“I felt like destroying something beautiful…..”

• WHAT does he destroy? WHY?

• WHAT is this moment of rage an ‘enigma clue’ (Roland Barthes) to later on in the narrative?

Feedback“Tyler comes to represent the unleashed

fountain of Jack’s rage at his own predicament and at the World that has consigned him to it”

(Thomas Wartenburg – 2013) “I felt like destroying something beautiful…..”

“He recognizes that his freedom is somehow connected to the end of capitalism”

(John McCullough – 2004)

Alexander Walker (1999)“It promotes pain and suffering as the virtues of the

strongest.”

Title:‘Fight Club’ –

Nietzsche and the ‘near life experience’

Friday 6th May 2016

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section C: Single Film – Close Critical Study

(30 Marks)

“The nervousness over screen violence was at a renewed high in the wake of the shootings atColumbine High School, and this must have seemed like the worst possible time to release a film in which an army of alienated men, led by Brad Pitt’s charismatic Tyler Durden, an übermensch in a red leather jacket, engage in bare-knuckle brawls, antisocial vandalism and outright revolutionary terrorism.”

Zeitgeist

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/movies/homevideo/08lim.html?_r=0

Review writing

“They discover they are exhilarated by this brute interaction” –

Sight and Sound (Amy Taubin – 1999)

Jack - “Repressed rage”

https://vimeo.com/11064775

YOU MUST watch the scene above from the link above (OR go to 1:33:34 into the text) and analyse the following:

Nietzsche –

HOW is this ideology (Left) represented in the scene?

“Stop trying to control everything and JUST LET GO!”

"Fight Club" appears threatening to some because it seems to challenge the safety of the modern world.”

Review writing Almar Haflidason (2000)

Tyler, cradling Jack, declares triumphantly:

“We just had a near life experience!”

Further reading on this topic:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=J18_iIjqK7MC&pg=PA53&dq=fight+club+near+life+experience&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lVBUVYP9FMKR7AbOgoCIDA&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=fight%20club%20near%20life%20experience&f=false

http://www.jademyst.com/essays/11.html