Defending Tyler Durten

Kayley 2022-04-19 09:01:04

Most of the time it's called "Fight Club," which sounds like a sports movie. I think "fight club" is more appropriate. A movie you can't stop watching once you start watching it because it's so captivating! ! You can put aside the content related to philosophical speculation and just fully appreciate the lens and the picture. After watching it once, I couldn't help but watch it again from the beginning -______-. When I watched it again, I found that Tyler had flashed by in a few shots before he officially met Jack.

If you grew up on the road that everyone thinks you should take, and now you are repeating work every day without knowing why; if your life seems to be free of troubles and flaws, but it makes you suffocate in despair; if you try to do your best The way to make the environment wrap itself safely, toss on the furniture and even feel enslaved by them, then you need someone to save you at this time - he is Tyler Durten. He's handsome and wild, he's dangerous but wise and charming, he spurns everything you hold dear, everything he says seems irrational yet fascinating, and everything he does impresses you She smacked her tongue but couldn't help admiring her secretly. Just such a person, he appeared at the right time to take you out of the prison of civilized life. His wisdom shreds the glitzy appearance of this world and shows you the pale inside naked.

"Till you have lost everything, you're free to do anything" is one of Tyler's philosophies. abandon! A regular job, a comfortable apartment, a moral behavior, everything this society thinks you should have, but you don't know why you should have it, throw it all away~~ Return to a free and primitive original person. So how do we experience our own existence? Tyler's approach is to destroy. First destroy yourself, and then destroy the society. fight! Feel the real pleasure of pain and bleeding. Blow up the building where everyone's credit history is stored, set everything to zero, and free everyone from the cage of civilization

It becomes difficult to think about the foundations of our existence under the wraps of modern civilization. I once thought when I lost my wallet, if everything that proves "I am me" disappears in an instant - ID card, credit card, student ID card... - then how can I prove my existence? How can I prove that I am an individual who has lived once in this world? Does the so-called civilization improve our quality of life or make people become slaves of civilization and lose their freedom to be human? Have we become what Thoreau called "tools of tools"?

Destruction is certainly not the only way to change the status quo, nor the best way, but Tyler saw the problem and made the move. We all don't want to be like the sad person in the movie who is determined to realize his dream with a gun to his head, so let's take action! Like Cui Yongyuan and the others, they went to the Long March and "tortured" themselves with the harsh natural environment and hard travel, which is a good way.

At the end of the film, we know that Tyler is actually Jack himself, and he finally can't stand that kind of crazy behavior and kills Tyler. Tyler is dead, but can be resurrected at any time, the only one who can save us is ourselves.

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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.