, a 1999 movie, was controversial right after it was released, and the reputation was very polarized. In the 20 years since its release, "Fight Club" has gained more and more fans and is regarded as a classic by movie fans. It also won a high score of 9.0 on Douban.
In August of this year, the comics completed by the author of the original film "Fight Club"-"Fight Club 2" will be launched on various platforms.
is really great for those who like movies.
Taylor is back!
shout again the slogan of either force or death!
The first rule of re-announcement!
will surely make fans and friends go crazy.
Of course, in addition to the charm of the plot itself, the low-key and plump core is even more enthusiastic. Under violence, more is to guide people to think about life itself.
Is the thing we are looking for really what we want,
or is it a mirage piled up by a dazzling array of advertisements and comparison psychology?
However, it is quite ironic that this film, which attempts to completely expose the hypocrisy of consumerism, has become one of the most successful novel adaptations in history. When we tried to promote it to the altar of anti-consumerism, "Fight Club" itself has become one of the spokespersons of consumerism.
Twenty years later, the anxiety that happened to white-collar workers in the United States also came to us, and it has become worse. We are repeating the same work, hoping to live a good life one day. The era has given us the identity of consumers, and the brand divides our consumption behavior into three, six, nine levels.
In the process of chasing the tide, we inevitably quantify our expectations of life to material. The demand for housing, private cars, fashion and food has already surpassed the physiological standards, and we place our social status in the name On the label of the brand, decorate yourself by plastering colorful labels on your body. In order to put more labels, I chose to rush forward under pressure and continue to run like a Kuafu day by day.
For the protagonist in "Fight Club", we don't know who the last name is, this anxiety makes him awake all night. At the beginning, he mail-ordered various high-end furniture with novel designs from the IKEA catalog to relieve the pressure. Later, he began to pretend to be patients in patient associations with various difficult and miscellaneous diseases, and obtain some psychological compensation when listening to the unfortunate experiences of others, so that he could sleep peacefully.
On a flight, the protagonist met Taylor Dayton, who calls himself a soap dealer, and his witty conversation and chic attitude made the protagonist feel his impoverishment. After the apartment full of furniture was bizarrely blown up, the protagonist asked Taylor for help, and Taylor readily agreed to his request, but made a simple request-a fist-to-fight fight.
Not only does the protagonist envy Taylor’s life, but also meets the protagonist at the patient’s meeting. Mara, a woman who suffers from the same illness as the protagonist, also meets Taylor after a phone call. In the crazy sex, Mara is overwhelmed by Taylor’s charm-even though the protagonist To her still not dared and unwilling to express feelings.
Taylor's life is like an extinct hippie. He lives in a crumbling house in the suburbs. He is not tired of famous brands and livelihoods. In Taylor's view, work, bank deposits, money in a car, wallet, or fashion can't represent a person. Remove those colorful tags and people will become ordinary people.
So Taylor did his best to mock the mirage people pursued under consumerism. He inserted vulgar pictures into the film of movie screenings, mixed filth in the food of high-end restaurants, and removed the fat extracted from the rich women's weight-loss surgery. The refined soap is sold back to them. From the protagonist's point of view, Taylor's rebellion against consumerist society is the spiritual paradise he has always longed for. And their liberating nature fighting each other every Saturday night gradually attracted other people to join. People from all walks of life in the society gathered to seek vent in the fight club.
By returning to barbaric fighting, people can temporarily lay down their social status, and temporarily forget the anxiety built on it, and immerse themselves in pure pleasure. The blood flowing down the forehead and the bitterness spreading in the mouth after the tooth is broken make people once again find their forgotten selves, and the free and easy things outside and the violent pouring out make people lose consumers here and now. His identity, freed from material slavery and regained freedom. z1It is true that the existence of fight clubs only proposes an absurd solution to the consumerist society. We may temporarily leave the social organization and seek solace in our own way, but it is impossible to live alone without society. Taylor's anti-consumerist movement eventually turned into a centralized terrorist organization, and the members of the fight club were trained to be machines under Taylor's orders, destroying various symbols of consumerism throughout the United States.
The utopia of venting and liberation has become a brainwashing and authoritarian organization. In the process codenamed "Operation Chaos", Taylor tried to liberate people trapped by material and money, and planned to build a credit card company that symbolizes money enslaving mankind. For this "noble" goal, members are willing to sacrifice, sacrificing their personal feelings, freedom and thoughts.
What is the difference between people who are bound by new thoughts and people who are deceived by advertising? The protagonist is terrified of Taylor's crazy behavior, but in the process of searching for Taylor, he finds that the so-called Taylor Dayton is just a phantom in his own heart, a manifestation of the spirit of resistance that he splits out of depression. The encounter with Taylor, the sparring, and Taylor's proverbs are all created by the protagonist.
In the end, the protagonist killed Tyler Dayton by shooting himself, defeating Dayton in his heart, which means that the protagonist once again succumbed to consumerism and returned to the life of drifting in the secular ocean.
So, our "Fight Club 2" story begins.
was created by the original author for this comic and continued to the end of the movie. The protagonist who married Mara (now he calls himself Sebastian) has spent nine years in a stable life. After killing Taylor, the protagonist escaped from the sharp in life, relying on drugs to maintain his mental stability.
But Taylor Dayton never really disappeared.
became the protagonist of a stereotyped society and was tired of Mara. Their marriage entered a slow death, and their son began to make explosives at home. The once-quiet chaotic action is booming again. In the world of comics, everyone is looking for a way to vent, gradually driving the world to madness.
In this absurd and unruly world, Taylor has become an eternal nightmare that entangles the protagonist’s family. Starting from his great-grandfather, this inheritable personality has manipulated the family for generations like the demon Mephistopheles who seduced Faust. fate. Taylor, who could not be truly eliminated, declared war on the world of consumerism again, and even adopted extreme measures to completely destroy the foundations of civilization...
"Fight Club 2" inherited the spiritual core of the movie, and questioned it in almost crazy irony With the reader's knowledge of ourselves, the desires that are induced, without thinking about the views that are fully accepted, and the information flowing in all the time, when these things fill our minds, can we still recognize ourselves? Is there still a "truth"?
The choices we make, the wealth we desire. Are these what our heart desires or are they misty mirages constructed on the cornerstone of consumerism?
There is no need to fight each other happily. Now we have many ways to escape social pressure temporarily, but all the means of catharsis can only be achieved through consumption. Are we far from the influence of consumerism or the whirlpool of quicksand? China is getting deeper and deeper?
