These we're two exerts from my review. Mind you I like the fact that converstaion and comunication is established on the net I think that this is a better place for this type.

So here they are:

Love the layout. Are these pages from your real journal? Interesting. The picture drew me in, adorable kitty! Cute. Fight Club
- glad someone else liked it besides me. It's a movie about mental illness, not many people see that.
cordeliameg

fight club is about mental disorders? whoa! I mustve missed the whole thing. I thought it was about setting a new trend for
male breast implants.
trik

Okay so I can see both of the statements as being valid ideas about the movie.
~But~
I see it as something different. I found it to be a struggle of ones inner self. A reaching out into what could be and not what we are made to be. I found an article a while ago about a group called the situationists and I am going to post it here. I know there may be spelling mistakes but I was typing it fast so I hope you get the gist of what I am talking about.

(from Culture Jam: The Uncooling Of America (William Morrow and Company., 1999)) Let me out of this
spectacle
Absinthe-sipping band of artists offer clue to break consumer trance
Most people have never heard of culture jamming. Yet it is not a new movement. We place
ourselves on a revoulutionary continuum that includes, moving backward in time, early punk rockers,
the 60s hippie movement, a group of European intellectuals and conceptual artists called the
Situationist International, the Surrealists, Dadaists, anarchists and a host of other social agiators
down through the ages whose chief aim was to challenge the prevailing ethos in a way so primal and
heart-felt it could only be true. What we all have in common besides a belligerent attitude toward
authority is a willingness to take big risks and a commitment to pursue small, spontaneous moments
of truth. Opportunities to act bodly (which often means not the way you would normally, reflexively
act) present themselves every day and maybe even every hour. Authentic acts tend to get noticed
amid the fakery and correctness on which postmodern culture thrives. "In a small room where
people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence," said Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, "one
word of truth sounds like a pistol shot." The punks, like the hippies, yippies, beats, anarchists,
Dadaists, Surrealists, autormatistes, Fluxists and any number of other disaffected visionaries,
represented an age-old spirit of spontaneous defiance toward the established order. Bit it was teh
Situationists who first applied that spirit of anarchy to modern media culture. They were the first to
understand how the media spectacle slowly corrodes the psyche. They were, in a sense, the first
postmodern revolutionaries.
Little fun

The Situationists were originally just eight artists and writters, most of them European, who sat
down on a July day in 1957 in the little town of Cosio d'Arroscia, Italy, to have a little fun together
over Gauloises and absinthe. Though a reasonably short-lived group (by the 70s, most everyone had
forgotten about them), they generated an anarchic drive that a generation of students, aritsts and
radicals recognized as the real thing. The Situationists declared a comitment to a "a life of
permanent novelty." The creativity of everyday people, which consumer capitalism and communism
had weakened but not killed, desperately needed to find espression. Down with eht bureaucracis and
hierarchies and ideologies that stifled spontaneity and free will. To the Situationists, you are ~
everyone is ~ a creator of situations, a performance artist, and the performance, of course, is your life,
lived in your own way. Various stunts were concocted to foster spontaneous living. Situationist
members suggested knocking down churches to make space for children to play, and putting switches
on street lamps so lighting would be under public control.
Two things

The Situationists believed that many times a day each of us comes to a little fork in the path. We
can then do one of two things: act the way we normally, reflexively act or do something a little risky
and wild, but genuine. We can choose to live our life as a "moral, poetic, erotic and almost spiritual
refusal" to co-operate with the demands of consumer culture. The Situationists spoke often of the
"spectical" of modern life. The term encompassed everything from billboards to art exhibitions to
soccer matches to radio and TV. Broadly speaking it meant modern society's "spectacular" level of
commodity consumption and hype. Everything human beings once experienced directly had been
turned into a show put on by someone else. Real living had been replaced by prepackaged
experiences and media-created events. Immediacy was gone. Now there was only "mediacy" ~ life
nediated through other instruments, life as a media creation. The Situationists use the term
"kidnapped" ~ the spectale had "kidnapped" our real lives. I think this helps explain the strong
visceral reaction many people had to Nike's use of the Beatles tune Rebolution, and, later, to Apple's
appropriation of Bob Dylan, and the Gap's (posthumous) muging of Jack Kerouac. Nostalgic, griping
yuppies may not have been able to articulate it perfectly, but they understood that some fundamental
part of their lives had been stolen. Culture jamming is, at its roots, just a metaphor for stopping the
flow of spectacle long enough to adjust your set. Stopping the flow relies on an element of surprise.
That's why Zen master may suddenly throw a widly cryptic, inappropriate, even obscene answer to
your harmless query. He might answer your question by removing his shoe and placing it on top of
his head, or throwing it at you, or telling you that if you meet the Buddha on the road you must kill
him. The Zen master is trying to break your trance. He's showing you a new path to the waterfall.
If enough people saw the light and undertook spontaneous acts at once, the Situationists believed, the
result would be a mass awakening that would suddenly devalue the currency of the spectacle. The
North American dream has devolved into exactly the vacant obliviousness they talked about a have a
nice day kind of happiness that close examination tends to disturb. If you keep up appearances keep
yourself diverted with new aquisitions and constant entertainments, keep yourself pharmacologized
and recoil the moment you feel real life seeping in between the cracks, you'll be all right. Some
Dream.



So there it is.
This is what I feel the film or book if you have ever read it (I have not) was about.

Take Care

Love Karl