Film Critic

Shane 2022-03-22 09:01:04

The director of "Fight Club" David Fincher is one of the prominent Hollywood film directors. He was first known as Madonna's queen MTV director. From the 1980s to the 1990s, he was filming MTV for Madonna. With the help of MTV shooting and digital technology, Finch made the movie better or worse. The audience may feel that his expression is not so "cinematic" but more "MTV-like". The reason for saying this is because Finch designed the story structure of the whole film to be more complicated, and the voice-over used from beginning to end uses the first-person narrator of "I" to tell the story. Fight Club, this film is a kind of in-depth study of people's attitude towards material pursuits and spiritual pursuits. Jack, a senior white-collar worker, has a stable and high-income job, a good apartment, and a variety of expensive housewares ( A coffee table in the shape of yin and yang, a whole group of personal coffee cups, a fixed bicycle at home, a high-grade sofa with green stripes, etc.) The pursuit of luxury, it can be said that the material pursuit has reached the enjoyment of the upper-class living standard, and Jack enjoys a high-quality material life. Faced with the tasks assigned by his boss, he showed all kinds of dissatisfaction. He made small moves behind his boss. What bothered Jack the most was that he could not fall asleep. For six months, he could not sleep peacefully all night. Feeling that he must seek relief, seek spiritual sustenance. The film begins with a flashback technique, starting with the ending part, and using the ending highlights to instantly catch the viewer's attention. The film uses Mara interspersed with Jack's life as a sideline, and Jack's way of seeking spiritual relief is used as the main line to tell the whole story. Jack was able to find spiritual sustenance in activities such as lymphoma, tuberculosis, and testicular cancer, and obtained a night of peace through the activities, but the little satisfaction was destroyed by the arrival of Mara, who was also a fake patient seeking the joy of life. In fact, this is not a reflection of life. When people are sinking, it is like a sluggish lifestyle to gain happiness, which is no different from taking drugs. With the help of drugs, there is a short-term pleasure. When the strength of drugs is over, the face is undoubtedly greater at this time. Emptiness and loneliness require drugs and pleasure, but this unhealthy way will bring more harm to yourself. Jack comforts his empty heart with the painful experience of the dying patient. The more painful others are, the more they cry, the more they can touch Jack's soul with their most real pain. Jack's accumulation is unbearable. But there is no way to vent the negative emotions. Through the touch and guidance between emotions, it is possible to vent the pressured emotions a little, and get a short period of relaxation, but this way of venting In essence, it is very wrong. It can be said that human suffering is used to obtain one's own happiness. At the beginning, it violated the moral bottom line. This may be more than drugs. You guessed it, the pain in the world, the pain that occurs around you, how can there be so many painful experiences, and when you feel these self-righteousness How can you find greater pain to make yourself happy when you’re suffering? This is actually what caused Jack to bring about a major and irreversible disaster, but you didn’t know it at all. You think you can’t find it. , I will create pain and disaster by myself. This is not a portrayal of reality. You perish, you fall, but you feel good about yourself, but you don’t know the bad habits. The bad things give yourself a "baptism" from the inside out, but you never know how to bring yourself. How much harm is coming, how much negative impact it will bring to others and even society. Jack blew up his apartment. Of course, this was learned later. In Jack's own words, he meant to abandon material constraints and pursue the truest self. Jack founded a fight club. A group of men were cruel to their bodies. Fighting, feeling the extreme pain of the physical body, and pouring the pain that is suppressed in my heart, under the blow of the physical body in the fighting, from the 1/2 page of the most real physical pain, it tastes the unfairness in life (status, Some people can be senior officials, executives, but they are waiters themselves Cleaners and other underground status, etc.), they will vent their inner resentment in the fight, and feel the greatest degree of twisting in the flesh, great destruction, incomparable pain, in this pain, on the contrary, they are What I feel from the pain is happiness, lightness, and joy, and I am meeting for the next fight. There are too many rules and regulations in real life. People living in it must follow the principles and systems. This is the rules of the game. There are unfairness and unfairness, but you want to continue the game. You must abide by the principles, go against your own wishes, and put everything Her negative emotions are hidden and buried in her heart, so that she can seek the material life she pursues, but spiritually, she is destroying herself step by step. Giving up material, refusing to be restrained, restoring the self, and enjoying freedom, this is actually the fundamental reason for the rapid growth of the fight club. Jack blew up his apartment and threatened his boss as the most powerful outbreak and revenge for himself after being mentally suppressed. People who have been trained from the fight club have long abandoned human nature and beastified themselves. Originally, people are human because they know what they can do and what they don’t do, but they can only embody the ugly human nature. one side. They felt pain again and again in the fight. Pain and hatred have taken over all of their hearts. They have forgotten the feeling of pain, but instead they have seen that they have no fear of pain, the supreme power brought to them, and their fearlessness has brought their destruction. Success after time, the bar owner Lu's helplessly gave up his basement. Jack’s boss accepted Jack’s proposal to pay his salary without going to work. They were completely fearless. They enjoyed the fun of destruction, and they completely abandoned it. To the good side of human nature. Bob's death can be said to be a major turning point in the story. Jack seemed to be awakened from the loss of Bob's death. When he looked at the people around him again, he found that they had already buried their own kindness. There is no bottom, they just want to destroy. Jack ran around trying to prevent the disaster from happening, but he found that there were people in the fight club everywhere, and it was no longer a situation that anyone could control. Jack raised his gun and killed himself. The other side of Ted disappeared. Jack and Mara stood in front of the window, watching the disaster they caused but couldn't save them, and watched the tall buildings collapse. In the film, Mara has been interspersed with Jack’s life. Jack loves Mara. Part of the reason Jack wants to save the disaster is that he does not want Mara to die. Mara appears in Jack’s life from time to time. When Jack is troubled by sleep, Mara comes out. Now in Jack’s cancer class, when Jack is destroying, Mara appears on Jack’s bed when the disaster strikes , Mara and Jack watched the collapse of the building together. Mara is like a mirror in Jack's life, witnessing Jack's changes through Mara. The collapse of the building left only the good Jack, Ted disappeared, but the disaster still happened, the good Jack, the evil incarnation of Ted, the good Jack left, but only the good Jack can’t stop the disaster. occur. This kind of ending can be said to be profound. Do you want to say that a person who is only kind is imperfect, and it will cause disasters; or the mirror-like Mara, we should always look at ourselves and eliminate hidden dangers in the future; or just like Jack Like Mara, watching the disaster come, the building collapses, but it is regarded as a miraculous magnificent beauty. We are content with fate and don't struggle, and enjoy everything that life brings. That's it, that's it, how it is, life is so colorful, we have to appreciate ourselves, but we must be a complete selves.

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Fight Club quotes

  • Narrator: [19:14] You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?

  • Narrator: [19:34] This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.