Fight Club Themes
Violence
You might not realize it at a glance, but Fight Club is quite Buddhist. The film is all about reaching enlightenment, finding it within, and realizing that you cannot truly know something until you...
Identity
What's in a name? Would a violent anarchist by any other name still be as volatile? In order to figure out this little conundrum, we'd first have to know our main character's name. And our main nar...
Dissatisfaction
If you've ever been dissatisfied with your venti soy vanilla macchiato with a double shot, you know how all the men in this movie feel…except replace "venti soy vanilla macchiato with a double sh...
Man and the Natural World
The world we live in now is about as far from "natural" as you can get. People have liposuction to remove fat. We have Botox to stop aging. We use a telephone or the Internet to order modular furni...
Madness
Some people speak of themselves in the third person. It can be annoying. But if people start seeing themselves in the third person—well, that's just crazy.Not only is our narrator seeing things t...
Mortality
Going to fight club is kind of like going to church. It fosters a sense of community and its members find a purpose in life. Also, just as many religions give their followers a vision of an afterli...