Fight Club A Narrative Analysis - 1556 Words

Barsam and Monahan define a narrative as, â€Å"A cinematic structure in which content is selected and arranged in a cause-and-effect sequence of events occurring over time† (553). David Fincher’s Fight Club uses a very unique narrative mode in that the whole film is self-narrated by the unnamed main character and has one of the best surprise endings in this writer’s opinion. This makes the film a prime specimen to be broken apart for further narrative analysis. The film starts out with the nameless narrator played by Edward Norton in a nameless city. The narrator, stuck in a dead-end white collar job, suffers from insomnia and is told he can’t receive medication. This paints Norton’s character as someone who is stuck, without any visible†¦show more content†¦After a quick plot device of the narrator’s apartment exploding he meets up with Durden and asks to stay with him. Durden accepts, but as they leave the bar he asks the narrator to hit him. This ends up in a friendly fist fight (if there ever was one) between the two which ends up being a sport between the two. These fights gain attention and eventually move into the bar’s basement where the event is appropriately dubbed Fight Club. Fight Club starts as a way for ordinary men to let out their frustrations and anger do to their mediocre lives. In the club a man is only worth what he is made of. It doesn’t matter how rich they are or what kind of life they lead, just how strong they are both in body and mind. Throughout the film Tyler very strongly supports the idea of anti-consumerism and it permeates into the club itself. Eventually fight club, and its ideals, spread throughout the country. Different sects sprouting up in every city gives Durden the ability to start something much bigger that he had planned. And so Project Mayhem is born. 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