Section C Flashcards
(15 cards)
Ebert’s main argument:
Gen X have no chance to live masculine because if the white-collar jobs.
DISAGREE: because men actually more powerful than women in many office jobs.
‘slaves in white collar’.
CHALLENGING: because men is happening to be in more ‘white collar job’ and not work outside it seems as if they are ‘weaker’, however they are using their intelligence to work in jobs which are not as tiring as working in a labour career. Additionally, workshops are more helpful for men problems such as; Bob crying about being castrated.
‘men afraid of losing their cojones’.
CHALLENGING: In Fight Club, it is men trying to find meaning in life however, it is shown through violence and Fight Club is based one PvP fight, which meant whoever win is the winner. As patriarchy society labelled men that they should be alpha by using strength
Bradshaw
gloriously spiteful’ and ‘well-acted’.
AGREE: First half is the better of the two clear sections of the film- the film does begin to move away from its satirical first half and lose some of the dark humour that makes its first half such a success.
We agree that the second half loses power with the introduction of Project Mayhem, occasionally spoon feed the audience.
Scene in hotel room ‘because I am you and you are me’ is too easy an out for a movie that has been witty and darkly comic up until this
Nihilism
A world in which we have no morals; no objection; no ideological ideals; nothing at all
Nihilism in fight club
At the start of the text the audience is introduced to a weak, vapid ‘hero’ of the text. His whole existence seems to revolve around the empty consumer culture of the late 1990s.
Micro of Nihilism
As the camera arcs around Jack’s home, elements of furniture ‘appear’ tagged by graphics from the ‘Ikea’ catalogue.
Jack refers to them as part of his ‘nesting instinct.’
This is the instinct that drives a 30 year old man to build a ‘home’, reinforcing our ideas about the expectations of Capitalist society.
Nihilism point
In the eyes of Capitalist society, Jack owns a home, buy good branded items, have a white collar job.
The flat scene is a representation of the ‘perfect’ life that Jack seems to live, yet his unhappiness points to his lack of fulfilment; his life is as unsatisfying as the empty fridge that he gazes longingly into.
In this weakened state ‘Jack’ is no hero to aspire to, even his archetypal name has connotations of the atypical ‘John Doe’, a person who cannot be identified. Jack is arguably a ‘slave’ in search of a ‘master’.
Who is the ubermensch
Tyler is the ‘ubermensch’ we had been hoping for, or another ‘master’ that must be destroyed.
This is explored in the scene wherein Tyler gives Jack the ‘acid kiss’.
Ramey arguments in psycho
Jack has an under developed EGO; which means Tyler (Id) escapes.
Tyler is another personality who emerges when Jack experiencing an intend conflict
Explanation of Ramey:
Weak ego, which left him vulnerable; I agree this is because Jack was established as a weak character, whilst Tyler has his own opinion. (Jack spends his every single with ikea, in a toilet cubicle: Dark lighting) and
Agree because he wouldn’t have Tyler he he weren’t in conflict
What is psychoanalytic theory
Ego = moral what society wants
Id = bad
Superego = good
Jack is..
superego and ego because he is not letting Id go ‘wild’ every now and then
Tyler is…
Id because he wants to do bad things and start is own world
What is Gender Theory
Proposed by Ramey who think Fight Club is reverting to an atavistic view of men; that are warriors and violent
Gender theory Idea
Feminism has changed the society.
Traditional role of males are diminishing
Gender Theory points
FC represented women as damaged, resourceful, emotionally unstable.
Men became feminised
This film is misogynitstic - the film only has one female. Marla are used for sex and she represents the women
