I am not fond of the Giroux essay. I do not agree with just about all of what he has to say. Except agreeing and disagreeing about this essay isn\u2019t that simple. I \u201cagree\u201d with the foundation of his argument\u2026 that when contemplating the issues presented in Fight Club, such as capitalism, consumerism, violence, misogyny, the emasculated male, it would be swell if Fincher\/Palahniuk could have discussed the entire spectrum effected and not limited the issues to one particular class, race, gender, and so on. But I \u201cdisagree\u201d because the story isn\u2019t meant to embrace every single aspect. It\u2019s specifically pointed at white, middle-class men for a rather valid reason and it just seems silly to say that the movie is any less insightful because it chose to narrow its concentration. It doesn\u2019t mean that Fincher is saying anything against those other elements, that they aren\u2019t as important, or that it isn\u2019t worthwhile to explore, it just simply isn\u2019t relevant to this particular story. Statements such as \u201cGiven Fincher\u2019s suggestion that men have no enduring qualities outside of their physicality\u2026 (14-15),\u201d \u201c\u2026romanticizing violence in the face of\u2026 abuse and violence that people involuntarily experience every day because of their sexual orientation, [their race], their gender, or their class status\u2026 (17),\u201d just drove me a little bit crazy. My reading of both film and book is that \u201cJack\u201d realizes the fault in their little experiment and attempts to right \u201cTyler\u2019s\u201d wrongs\u2026 i.e. realizes that violence and terrorism is not the answer, otherwise known as providing the moral to the story. \u201cJack,\u201d however, fails in both texts and ultimately inflicts even more violence upon himself in order to find his true identity, peace, etc., but I can\u2019t completely accept that it all promotes this chest-beating brute that Giroux sums it all up as. <\/p>\n
The biggest critique, or question, I have always had is why the movie lessens Marla\u2019s significance in \u201cJack\u2019s\u201d journey. Palahniuk says that Fight Club is first a love story, and then a whole bunch of other things afterwards. Julie is disturbed by the anti-feminist\/misogynistic manner in which Marla is portrayed, and I completely agree, but mostly only in the case of the film. Marla\u2019s role is much more positive in the book and I\u2019ve always wondered why Fincher would have down-played the relationship so dramatically. Perhaps a victim of post-modern marketing? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am not fond of the Giroux essay. I do not agree with just about all of what he has to say. Except agreeing and disagreeing about this essay isn\u2019t that simple. I \u201cagree\u201d with the foundation of his argument\u2026 that when contemplating the issues presented in Fight Club, such as capitalism, consumerism, violence, misogyny, … Continue reading oh how I love the Fight Club…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/660\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}