When I was in college, Fight Club was one of my favorite movies. One of my friends owned the Fight Club DVD, and we used to watch it practically every week. At one point, we even knew the Fight Club script by heart. We could recite lines back to each other. I haven't watched the film in a long time, but I suspect that I still could remember every line! It really was that important to me. I could not get over it. I felt like it was a crucial piece of social commentary.
The Fight Club DVD have everything. On the one hand, it was quite a guy a movie DVD. It had all the fighting, the explosions, the ranting and raving – everything that guys like to see in a movie. On the other hand, however, the Fight Club DVD seemed to be more important. It really looked at the world and told us in a way that we had not been told before that our society was diseased – that there was something wrong with it that cut to the core. Although the movie Fight Club with short on actual solutions, nonetheless there was some value in its complaint against a society that has gone wrong.
Nowadays, however, I am less enamored with the Fight Club DVD than I used to be. I have read the book Fight Club, and seen the Fight Club DVD a few more times, and I can spot a lot of flaws in it. I am not saying that it is a worthless piece of art – far from it. What I am saying now is that it doesn't have anything socially important to say. Yes our society is corrupt, but fighting with each other, destroying public buildings, and pulling adolescent pranks will not do anything to stop it. The Fight Club DVD addresses the disease at the heart of our society by proposing more disease. Instead of fighting against alienation, it enhances it. It makes us feel better than everyone else by doing just what they are doing.
Nonetheless, if you have not seen the Fight Club DVD, you really should. Not only is it an extremely well-made movie, but it is also a part of our culture nowadays. It is one of those must watch movies, like it or not. I have also heard that a lot of Fight Club DVDs contain Easter eggs, so even if you have seen the movie it might be worth watching for that.
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