" The things you own end up owning you." A line from the movie Fight Club spoken by Tyler Durden, a character made up in the mind of the unnamed narrator in an attempt to escape from his dreary existence. A Postmodern film in respect to its rejection of society as a whole and every aspect of it.
(Robert Phares on YouTube, from Fight Club)
The clip demonstrates the anti-consumerist beliefs that are layered within Fight Club. The goal in the plot of Fight Club is the destruction of everyday society. To do this they attack culture through violence. This is one of the purest examples of how Postmodernism leads to destruction. In their quest to negate the society that led to the awe striking destruction of WW II, they are blinded by their self-righteous goal and inevitably create destruction themselves. This is evident through the other pieces as well in which in an attempt to reject society they created destruction of the ideals, beauty, logic, and finally society, they sought to reject.
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