装B年龄不能错过。记录生活势在必得~

 这篇影评其实有点违心。。为了迎合认识论老师的『真实』这一主题。。

有些地方写得不够煽情，也不够多。我其实特别喜欢这电影。看不懂的直接跳过，下面有截图和喜欢的台词～～ 

Reality and Identity

Fight Club’s protagonist (whose name was never pointed out), is an employee of a big car company. He suffers from serious insomnia. He alsohates his repetitive and boring life, but could not identify the problem. This makes him feel self conscious, full of hate and maybe paranoid about his environment. When pills did not help him with the sleeping issue, he went to groups where people had incurable diseases. That helped—people really listened to him, and he was able to be himself. Then Marla Singer appears in the groups, she is also a fake case and knows that the narrator is one too. He starts losing sleep again. One day on a business flight, he discovers Tyler Durden, acharming man who sells soap. Both of them get to know each other better as the narrator lives in with Tylerdue to the explosion of his condo. They find brawling with each other quite expressive and then formed a fight club. This club was underground, “First rule: Don't talk about fight club.Second rule: Don't talk about fight club”. But the club still grew bigger as time past. The narrator felt good about it, “It was on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Tyler and I just gave it a name.” The relationship between Tyler and the narrator got complicated as Marla reappeared in the wreck house they lived in. Then as the fight club grew bigger, things got out of the narrator’s control. Tyler was directing all sorts of illegal events skillfully under the name of “Project Mayhem”, they trains themselves asan army, to destroy modern civilization. The narrator finds out that Tyler “was truly born as a distinct personality when the narrator's unconscious desire for Marla clashedwith his conscious hatred for her.” “He tries to trace Tyler'ssteps, traveling all over the country and feeling a sense of déjà vu wherever he travels. Puzzled, he calls Marla Singer, and asks her to say his name. When she responds "Tyler Durden," he realizes the truth – Tyler is an aspect of his own split personality. Tyler appears in his room and explains that he is in control of the narrator's bodywhenever he is asleep. He tracks Tyler to the downtown headquarters of major credit card companies, which Tyler plans to destroy in order to collapse the consumerist financial system. The narrator, attempting to disarm theexplosives in the building basement, is confronted by Tyler, knocked unconscious, and taken to the upper floor of another building to witness the impending destruction. The narrator, who is held by Tyler at gunpoint, realizes that, sharing the same body with Tyler, he really holds the gun. He finds himself holding the gun and fires it into hismouth, shooting through the cheek without killing him. The illusion of Tyler collapses, with an exit wound to the back of his head. Members of Project Mayhem, who still seethe narrator as Tyler, bring Marla Singer to him and leave them alone, despite being shocked over his wound. Marla, who was warned to leave the city by the narrator, concernedlyasks what happened. The narrator explains that he shot himself and tells her,"You met me at a very strange time in my life." They watch as the buildings explode in a collapsing skyline outside the windows, standingside-by-side and holding hands.” (Answers.com).

 What reality means to us mostly is we are who we are. What would happen if we don’t do whatwe think we are doing and think differently? What if we are not the person wethink we are? Doesn’t that make all the things in life a little bit different? 

The narrator had problems with finding out that he was Tyler, or, who he was. The reason to that might be he lost his own consciousness of him as a person. He didn’t know who he was, what he wanted to do; why he stillworks for people he despises. The movie implied reality as a materialized and void. The narrator escaped from reality. 

Opposing to the narrator’s situation of not sensing reality, the portraying of this story is pretty real. The monotone in the narration implies the theme of him having a monotone life. He was as normal as a man could be. 

The lost of identification of the narrator was also due to lack of communication with people. People get to know themselves better by others. The narrator was the opposite. His boss never called him as his own name; neither did anyone else in the film. His only friend that he tried to talk to (other than every-day talk) was Marla, who chooses to walk away every time the narrator seems to have a fitabout him not being Tyler.

 The narrator didn’t answer what name he had when she asked, “Rupert? Cornelius? Any of those stupid names you come up with?” He never introduced his name to the audience. Later on he used “Jack” as a medium to tell the feelings other than “I”, probably because of the book he read about this novel about an organ telling the story of Jack. (“There's a whole series of these! I am Jill's nipples!”)

"I am Jack's flamed sense of rejection."

“I am Jack's cold sweat.”

“I am Jack's wasted life.”

“I am all alone. My father dumped me, Tyler dumped me. I am Jack's broken heart.”

 “Sir, in Project Mayhem we have no names.”This was also something about losing his control over his identity. All thepeople called him “sir”, and they never called each other by names. Tyler was only the Brad Pitt Tyler to the narrator; toothers, Tyler was the narrator.

 When the big-tit Bob died, the narrator wanted to arouse their awareness about the seriouss ituation the people were fooling around with. “He’s not a piece of evidence!” Thenthe members come up with a rule that once a person in Project Mayhem dies, he “deserves”a name, as though a recovery of identity.

 Fight Club gavethe lost people—including the narrator—an identity; or the reality: they were men. the men’s masculinity was aroused. They were people like the narrator—hadnothing to hold on to but materials. This was the reason the narrator was obsessedwith buying Ikea furniture, trying to find out “What kind of dining set defines me as a person.” Then again, Tyler points out that people end up being owned by their own possessions. To have a fight, they hadto get rid of shirts, rings and ties; which were objects that represented acivilized and material world. “When a fight was over, nothing was solved. But nothing mattered.” This was how the narrator felt. He started out thinking that “never having a fight in his life” would be a good thing. Now, the club really meant something to him.

 As a conclusion, from the film the audience realized that it is important to keep hold of one’s identity even without the belief in a religion, or being obsessed with materials. Just as Tyler put it in the movie,

　　You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of theworld.

You only live inreality when you recognize yourself. Be sure when Tyler asks you, what you would feel like if you died on that spot.

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多么尴尬啊，只有调味料而没有食物的冰箱。 

帅帅的pitt 

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