pain

Rating: 10/10 (9 April 2001)

I'm sure you've all seen this by now, so I'll just tell you about my favorite theme in the movie. For the astute, you will have ascertained that the alluded-to theme is pain. We've been taught that pain and fighting is just in certain cases: fighting for self-defense, for love, for ones country. So why the controversy over 'Fight Club'? Because they fight for no apparent reason. Perhaps because of boredom with life. I wonder if there is ever a situation in which pain in and of itself could be a good thing. How much can you know about yourself, how truly free are you if pain is always secretly influencing your opinions? Remember the incident with the lye? Powerful, beautiful. I wrote a piece about a similar experience of mine entitled,"The Cross."