FM4 - Sec C

1. “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?

2. 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.”

3. 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)

5. “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

6. “They discover they are exhilarated by this brute interaction” –
Sight and Sound (Amy Taubin – 1999)
Jack - “Repressed rage”

7. 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?

8. “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)

9. Tyler, cradling Jack, declares triumphantly:
“We just had a near life experience!”

10. 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