fight club


Subject: fight club
From: David Alan Beck (dabeck@iupui.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 29 1999 - 19:05:38 EST


This semester as I was teaching The Moviegoer, I was emphasizing the point
that we tend to be more alive during a crisis, etc. (Binx wounded, Kate in
the auto accident) A few of my students asked if I had seen Fight
Club. Of course the answer was no (because the only movies I seem to hit
anymore are ones like Toy Story Pt. 2 and Star Wars, etc.). But some of
the students said that I must see it, because it focused on the malaise
and "everydayness" of contemporary life.

Being a boxing fan, I wanted to see it anyway. To make a long story
short(er), I was grading final exams the other day and, as a motivator,
said to myself that if I could get all of them graded by 3:00, I would
treat myself to a discount movie (knowing that Fight Club was playing for
$2).

I went to see it and thought that, yeah, my students were right: it is
very percean in a weird kind of way. While it is not for the squeamish, I
highly recommend it (despite the blood and violence). At the risk of
sounding anachornistic, I believe that it is more of (dare I say it) a
man's movie, though two of the students who recommended it to me were
females (did Brad Pitt have something to do with their enthusiasm?.)

Anyway, while we are awaiting the science/percean perspective, if anyone
is familiar with the movie or wants to hear a percean view of it, let me
know (not that I can give a definitive percean view, but can certainly
attempt it).

Hope everyone had a great Christmas. BTW, did anyone else have trouble
opening Nikki's "gift?" I was looking forward to reading it, but couldn't
open the attachment. Any suggestions?

David Beck

"The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
 Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless."
                                - T. S. Eliot
                            from "East Coker"



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