Fight Club

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.

I think this is a very powerful quote on consumerism from Fight Club.  Its saying that advertising shows all these glamorous products in over budgeted commercials and ads.  There is no need for the product, but in the commercial or on the ad it shows the man getting the girl, or having a better life after having said product.  This makes people spend time at their meaningless job, to make money to waste it on stupid things that have a perceived necessity that will just sit and gather dust. The movie is commenting that this creates a society where people believe it is the things you own that define you as a person instead of who you are.

"I used to be a juicer, you know, using steroids? Diabanol and Winstrol... ugh, they use that on race horses for Christ sakes. And now I'm bankrupt, I'm divorced, my two grown kids - won't even return my phone calls." 

This quote is definitely a comment on masculinity in the movie.  This quote is from the character Robert, who went from being a body builder, so very manly, to having tits.  The man had lost everything he owned for trying to be 'manly' and it even was an obsession.  I think this is a comment on how people are so obsessed with gender rolls and how they should be seen in society.  People may not take it to the same extent as this character, but there definately is a stereotype of genders in society that people cling to.

http://fightclub.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Paulson


Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

This quote relates to generation X because its trying to go against the grain of societal lifestyle.  It comments on the monotany of everyday life with the typical job, typical house and typical life.  Everyone is trying to be perfect in societies eyes, and they think this is how they can get there.  They're suppressing who they really are to fit a mold so they can be praised by the people around them.  This quote is saying the set all that aside and let yourself be whoever you want and be happy with that person, not the plastic mold that society says you should be.  

 Spike Lee review - Inside Man

3.  The characteristics of spike lee as a director that Hoberman is referring to are his integration of racially charged subject matter into his films.  Most of  Spike Lee’s other films have had to do with racism in some form or another, and this films seems to not fit that mold as much.  Even though the main plot of the story is not about racism, you can still find spike Lee’s voice in the film because there still is many instances of racial injustice portrayed. 

4.  Another point I could add to Hobermans list is that this film felt out of place for Spike as a director.  Hoberman mentioned this, but only briefly.  I really would not think that Spike Lee was behind this film if I hadn’t been told he was.  Looking closer at the film though there are little cues that are detectable that give away that the film is Spikes.  For example some of the camera work, the cast, and some of the plot are still very recognizable as Spike Lee. 

5.  Other outside sources on Spike say many of the same things that I and Hoberman have commented on.  Spike uses loud and in your face imagery and themes to get his points across.  The imagery is often bright colors that overlay a darker tone such as in Do The Right Thing.  The theme is usually based around racial injustice of some sort.  Even if all his movies don’t display these themes directly, you can find his flavor in each of his films if you look hard enough.  Source-Colin reeltalk.com

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