Monday, June 16, 2014
Wegner Fight Club
It takes watching Fight Club from a classroom structure to see it as a dystopian film. In the essay written by Phillip Wegner, Wegner puts emphasis on how Tyler Durden believed that by destroying and leveling a major credit card company, the worlds financial records would be destroyed. By destroying the records, Tyler believes that the world can start over to a new beginning. This belief backs the premise that Fight Club is a "Dystopian Film" but the film itself is sort of backwards than what we are used to seeing. Normally, we see dystopian films in future, but we don't see how they got there. Wegner paraphrases that Fight Club actually shows how a dystopia society can be created. The movie shows two guys fighting, then a dozen and progressively grows "out of the basement". Fight Club becomes project Mayhem and becomes a revolution against the financial, materialistic world thus showing the first part of the dystopian society Tyler creates.
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I really like how you discussed the fact that this movie was the build up to a dystopian society. All the other movies were about the life of a future dystopian society, but this movie just made you think about what society would become. You are left to picture and create this dystopian society on your own.
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