The truth is that Fight Club is a novel and a movie about men, masculinity, and the ideal male. Whowver wants to disagree with can, but know that you are wrong.
Fight Club is meant for guys. Here's a story from my own boarding school experience. So,before we even knew the movie existed (I say movie because books were only read that were required by our teachers) my friends and I would havea type of fight club. Usually it would be just a few people, but sometimes there would be 15 of us. We would play really loud music, get in a circle, pick two guys to go in, watch them battle until there was a victor, and repeat. We did this because we were boys and like beating eachother up.
This movie appealed to us, because we had our own fight club, and it appeals to every other guy because it's guys geeting trashed. While the names might of been different, we used to call it battle royal, but that's not the point, I'm sure there were other variations of fight club out there.
Fight club represents the internal struggle one man has with himself.
Edward Norton plays the average guy. There is nothing special about him, he is simple, plain, boring, and above all the embodiment of the typical average American male.
Brad Pitt play the role of the American ideal. He is gorgeous, desired, well-spoken, confident, flawless, stylish, and a flat out rock-star. Pitt is wahat a masculine male should be. This applys to every guy.
Norton is so obsessed with wanting to be this ideal, that he develops a persona, Pitt, that takes on a life of his own. He is so blinded by this ideal that he does not see that it is not possible for him to reach.
He has to give up wanting to be Pitt before he can take control of his own life.
We ive in a society where we strive for perfection. Those who work hard enough or is given the oppurtunity to, reaches that will succeed at that goal.
No one wants to settle for being average. The average American public is a sad, gross sight.
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