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Fight Club a ‘devastating critique of American materialist, consumer culture’, or a film about ‘the monstrous thrill of violence and the fragility of men’? (Rombes: 1999).
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Richard Adams Takeaway Examination, March 2005 305CMC Film Studies Is Fight Club a 'devastating critique of American materialist, consumer culture', or a film about 'the monstrous thrill of violence and the fragility of men'? (Rombes: 1999). It is easy to understand how and why many who view Fight Club (Fincher, 1999) would argue that is in essence a critique of post modern consumer culture within America or indeed the western world. After all we are faced with Character(s) Jack (Edward Norton) who seems to gain no cultural sustenance from the world in which he inhabits. More over it seems to do him harm in the form of insomnia. This coupled with his obsession with Ikea and material goods leads to the creation of Tyler (Brad Pit). Whose apparent goal is the destruction of the capitalist system? The film seems littered with examples of anti consumer, anti capitalist motifs. The blowing up of credit card...
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