"Fight Club" has always been a highly topical work by the famous Hollywood director David Fincher. It was released in 1999 and was adapted from Chuck Palanik's novel of the same name. The difference between
and the movie's current high reputation is that it was not favored by many people at the beginning of its release, and it was even severely criticized in all aspects.
has said that promotes violence in the movie, but it also implies that it implies moral decay. But nothing more than they think that this movie has deviated from the mainstream value of society and has also contributed to violence to a certain extent. , whether it is the reputation of the movie or the box office, "Fight Club" can be said to be a fiasco.
Therefore, this movie was not considered a success.
was also due to the unexpected hot sale of DVDs of the film, which to a certain extent saved the losses of the dramatist, and also reversed the "leaning to one side" bad reviews, which made word-of-mouth "polarization".
has now passed 20 years. The film has a score of 9.0 on Douban and a score of 8.8 on IMDB, and is at the bottom of the top 10. In addition to its very high score, the public has never stopped discussing issues such as human thinking and social and philosophical significance expressed in movies.
split personality is not an important theme of the film
In David Fincher’s personal opinion, this is his most satisfactory work. Brad Pitt, one of the protagonists of the movie, once said that it would take a hundred years to fully understand "Fight Club" because the movie contains too much content.
On the surface, the movie is about an ordinary white-collar male protagonist who suffers from insomnia for a long time due to daily work pressure and life difficulties. And because of this long-term insomnia, it caused a split in personality.
Edward Norton plays the male protagonist. He has a cowardly character and wants to change his life without the courage to try. You can only get deformed psychological comfort by "appreciating" terminally ill patients crying about their miserable lives at mutual aid meetings for various cancers.
Compared with the white-collar male protagonist, Brad Pitt's Taylor Dayton is a completely opposite character. He is the second personality schizophrenic from the former, Taylor is reckless, free; he is a person who combines anarchism and anarchism.
It can be said that Taylor is the perfect personality expected by the male protagonist and the externalization of his psychological appeal. After
got along with the second personality like a confidant, later there was a disagreement and conflict, and finally a frontal struggle. In the process, the white-collar male protagonist regained his lost self. Through hard work, he defeated the second personality and reached the state of complete spiritual "self". The reason why the
movie was once not favored when it was released, or even misunderstood, was that the distributor mistakenly regarded violence as the core of the film’s propaganda;
also had the personality that most viewers believed it was just a "routine" personality Splitting the film and using Freud and Jung's theories at will can explain the clear work. The only difference is that the way it expresses its meaning is violence and moral decay.
We cannot say that this view is wrong, but at least it is one-sided and representational; it is not a comprehensive, deep and true theme. How
seeks the balance of the spiritual world in contemporary society is the main content of the film.
In the film, the white-collar male protagonist does not have a name. Many movie websites, and even encyclopedias, call the male lead Jack, which is not accurate. In the movie, Jack is just the name of the protagonist of a book.
And the names he used in the mutual aid club before were all made up, they were one-offs. In the movie, the male protagonist and Mara discuss the two "equally divide" the mutual aid association. He was asked by Mara about his name. Before he could reply, the scene was cut away.
The other is the fire in the male owner’s apartment. He called Taylor from the public phone booth and was also asked "who". At this time, he gave a reply, but instead of his name, he said "that smart man." The status of
without a name fully reflects the life of the male protagonist who is constantly being copied in the insensitive work and life. As he said next to the printer, everyone seems to be a copy.
There is no doubt that the male protagonist has lost himself and has become a symbol of the social mass.
This movie, in addition to using Freud’s psychoanalytic theory to embody the multiple split personality, constantly searchingThe process of finding yourself. In fact, we can also use Taoism in our traditional culture to analyze the behavior of the two male protagonists and a series of problems caused by them.
From the beginning of the movie, the white-collar male protagonist stated his preference for IKEA furniture. It is not difficult to find that a small tea table of Tai Chi Yin and Yang appeared in the picture, and the male protagonist has a special preference for such yin and yang style things. . This is the only Taoist element in the movie. This is the first easter egg planted by David Fincher. The performance of the two characters in the
movie is particularly in line with the performance of Tai Chi Yin and Yang. The two male protagonists, one yin and one yang are originally one, but because the white-collar male protagonist loses himself, he appears to the yin. In Taoism, yin and yang are reconciled in everything. When one party is out of balance, it will definitely develop to the other extreme.
Therefore, the actor finally walks towards the Yin and embraces the Yang, which is why the extremely masculine second personality (Taylor) appears.
The two people just started to "live together", and from yin to yang, they felt a little complementary. Moving from a high-end apartment to a dilapidated and dilapidated house, Taylor has nothing to scrupulously compare with his shackled lifestyle. All the changes made the male protagonist feel very fresh and comfortable. It seemed that the long-repressed desire had been relieved freely.
Inspired by Taylor, the male protagonist took radical behavior (beating himself), so that he still got the best interest in resigning.
The two of them are like-minded, and they have gradually developed and grown into an underground fighting club from the "small fight" on the street. If there are Taoist thoughts to explain, then this is the so-called " Dao produces one, one life two, two produces three, three life ".
