Guesg blogger: Cole 1

SPOILER ALERT: One character driven movie I enjoyed was Fight Club. It’s about an unnamed character that has a really stressful job and insomnia. The combination of the two causes him to seek therapy, where he is practically laughed at. He starts to attend different group meeting “to see what real suffering is like”. He finds out that listening to others and crying slowly cures his insomnia. This worked until Marla Singer started to attend the meetings. He realized she was a faker, causing him to stop crying, which in turn leads to his insomnia coming back. Later he meets a guy named Tyler Duragan, a soap salesman. He and Tyler start a fight club after Tyler says to hit him as hard as he can. The fight club starts to grow bigger and bigger, helping people get their anger out and helping them to not have so much stress in their lives. The club eventually gets too big, and the unnamed guy realizes that he is crazy and that Tyler is made up by him. Tyler Duragan is the guy that was made up in the unnamed guys mind, whose name coincidentally is Tyler Duragan. Brad Pitt played the made up Tyler Duragan, and I thought that he did a very good job of it. He portrayed who the real Tyler Duragan wanted to be. Edward Norton plays the real Tyler Duragan, who I also thought did a really good job of showing the viewer a schizophrenic guy whose thought almost get him into some deep trouble. The real Tyler was the quiet, cubical working, everyday guy, but he had insomnia that lead to schizophrenia, which causes him to make up the other lead character. The made up Tyler was a loud, tough, strong, women’s man, who got what he wanted and coasted through life easy. This is who the real Tyler wants to be, and the made up Tyler does everything that the real Tyler wants to do. I think that the theme is showing how most men want to have the movies sense of masculinity. I agree with most critics when they say it is a very different movie to watch and that it shows some harsh things throughout it, but I also agree with them when they say they liked it. I personally think it is a great movie, and that it is well worth your money if you can watch it a few times to truly understand it.