So Pitt basically says do not mess with us.

Another theme is following your dream and to not let anything get in the way of it. For example, in the movie, Brad Pitt takes the store owner of a store out back into the alley way and makes it seem as if he is going to kill him, but he doesn't. Instead, he asks about his life and asks why he did not become the profession he wanted to be. So, Brad Pitt threatens to come back and kill the store owner if he does try to become what he had wanted to be.

The last theme is mindless consumerism. An example of this is when Edward Norton spends his all of his time looking through magazines searchging for the right couch and other things to go with it, for example. And his house ends up being blown up. It shows the mindless consumerism of people these days in society. We buy all this stuff that we don't necessarily need, but to impress other people.



Another feature that made this movie brilliant was the acting. At the end of the movie you find out that Brad Pitt is just another personality in Edward Norton's head. Norton develops a slit personality, who he believes is an actual person. Pitt is everything that Norton isn't and everything that he wants to be. Norton and Pitt have to act as if they are totally different, but they also have to bond. Overall, i think that the acting was just outstanding, especially having to deal with faking a split personality.

Ideas for Research

An idea I would like to research is a comparison of Japanese and American monsters. Godzilla vs King Kong. Compare the destruction, how the plots form, how the people view the monsters, like how in the most recent king kong, they made him seem not as bad, even made you favor his side against his capturer.

Controversial Issues In Film and Society

Are violent games making kids who play these games violent?
It seems that most of the games coming out are pretty violent. I think that they do make some kids violent - to some extent. For me, they don't really make me violent and they don't really affect me. I just play the games and don't really take it to mind or try to reenact the game like some kids seem to do. However, when kids play these games at such a young age, they do not get a sense of real reality. As an example, a person gets shot in the game, your health either comes back, you can pick up health, or you can just restart and everything is okay. Kids are becoming desensitized.






Gay Marriage

It has also occurred to me that gay marriage has become an issue in society and has been reflected in film. For example, in Chuck and Larry, the movie is not just a comedy but also includes a viewpoint of how people suddenly change when they find out that you are gay. Chuck and Larry become isolated at first from everyone who used to be their best friends. But at the end, they are embraced and invokes that this is what society needs to do - embrace diversity because they are just like you and me.