Apollonianism
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I choose Fight Club as my topic, because I am so familiar with it. Fight Club was the first movie shocked me deeply.
Jack, Tyler and Marla are the main characters of Fight Club, a white-collar worker, a soap manufacturer, and a female smoker who makes a living by sale the clothes she steal off from washing machine. Jack is an insomniac, he find the cancer patients meeting can make him go sleep. Therefore, he is addictive for those different kinds of meeting, same as Marla. One time, when Jack went on errands, he meets with Tyler. When he came back to home, he found his home was exploded. Therefore, he calls Tyler and lives with him. Things change at that night; they fight with each other and feel unbelievable exhilarating. More and more people join their fighting and make a club called Fight Club. As Fight Club developed, Tyler begins to ask those members to destroy everything in society. Jack tries to stop him, but finally he found Tyler and he is the same person. He can only keep stopping the plan he made.
Axiology
Maybe you feel David Fincher (the director) is a ramstam person. In this movie which full of despair, violence and symbolism, he keeps showing his predilection about “black”: The black background, the black theme and the black humor. The events of this story are shown in a flashback. Tyler and Jack have totally different personality. However, Tyler, this crazy man, is the person that Jack wants to be. He creates Tyler. Why Jack want to be Tyler? Why he change himself from a hylicist to an anti hylicist, from this end to another end? The answer is easy, end is created by end.
In the beginning of the movie, people can saw a group of male testicle cancer patients cry together like women. Cry for the apparatus which present their dignity as a man. Jacks join make this meeting symbolic. Castration is not just physiological, but also psychological. As a man, the castration probably is the most miserable thing. However, as the modern people as Jack, the “castration” of mentality is the most miserable thing. They become the outsiders who fool around the fear and torpor.
Jack cannot break this kind of fear and torpor, he can only create a new one to cover the original one, use new axiology to cover the old axiology, us nothing to cover everything. These processes all need a ceremonial, which is violence.
Violence
As the society and economy developed, the relationship between people and society is more and more complex. More and more people have a distrust of government. Therefore, violence becomes the main way to show the young generations discontent
in movie. For the people who join the Fight Club, Fight Club can be used instead of other club such as cancer patients meeting. For those people who stay at the same position as Jack, for those people who feel despairing and dejected, fighting is the best way to forget these suffer. They can forget their lonely and find their self-confidence back.
As more and more people join Fight Club, Tyler begins to develop physical violence to mental violence. He knows every members thinking so that he becomes