


Our desire leads to surrender, Our surrender motivates their power.The life we live saying we live to the fullest is merely a simple fulfilment of the appetite of greediness of the corporate masterminds.And we’re very very pissed off.” A quote from the novel We’re the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we’ve been all raised by television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won’t and we’re slowly learning that fact. The author here paints the concept of the lifeless life run by people in the illusions created merely by the 5% of people for their benefits, “God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. Here Chuck Palahniuk, through words would have portrayed the formation of a new personality by the protagonist to escape his mind prison that rages war between good and bad in this fore-fathers illustrated world.

Fight club is a 200 page novel which revolves around a young men who struggling with insomnia. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.” Said Chuck Palahniuk in novel fight club 1996. Sure, it’s literal anarchy for a while, but after that, it has a purpose: Durden wants to blow up the credit card companies, undo the American Dream, and set everyone free from their debt.“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. Project Mayhem sets its sights on destruction. We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t.” That ranting inspired what would become some of the movie’s most famous lines, like: “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate, so we can buy shit we don’t need. Without broken rules, there would be no recruitment, which Durden needs to scale up his club of disaffected men into Project Mayhem, a group of anarchists who blindly follow Durden into chaos.ĭuring filming, Fincher, Norton, and Pitt would hang out, drinking Mountain Dew, playing Nerf basketball and, “riffing on the film’s numerous bull’s-eyes: masculinity, consumerism, their aggravating elders,” according to Best. But rules are made to be broken when you’re an anarchist like Durden who makes soap from stolen liposuction fat. Officially, you’re not supposed to talk about fight club.
