"Fight Club"

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This paper examines the film, "Fight Club", (David Fincher), based upon the book with the same title by Chuck Palahniuk. The paper examines how the main character, Edward Norton, unwittingly creates for himself an alter ego in the form of Tyler Durden. Tyler is everything that Ed is afraid of being but wishes desperately to become. This eventually happens, with catastrophic consequences. The paper shows, however, that the question is what exactly Ed was searching for, why he created Tyler, and whether he was eventually successful in his psychological journey.

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"Fincher for example suggests that the film depicts the self-destructive nature of caring for others. Caring for others, according to Fincher, requires the destruction of the self's most vital part, which is what happens to Norton. I however do not entirely agree with this assessment. Norton does care for others in the film, but only briefly during his support group phase. Caring for others is not his primary goal. The primary theme of the film is Edward's journey towards finding the truth in himself that cannot be touched by the superficial paradigms of society."

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