Fight Club (1999)
The inner violence of our wallets is burning a hole in our pockets- or heads. Tyler's inner trouble came from his lack of motivation at his cubicle, miserable job.
It seems too often after college young adults are faced with nothing other than a job that pays too little for for the work load and stress. Than, paying for the necessities gets put on a credit card. In the in-debting quest to find happiness, Americans get stuck in a hole that they can not get out of.
Just like the fight club it is our own selves that allow for the credit card companies to beat us to a bloody pulp. Then the only thing left to do, or what it would seem, would be to blow our own heads off. In this metaphoric example the meaning is to destroy the part of our lives that becomes indebted.
The violent act of using a credit card is like taking a blow to the jaw, until the beautiful joy of spending money comes to painful end.
Now, it seems the trend is to conserve and go green. However, I feel like this may just be another corporate stunt to get people to spend money... Even if it means selling earth friendly products more expensively (which defeats the conservation theory-thus creating another fight club).
I am left with one question though. Can you really fertilize your lawn with old motor oil?
I think I'm going to have to disagree...well, sort of. I don't think the point of the movie was to remove all indebtedness.
ReplyDeleteIf you recall, it was early in the movie when Durden told his creator that "the things you own end up owning you". As you may recall, Durden stated that he was created to be what the main character (who's name was never given) wanted himself to be. Thus it seems like the possessions bit of the movie was simply a starting point for the philosophy, which I believe is located in this quote: "No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide."
During the car crash scene, Durden asks his "space monkey's" what they would wish they had done before they died. I think this is the point of the movie: To determine what it is that YOU want; not what everyone says you want, and then to pursue it with the will of a zealot.
But then, I could be way off base. :-)
Richard