I am Jack's Blown Mind

Rating: Null/10 (19 January 2001)

"In the world i see, you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of rockefeller center. you wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. you climb the wrist-thick vines that wrap the sears tower, and when you look down, you see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway."
So is the vision of Tyler Durden and the ultimate outcome of the actions of what was once a group of lost souls that were part of something called Fight Club. That later evolved into Project Mayhem.
Fight Club is, in my opinion, the greatest movie ever made. Every moment of the film is drenched with style, substance, and vision. Every scene thoroughly thought out to pound home the message that this writer (whose name escapes me) had to say. There are to many metaphors thrown into this movie that one could not begin to explain them.
Lets get right to the heart of this film, the center of its message...Tyler Durden. An anarchist, a revolutionary...or rather, just another guy in the world, seperated only by his courage. The moment he first speaks i was completely captivated on his every word. Tyler is truly one of the only people ive ever met (i know hes a movie character, but you know what i mean..) that i would follow. He, like so many REAL people, have seen through the blinds of society, through advertising, and commercialism...he sees what the world is now, and what it could be. What it has been, and when it comes down to it...what it should be. "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes. Working jobs we hate, so we can buy s**t we dont need!" "We have no great war, and no great depression. But our great war is a spiritual war...our great depression, is our lives."
There is so much truth behind every thing this man says that "fight club" might literally change your life.
Yes, there is fighting...yes there is violence and quite a bit of swearing. And yes there is sex. But none of that is what this movie is really about. I view the fighting as being a metaphor. For one, its the only thing we have to make us feel...real. We can call ourselves human, separate ourselves from all the other life around us and bestow any crowns upon ourselves that we so choice but for many of us...we just want to be what we are - animals. Hunters and gathers. Not lawyers or salesman. Not secretaries or doctors. we are what we've been since the dawn of life in the universe, and nothing, no ad compains or lawsuits against nature can change this. I also view the fighting, as the people having the media beaten out of them. The pain frees them from society and all the expectations and requirements that are thrown at us. "We are hunters in a world of shopping". One could say all this would be (the world myself, tyler, and many others see) is a regression of what the human race has accomplished. It is not, it is the realization that all we really need is freedom. And its the voice of a generation, raised on expectations, crying out for a chance to truly be alive. Far before we die...we want to live. not in the world all the '60's sellouts setup for us. but in a world that is natural...a world that is alive and free!
As of now, must of my generation (im 19 by the way)might still be fascincated by the wonder that is Britney Spears and the blackstreet boys and what have you. But its only a matter of time before someone like Tyler Durden comes along. One day this world will be ours (as if it isnt all ready) and we will do with it as we so please. There will be no shopping malls, no superhighways, no teletubbies, no pokeman, and no Martha Stewart. Hopefully we will all realize what we can do before its too late.
Im glad this movie came out...all the old people int his world (the ones that happen to be in authority) can ridicoul it all they want. i would imagine they view ideas like this as a threat to them.
All i have left to say (im sure i have more but cant think or anythingelse now) is watch this movie with an open mind and see it, and yourselves, and life, for what they are and what they can be....infinite and free.
because you are not your job. you arent the car you drive. you arent how much money you have in the bank. you arent the contents of your wallet. and you are not your kackis....you are alive. and its only after youve lost everything that you are free to do anything...
in tyler we trust....