However, Jack was not willing to live so quietly. So he suffers from chronic insomnia, which also seems to be an urban stress syndrome. As he says, he likes a comfortable home, buys everything that looks good to him, and furnishes his empty house. Go to work every day, listen to the boss yelling at him, occasionally go to see a psychiatrist, the doctor tells him that you must sleep naturally and refuse to give him sleeping pills.
When I have free time, I take various cancer auxiliary courses, listen to all the cancer patients tell their bleakness, and then hug and cry with them. It became a way for him to relieve stress and get a good night's sleep.
The intersection of life and death always allows those tired people to find their own place. Long-term insomnia brought him a tired physical state, never completely quiet sleep, and therefore, never completely awake and energetic. Always awake when it's time to go to sleep, and always weak when it's time to wake up.
Life must go on. In addition to the narrative of a certain state, all of this has also laid a solid foundation for the subsequent plot.
Mara's character seems more of a spring-like thing in this movie. When I first saw the movie, I always found it odd that Jack and Brad Pitt's Tyler never showed up together when Marla was there, which also set the stage for the movie's finale. .
What the movie keeps reminding us from the start is that Jack and Taylor shouldn't be in the same place at the same time, other than by themselves. It's just that unless we've watched the movie, we don't really know anything other than weird.
Helena Bonham Carter is one of the most notable highlights of the film, aside from the two male leads. It is unimaginable that she can perform in her very few scenes. In addition to the arrogant Brad Pitt and the restrained Edward Norton, perhaps the most impressive thing in this movie is this dark and crazy woman. Black eye shadow, rotten life, dark clothes, sunglasses and diffused smoke rings; what I can see on her is the prototype of the Japanese movie "NANA", similar to the enchanting "Black Dahlia" but more rotten. Many movies can find vague shadows in previous movies, and what Mara represents is a decadent and dark woman in a certain era; Jack's tired life is just a microcosm of the vain, ignorant and exhausted life of modern people; And Tyler is all arrogance and insolence combined.
When these three meet, the extremely dim and decadent taste is enough to make everyone go crazy.
This is a dark and fast-paced magical film, which is easy to be charmed by. The images are wild, the techniques are wild, the scenes are grotesque, the dark humor and spicy style are everywhere; the rapid camera changes are extremely cruel. All the members of Fight Club are in all corners of all walks of life, and whether it is the most distinctive Tyler or Jack, we can all see our shadow in them.
The possibility of all these being constructed lies in social aesthetic fatigue, a sense of crisis, repressed brutality and day-to-day mechanical labor. It's hard to watch this movie without being infected by it, because it captures some of the weakest emotions and most veiled intimacy in our hearts. Therefore, we are easily persuaded and then addicted.
Jack used Taylor's arrogance to build a great fighting kingdom. In fact, all this is just the result of his dark and cruel nature and the long-suppressed confusion. The desire to destroy everything and his introverted nature fought each other, and when he was unable to convince both, he fantasized himself into two people.
So many of the film's seemingly mundane scenes are ironic. For example, when Tyler and Marla upstairs are having sex frantically, Jack urinates in the same room downstairs, shaking his head and covering his ears with depression on his face. If it's two people living together, then there's nothing funny about it; but in this movie, it's the separation of the id and ego of the same person, which seems kind of funny. While having sex, I wandered downstairs to pee.
Jack blew up his beloved home with a home-made bomb without his knowledge, which meant a farewell to the old life deep in his heart. And he used his imagination to create a completely opposite Taylor for himself, to find Taylor's completely opposite home, dilapidated and dirty and messy home, and live with him, which means that everything he repressed will be dominates half of his life.
He could always fall asleep when he was with Tyler. Because when he goes to sleep, Tyler will wake up and do everything he really wants to do deep inside.
What we can tell is that Jack is a complete schizophrenic, and Tyler is just a composite of the most repressed and dark desires in his life. So everything he wants to do and dare not do, he will become Tyler to do. And when he was quiet, he would understand that all this was Tyler's actions, so, as a normal person, his good thoughts in his heart would try to stop everything Tyler did.
This kind of battle between good thoughts and demonic nature is essentially the battle between Jack's id and self, and it has also evolved into the last scene of the movie.
There is no God and Satan; in other words, God and Satan are inherently one. When the characters are too full, the movie has no way to control them, and the situation can only be allowed to develop. That's why at the end of this movie, what we don't see is that good finally triumphs over evil, and God finally redeems the world and banishes Satan. Because in a way, Tyler may be Jack's Satan; perhaps, he is also Jack's God.
Essentially, Jack is Tyler's flesh; Tyler is Jack's filthy desire. The id; or the ego. How should we decide which is good and which is evil? When this struggle between the id and the ego leads to a social behavior, perhaps, it is relatively easier to judge.
The final "plan of chaos". Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner. Everything went according to Taylor's plan. Jack's stopping becomes vain and powerless because Tyler knows all that Jack can do. All that seems to be within Taylor's plan.
At the end of the movie, although Jack stopped Tyler, he was still within Tyler's plan. He could stay out of the incident and not be arrested, but he could only watch Tyler's "big chaos plan" destructively blow up all the everything.
Whether it is the id or the ego, in this moment, everything is done.
Taylor's appearance and subsequent introduction carry a strong symbolic meaning. Taylor once said that the best raw material for making soap is actually human fat, and the discarded plastic surgery hospital for liposuction and weight loss is the best raw material production base. Sold to the original people. Everything keeps turning around.
That's probably what this movie is all about. Reincarnation and destiny: id, ego, even superego; nature, forbearance; subversion, frenzy; lost, exhausted and brutal. The film uses schizophrenic separation to create a possibility of grief, allowing the id and the ego to separate, live together, move forward together, create and hinder together.
Without this totally unexpected ending, the film would be relegated to mediocrity.
Who ever said that there is a Taylor in everyone. Just another angle, in fact, everyone is Jack. The id and the ego are actually inseparable from each other. And the debate between the id and the ego never stops when everyone is awake or asleep.
More often, what I don't know is whether Tyler is Jack's id, or Jack is Tyler's ego. These two things actually exist in a dialectical relationship with each other, and neither can be separated from the other.
I was thinking that if Floyd saw this movie, he would have been full of consolation and praise, and he would have been able to explain it clearly. In my opinion, Jack is the ego since the id is also the ego; Taylor is both the ego and the id.
Argue. In vain. In fact, everything will never stop.
As long as there are people, humanity, repression, desire, society, the world, and everything. This kind of stuff is always going on. It's just that we are not as arrogant as they are, we are not as happy as they are, we are not as depressed as they are, and we are not as strong as them.
Maybe one day, the self we can see is just an ordinary club member instead of Tyler or Jack, such as Bu.
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