In the backwards sense that I carry out my life, I just watched Fight Club for the first time. I didn't know all that much about it, except the first rule of Fight Club (do I even have to say it?) Then a couple of quotes came up in a blog about Culture, Media and Everyday Life - particularly Tyler Durden's observations about our consumer lifestyle and how it consumes us (sorry, couldn't resist the pun!) -so I figured I should see it. Surprise of surprises, I actually enjoyed it - I guess I was expecting it to be a whole lot more masculine that it was (though that's not to say it wasn't...) And the twist? Yeah, I knew about it, but I'd forgotten until it happened, and I was all OMFG!Brilliant.
Narrator: I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person?
Tyler Durden: Do you know what a duvee is?
Narrator: It's a comforter...
Tyler Durden: It's a blanket. Just a blanket. Now why do guys like you and me know what a duvee is? Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then?
Narrator: ...Consumers?
Tyler Durden: Right. We are consumers. We're the bi-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.
Tyler Durden: Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
Tyler Durden: The things you own end up owning you.
Tyler Durden: Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Tyler Durden: You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
Narrator: I know it seems like I have more than one side sometimes...
Marla Singer: More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
I love this scene:
Check out this amusing comic strip summary of the film. It tells you what happens, so don't read unless you've seen, or want to know.
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JAG
2 comments:
If you like the movie, you'll love the book.
And don't you dare listen to du'Loque about Palahniuk. He's awesome.
And by the way, that comic strip is hilarious. I'd use it as my desktop background if it would fit.
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