As you are resting and catching up on work over this (fantastic, glorious, absolutely necessary) Thanksgiving break week, here are some thoughts to get you going on blogging your responses to Fight Club:
--Tyler refers to the current moment (note: 1999) as one without any distinction or great battles. "Our Great War is a spiritual war," he claims, "our Great Depression is our lives." What do you suppose Tyler meant by this assertion? How does it relate to Fight Club? What critiques of masculinity or Americanness does it make?
--Edward Norton is obsessed with IKEA furniture (or more specifically, IKEA catalogs) at the beginning of the movie. How is he a symptom of consumer culture?
--Why does Project Mayhem focus on NYC's financial district as the nexus of their frustration? How might a post-9/11 world view this movie?
--Edward Norton's realization that Tyler Durden is a hallucination is the twist in an otherwise straightforward violent movie. How does this twist effect the movie's message? Does it detract from the movie's critique or deepen its impact for you?
--If you've seen this movie before, how is this viewing different? How does it relate to the social and cultural critiques we've read in the other texts for the course and how does it compare to the cinematic critiques we've viewed in Everything is Illuminated and The Kite Runner?
--If you're already begun reading In the Shadow of No Towers, how does Fight Club relate to, resist or differ from the messages and critiques of Spiegelman's text?
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