The Movie Fight Club

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I choose Fight Club as my topic, because I am so familiar with it. Fight Club was the first movie shocked me deeply.
Jack, Tyler and Marla are the main characters of Fight Club, a white-collar worker, a soap manufacturer, and a female smoker who makes a living by sale the clothes she steal off from washing machine. Jack is an insomniac, he find the cancer patients’ meeting can make him go sleep. Therefore, he is addictive for those different kinds of meeting, same as Marla. One time, when Jack went on errands, he meets with Tyler. When he came back to home, he found his home was exploded. Therefore, he calls Tyler and lives with him. Things change at that night; they fight with each other and feel unbelievable exhilarating. More and more people join their fighting and make a club called Fight Club. As Fight Club developed, Tyler begins to ask those members to destroy everything in society. Jack tries to stop him, but finally he found Tyler and he is the same person. He can only keep stopping the plan he made.
Axiology
Maybe you feel David Fincher (the director) is a ramstam person. In this movie which full of despair, violence and symbolism, he keeps showing his predilection about “black”: The black background, the black theme and the black humor. The events of this story are shown in a flashback. Tyler and Jack have totally different personality. However, Tyler, this crazy man, is the person that Jack wants to be. He creates Tyler. Why Jack want to be Tyler? Why he change ...

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