sometimes I wonder why scars are so visable on some people and on others they are not.
I watched Fight Club today for the first time. There is a steady stream of males in my life that all answered the same way when asked what their top 5 movies of all time are. Fight Club is almost always in the top 3.
And I guess I am going to need some male mind to explain it to me. I appreciated the twists and turns, but maybe the estrogen in my blood prevented me from seeing it the same way those that are predominatly ruled by testostrone.
So I welcome some male insight into this most intriguing of films.
4 comments:
Hi anna,
I think the kicker with this film is that it explores the HUGE epidemic of no-cause-worth-fighting-for life that many american males find themsleves in. The fact is, there is a huge MAN problem in this country. Men aren't going to college anymore, (I think like 60% of college students are women) they aren't studying abroad, (just found out today, study abroad is 66% female) they aren't doing a lot of outward good, so we get... domestic violence, etc.. The thing most men end up doing is aquiring a house, a wife, blah,some kids, and then accumulating lots of toys to therefore avoid wife and kids and anything that strikes anywhere close to dangerous. I don't know if this makes any sense, but I think this movie is saying "to hell" with all that crap.. Men are made for something greater than domestication. They are made to live and die for a cause greater than themselves. The movie strikes way wide of any kind of solution, but just that it identifies the problem makes it on my "must watch" movie list..
Hey there Anna the tree. I have read most of your blog and I decided to start by replying to one of the less personal ones. I think Fight Club is a great movie, but for the same reasons you mentioned, the twists and turns. I would not say it's in my top 5 maybe my top 50. Some of my buddies tell me they like it mostly for the shocking violence. I don't rate movies on a scale of 1-5 baseball bats to the thorax so I might not be the one to answer this. I guess men are more primordial. Sex, Violence, Food... a woman can shop for shoes (stereotype i know) for hours and wonder where all the time went. That shit will drive a man nuts! On the other hand a man can sit in the woods for 6 hours waiting to kill bambi's mom and love every second. (again with the sterotypes)
Personaly, I've had it up to here with aliens,asteroids, vampires and flippin dragons! I perfer stories...that are about people... that don't kill each other. You know, just people doing people stuff, laughing, learning, f'ing up once in a while. people like me!
I am an 18 year old male currently attending university, and this is my #1 movie of all time. Almost everything the narrator (Edward Norton) talks about near the beginning of the movie I have thought at one time or another. I feel like I am part of a purposeless generation and we devoted ourselves to consuming. I love how this movie puts this out in the open for us to see. Besides this the movie is also extremely witty and the twists as you have said are great.
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