Fight Club

I think we all have a Tyler in us; we just keep him or her tamed, caged and locked up most of the time. I loved it when Edward Norton’s character said just as the condo blew up, "there goes a house with all the condiments and no food" and when Tyler (Brad Pitt) says "only when you have lost everything are you really set free" and also when says, “Only after disaster can we be resurrected”. I think I can go on and on about how many “ah ha” moments this movie has. Even as a girl I can relate to the inner tension every human has with his/her own self. I might be over analyzing here but I think the crazy state Edward Norton was in and his pseudo imaginary friend, Tyler, being so sadistic is not as Hollywood as you would like to think. Matter of fact it is real, just not in the blood goring, let’s join an underground Fight Club, kind of way.

We suppress agony, frustration, sexual desires, animalistic rages, we question faith, religion, the existence of God and ultimately the truth about our state of mind (or lack thereof). We inadvertently deny such bottled up tension, and dismiss acts of violence as being cannibalistic. Beating a man to death for the pleasure it gives yourself is vicious, because what separates man from beast is the brain God gave us in order to use reason, have judgment, and believe that bad people end up playing poker with Satan for all eternity (I am sure hell is a lot worse than gambling with a man with red horns, a tail and a pitchfork).

Action has a birthplace: the mind. Every thought that emanates from your mind has the power to transform into an action (even speech is an action), but it’s motivation and consequences that either push you or dissuade you from carrying through. From the most nuclear of all thoughts to the most benign and flagrant of all thoughts, we all have them, but don’t always act upon them. Even impulse is not impulse, it has gone from being something that the mind created to something that the body communicated. Yet the basic inklings of those thoughts permeates through your action. For example, if you are angry at someone you may want to go sleep it off, light up a cigarette, write them an angry letter, avoid them, call them and try to communicate with them, pound a punching bag during boxing practice, but really deep down inside you want to ring their throats, you want to jolt out the nastiest words, but these are just hermits in your mind, instead you act in the manner expected of you (yes psycho paths and people who have wrong wirings in their brain, like sex predators, rapists, kleptomaniacs, etc are exceptions).

If everyone acted on impulse and instinct, and listened to their Tyler’s, the golden rule of Fight Club would be broken: everyone would be talking about Fight Club, because everyone would be in it.