2006-08-14 18:40:14 · 12 answers · asked by Ernando 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Wikipedia can explain it in fewer words than I.
On the DVD commentary, Edward Norton points out that there are a number of parallels between Nietzschian philosophy and Fight Club. These include themes such as the death of God, trying to find meaning in life through destroying old values and creating new ones, master morality vs. slave morality, the overman, and, of course, the will to power.
The process of fighting oneself and fighting others relates to the will to power--which, while a theory of everything, involves the collision of forces and the success of the stronger. Males in the film find a fight club so appealing because to them, it is a cure to the loneliness inherent in consumer capitalism. The fight club offers white collar office workers something their typical jobs cannot. Winning or losing a fight does not matter because extreme pleasure or pain makes the male fighter feel strong and alive. Even in defeat one has extended oneself.
The Narrator represents slave morality whereas Tyler represents master morality. The Narrator taking control over himself--destroying himself in order to create himself and finally asserting himself over Tyler--represents the move to overman.
Tyler explains Nietzsche's concept of God's death to the narrator: the question of God's existence (whether it is true or not) is an unimportant answer. The question of God's existence is irrelevant.
2006-08-14 19:59:35 · answer #1 · answered by monkeyundead 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The point of the movie was that men, in general were getting "soft" because of the age we're living in. And they were drifting away from the "animals" nature intended them to be. So in Fight Club they found a way to bring back the men to their roots, their bloody and animal-like selves as they were ment to be. Not as an exercise in involution, but as a kind of exorcism out of the cultural bounds and tehnical addiction of the modern age.
2006-08-14 18:51:16 · answer #2 · answered by impossibilityoftruth 3 · 3⤊ 5⤋
Its about letting go and living free. Here's a fun quote: "The things you own end up owning you."
2013-12-03 19:30:54 · answer #3 · answered by Joe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows it was a pretty twisted movie that took me three times watching it to really understand it.
2006-08-14 18:43:17 · answer #4 · answered by lindsay_freas 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Club Moral
2017-03-01 11:26:21 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be self aware of what you are doing to the world around us, because if you dont pay attention, we are our own worst enemy.
2006-08-14 18:48:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
To never kick your own a$$.
(actually I really don't know...I've only seen it all once [parts of it a couple more times]...I thought I was the only one that didn't fully get it)
2006-08-14 18:51:48 · answer #7 · answered by just me 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
mayb u dont know some1 as good as u thought? or dont trust any1, not even ur 'friends'? or mayb it just didnt hve 1. it was just a good movie.
2006-08-14 18:46:01 · answer #8 · answered by big foot 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to see Brad Pitt with his shirt off so his nipples are expossed?
2006-08-14 18:45:29 · answer #9 · answered by Cops 1 · 5⤊ 2⤋
split-personalities,dr.Jekyl Mr.Hyde,everyone in the movie had one,a split personality.Peace!!
2006-08-14 18:49:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