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A 3 pages essay that analyzes the film "Fight Club" (1999, directed by David Fincher) which focuses on the life of "Jack," a nameless drone stuck in the cogs of the corporate machinery that drives the economies of Western society. Jack is plagued by insomnia and only finds release and sleep after purging himself of emotions through cathartic release at group support meetings for various cancer and disease victims. Basically, the film answers two questions: How does Jack go from being a feminized victim of corporate America to being a counter-culture revolutionary leader? Why does this change occur? Bibliography lists 1 source.
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and only finds release and sleep after purging himself of emotions through cathartic release at group support meetings for various cancer and disease victims. Basically, the film answers two questions:
How does Jack go from being a feminized victim of corporate America to being a counter-culture revolutionary leader? Why does this change occur? The "how" revolves around the fact
that Jack has Dissociative Identity Disorder, that is, multiple personality disorder. He is "Jack," but he is also "Tyler Durden," the man who organizes the Fight Club and then Project
Mayhem. In the Fight Club, men achieve the same sense of release that Jack found at the group meetings, but they find it through inflicting and experiencing pain. The Fight
Club phenomenon spreads and evolves into Project Mayhem, which involves a plot to bringing down the social structure that dehumanizes and feminizes men by destroying the buildings of the financial
district and their records. The plan is "to blow up these credit card headquarters and the TRW building" (Uhis). The police officer asks why these particular buildings have been targeted
for destruction by his movement and Jack explains, "You are not your job, you are not how much money you have in the bank" (Uhis). The "why" of the
film is much more complicated than the "how." On the day that Tyler emerges from Jacks subconscious, the airline loses Jacks luggage and his apartment building explodes, destroying all of
his possessions. The first scenes in the film establish that his possessions are basically all Jack has for defining his life. Through Tyler, Jack is able to express everything that
he previously kept bottled up inside him. Tyler looks the way that Jack wants to look, acts how Jack wished he acted. Tyler is a forceful, charismatic and very masculine
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