Everything is produced by the contradiction between Yin and Yang. Similarly, everything will follow the principle of " must be divided into ".
The two people had a disagreement for the first time because Taylor threatened a convenience store salesperson with a gun. Finally, the death of the big fat Bob completely intensified the conflict between the two.
The two people move from the initial "conjoined" state to separation, the yin begins to chase the yang, and then there is a frontal conflict. Finally, because of the shot of the male lead, the second personality disappeared and the two yin to yang merged into one. The themes of
movies include propaganda violence and criticizing consumerism, but this is not the main one. David Fincher is more from a neutral perspective, and he wants to explore when a certain social state continues to expand to an extreme degree.
will inevitably split into another state at this time to reconcile with it. The male protagonist’s yin is completely alienated by the modern commodity society. Regarding Zhiyang, the pursuit of fairness at the beginning turned into a radical anti-society. Therefore, whether it is the most yin or the most yang, it is not an attitude worth promoting.
In the commodity society, almost all of us have become replicas, eager to vent. As a result, he has reached the state of completely venting his violent desire pursued by the male protagonist, without a name again. It can be seen that the film is a kind of discussion, what will happen to the horizontal development of the two opposites. What
finally brings to the audience is actually a kind of thinking about which is the best balance in society. The details of the
movie are reversed.
In China, many fans confuse the directors David Lynch and David Fincher. In fact, they have very different styles in movies.
If David Lynch is a director who is good at creating suspense, but hesitate to suggest plots and explain movies; then David Fincher is just the opposite. In his films, almost all plot reversals are There is no shortage of hints on the details.
In "Fight Club", the dual personality of the two male protagonists as the same person is the biggest reversal of the movie. But this reversal was not forced to the audience. Before that, the director had done a lot of preparation. Therefore, in the end, only surprises are given to the audience, but there is no disgust and stiffness.
In addition, the easter eggs in the movie are not randomly interspersed in the details, but they are layered with the plot, and penetrate to the audience bit by bit. In the
movie, Taylor splits from the hero's heart, and is actually divided into three processes. The first of
is the flash phase, which can also be said to be the frame insertion method. For this technique, the director has already explained it through the mouth of the male lead (David Fincher likes to explain it most).
Taylor flashes four times in the movie. They were the male protagonist sighing "Copy of copy" next to the photocopier; visiting the psychologist and asking the doctor to prescribe medicine in the corridor; in the mutual aid association; the last time he came out to chase the heroine Mara in the mutual aid association.
flashes
next to the photocopier
mutual aid will flash
chasing heroine Mara
The second stage is to appear in the video completely out of thin air (on the TV). In the third stage of
, Taylor appears in the world of the hero in a physical way. The first time was passing by the airport passage, and the second time was the front meeting of the cabin.
Therefore, for the detailed Easter eggs, the director has a layered penetration into the plot. In addition to the above three stages, the director also arranged some hints.
Let’s talk about the hero and Taylor first. At the beginning of the
movie, the hero once said that he had insomnia when he was seeing a psychologist. Later, when the doctor said that it was not a serious illness, he said that he still had narcolepsy and often woke up in a completely unfamiliar place for some reason (this implies that the male protagonist has schizophrenia).
Another male host called Taylor at the public telephone booth after the apartment caught fire, and he set the callback button. It is not possible to call back a phone call in a foreign public telephone booth, so this time the call between the male lead and Taylor does not actually exist, it is purely his own imagination.
After Taylor came out, the two people chatted in the bar, and they would find that Taylor was very clear about the furnishings in the male host’s home, especially the green striped sofa. This is a close-up of a sofa specially given to us by the opening scene of the movie.
and when the two were in the underground fight club, in front of everyone, almost all eye contact, not words.
is the last time the male lead resigned. He beat himself, and he was extremely skilled. Even the male protagonist couldn't help thinking of his first fight with Tyler.
Let's look at the hero, Taylor and Mara. In the
movie, Mara committed suicide by swallowing medicine. Taylor answered the phone and went to find her. It stands to reason that this is the first time the two met in the film, and it should be unexpected. But both Mara and Taylor seemed very familiar.
Besides, after Mara moved into the dilapidated house, the three of them never appeared on the same occasion at the same time. Moreover, Taylor took the initiative to talk to the male lead behind the scenes, Mara could not hear Tyler's voice, thinking that the male lead was talking to herself. The success of
is largely due to the three leading actors. Whether it's the decadent and dejected Edward Norton, or the handsome, full of personality and wild Brad Pitt, or Helena, who smokes, is extremely world-weary, and wears exaggerated Gothic makeup, they are all for people. Left a very deep impression.
is not a Hollywood commercial film in the traditional sense. Its content is decadent, crazy, and even depraved. However, the spiritual core of the film is not only full of human thinking and care, but also compatible with hope and expectation for social development.
David Fincher, with his unique audio-visual style, presents us a curious and ever-changing classic. We can't say that he took into account both business and art (the box office is bleak after all), but we can't deny its almost perfect artistry.
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