"The First Rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club"

"The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club" I was so excited when I saw this was in the syllabus I mean come on, this was such a great film. Between the script and cast, it's hard not to love this film. I always thought Brad Pitt deserved an Oscar for his performance. I love the premise Tyler Durden puts on his new band of brothers of not giving into advertisement, corporations or even conforming to others. One scene in particular I loved was when Tyler is driving the car and the real Tyler tries to grab the steering wheel and Pitt replies "look at yourself, your fucking pathetic, when are you going to learn you can't control everything and let go?". The idea Tyler was trying to tell Norton is that things are out of his control no matter how much he tries to control them i.e. saving yourself from death even though you are going to die regardless. There are a few better points of the films take on conformity is when Brad Pitt tells Tyler "Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions" and "You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive" really gives strong rebellion to conformity because sadly, no matter where in the world you are (especially a western civilization) people are measured by what they have rather than who they are. This film so quotable and most people enjoy it for what it actual is rather than a bunch of grown men physically beating the hell out of each other. I found that the reason this film is considered to be Dystopian is because perhaps we already live in a dystopia except instead of being overrun with government officials or cyborgs, it’s perhaps we live in a metaphorical hell that we are overrun with the consumerism apocalypse. The motive for project mayhem to destroy a credit card companies building. Credit cards are at the root of all capitalistic unethical principals of overspending for with no guarantees of payback for no logical reasoning. My favorite quote in the film is “We buy things we need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like”. The abuse people put themselves through all in the effort to somehow alter or force a change in their social or economic rankings in society and are willing to drown themselves in debt. Tyler sees this as hell and pointless which is why he tries to tell his army of aggressive alpha males that none of them are special and that they will die someday making all the materialistic things they acquired in life absolutely pointless. The film itself is sort of an anti-dystopian dystopia film (If that makes sense) and makes a strong stand against what Tyler saw as evil capitalism.