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“Fight club”; directed by David Fincher (1999), is a movie that holds many themes. One main theme that is consistent throughout the entire film is that of masculinity (www-scf.usc.edu/~buckalew/fight.htm), linking into the theme of anti-feminism, however this theme is not presented to the viewer in a way which is insulting to females. This film demonstrates to the viewer how the modern men of today feel their power and purposes are fading and highlights the extreme men will go to in order for them to regain their important masculinity. It returns to the well-known caveman days where men like to perceive themselves as the hunter, or gatherer, the more dominant of the sexes. This idea is overpowering in this movie and one thing this film aims to do is make it’s point as clear as possible about the modern day men in society. This theme of masculinity is highlighted in the movie through two main areas; these are character and symbolism. Fight Club is basically about men who are employed to serve others, men who hold jobs such as waiters, men who feel that they have lost a certain degree of their masculinity, who come together and unite by forming Fight Club (www.critism.com/md/fightclub). This club is a place where they can fight each other and feel like real men again. The film itself is very in your face and gritty, with extreme violence. I believe that Fincher, although not entirely discluding the female audience, but by making “Fight Club extremely gritty and violent was attempting to overwhelm and bring out the masculinity of the audience in the two and a half hours while they are viewing the movie. The theme of anti-feminism is clear to us at many points throughout the movie, particularly in the fact that the women characters in the movie meet bad ends. The two women characters in the film are Marla Singer and Chloe. Marla is a rather tragic character. She steals, smokes and is completely used by Jack, although she is clearly in love with him. Marla calls Jack when she has attempted suicide, and her other cry to help is made to Jack when she thinks she has breast cancer. Marla is weak. She allows herself to be used and she also tries to commit suicide, and she even fails at that. Her opinion of herself is very low (www.garmetsigma.com/fightclub/), when Tyler rescues Marla from the hands of death she is about to fall into due to her overdose of pills she tells the ambulance workers “the girl who lives there used to be a lovely charming girl”, meaning she no longer believes that she is. Also the camera zooms into a close-up of two or three remaining pills which could lead to the argument that Marla was not fully committed to the idea of killing herself if she did not finish the bottle of pills.
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