Fight Club part one

Fight club is one of my favorite movies. So when seeing it on the class schedule for the year was an exciting thing to see in August when we started class. What I enjoy the most about fight club is how you can watch the film ten times and see something new every time.

Fight Club is the story of a insomniac (Edward Norton(the narrator)) and his split personality Tyler Durden, who in the movie is played by Brad Pitt. The narrator in the story is stuck in the rut of day-to-day life being a white collar worker for a major motor company.

In the movie Edward Norton helps his sleeping problems at first by attending group therapy sessions; his first one he attends is men living with testicular cancer (pictured to the right) where he meets people like Bob who allow him to let go and release his anxiety in the form of crying. The narrator can finally sleep after he cries.

This is all peachy until Marla Singer enters his life and interrupts his group therapy sessions that he can no longer fall asleep. The narrator in this story stands for the "American Dream" and well Marla is just kind of the opposite. She smokes, steals, and generally doesn't really give a dang about anything.

And in the beginning part of the movie it is very easy to make the contrast between the Narrator and Marla. If you went off of appearance alone you could see that the Narrator dresses clean and pressed every day, he lives in a nice apartment, and he works a respectable job. Marla on the other hand looks very dark and dreary, probably shops at Hot Topic, doesn't have a job, and her apartment is in some low income housing part of the city.