If you are following me on twitter or tumblr, you should already know that I really like “Fight Club (1999)” and watched it the second time. Hey! I usually don’t watch movies more than once if it is not awesome enough! And in case if you haven’t noticed, I am actually a movie junkie. Wait, no… Actually I love GREAT movies, no junk.
By the way, Tumblr is a great place to find modern classics to watch! Check out HappyInspirations@Tumblr and find out what I am watching! Usually I go to MovieOfTheDay@tumblr to find movies to watch. The place is hyper awesome!!!!!!! :)
Fight Club (1999)
I really love the subtle philosophies of life hinted in the movie, even though the life portrayed in this movie is delusional; suffocating; dark and complicated, the way the protagonist(s) think still very much match my principles.
For all I know, life is really all about fighting. We fight for the things we want, but in the end somehow, we are owned by the things we owned instead. We struggle, we suffocate, we are stressed, we can’t figure out what we really want to do even if we are going to die the next moment.
I don’t like it.
Replica of each other, the same old routine, the unchanged thinking… We complain, but we are still stuck in our lives, struggling to do something and yet nothing was done.
In a way, Fight Club reflects my feelings of how we should do something for ourselves; to give us a little more meaning to live on. It is not about the fights in Fight Club, it is about searching for one’s true self.
*SPOILERS AHEAD* Let the fight begins…
“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life.
Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong,
at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled.
Then the right set of dishes.
Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug.
Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
“With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything’s far away. Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy.”
“Welcome to Fight Club.
The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.
The second rule of Fight Club is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!
Third rule of Fight Club: Someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over.
Fourth rule: Only two guys to a fight.
Fifth rule: One fight at a time, fellas.
Sixth rule: No shirts, no shoes.
Seventh rule: Fights will go on as long as they have to.
And the eighth and final rule: If this is your first night at Fight Club you have to fight.”
— Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
“You met me at a very strange time in my life”
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
“This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.”
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
— Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
“Hitting bottom isn’t a weekend retreat. It’s not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!”
— Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
