People really didn't get it

Rating: 9/10 (21 September 2006)

So people out there still don't know how to read between the lines? As I read some of the posts about this movie it dawned on me why I am still feeling spoon fed by most movies out there. There are postings here around pages 4 and 5 that confirmed to me that spoon feeding is still greatly needed. So since 'Fight Club' didn't do it, I'll try.
First....to those of you that didn't get the "meaning" of this pic, I'll give you the quick in's and out's of what you missed. In a few posts people didn't see the correlation between "Project Mayhem", Tyler and the actual fight club itself. If you listen to whats being "preached" by Tyler, it's all relative to the rebellion that is fight club. The club and the project are one in the same. The platform for the rebellion. Why is this Club? Because there is a dumbed down society where people are like blind, deaf and dumb sheep following the likes of tabloid centerfolds. A world where e.mail and internet sex has replaced human contact. Where emotion has gone and numbness ensues. A world where people are so starved for human contact and restrained from one another by cubical walls that the response is "G** D*** it.....hit me so I feel SOMETHING." The ever over done metaphor that compares humans to rats running thru a maze; cubicle's are the walls of the maze and Starbux is the reward around every corner. Taking down the structure that creates this sense of irrelevance is the concept of the project. Like getting hit in the face, an act of rebellion is simply a natural, primal cry for the attention that has been replaced by ads that represent your demographic and plaques on benches after someone has died. Is it a far cry for anyone to try and imagine a world where we as Americans work the same hours and have the same value on family and friends and humanity as other cultures do? Can we get back to the time when we felt a bond with our earth and not that guy in the Dockers commercial? Can we ever reconnect with people and do less in the way of super-powerdom and more in the way of living the life that we only live once? Tyler.....
What he is, that so many missed, is an enraged subconscious that allowed a man to break free of the mundane. Not because he was middle aged and not because a middle aged man needed to appeal to the younger demographic, but because a man was driven insane by the inhuman world we live in needed to break away. This character wasn't calling out the economic structure....but the sociological structure of the United States. He and other characters were made to be living strange and "sleazy" lives because that seems to be a common way for people to try and live outside the restraints of the "socially acceptable" since the socially acceptable is the only way to fit in to the cookie-cutter mold. Have you never felt so spoon fed that you just wanted to "roam the halls" and show and tell people that we are living a fabricated life in a prepackaged world.
I understand that there are a lot of people that haven't been as exposed to the phenomenon of plastic wrap and cup-cozies as others like myself. Big city life, and the everlasting fight to keep commerce on its feet because Paris Hilton told us that that is what's "hot", is unfortunately what we've become as a culture. What should be important to us is gone. Don't believe me? Ask your kids these two questions: What does Starbux do for you? What do blueberries do for you?