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renots · 06-15-2002, 07:41 AM

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Books - meditation on characters/symbols

Movies - seeing and hearing, but not in reality, or so we think

Wizard of OZ - Both a book and a movie but not the same thing

Se7en - Walked out in 30 minutes on the theatrical run but did appreciate it when I saw the whole thing on LaserDisc

[following this thread' use of uncommon listing systems]

M) Blowing up Architecture certainly makes people think. nuff said

ô) One meta~message of the flick that I perceived was that normal life in the Edwards Norton's character's world was so dull and distasteful that his imagination, unfed by his initial real world experience, pushed him in such a direction contrary to his normative persona that the only way he could maintain relative[and very relative in the course of the movie] sanity was to split off his more extreme actions into Tyler and thus create a world his psyche could tolerate"All the things you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you'd like to fuck. I am smart capable and most importantly, I am free, in all the ways that you're not".

Ü) The whole movie appears to be a flashback the Narrator is having from the moment he is having a gun stuffed his mouth, you know the whole life-flying-before-your-eyes-at-what-appears-to-be-the-end-of-life-as-we-know-it. He is racing through his brain cells[title credits] attempting to grasp how he came to be in this moment{i.e. gun in the mouth}

&#9570)Life as the Narrator SUCKED["Look, no one takes this more seriously than me! That condo was my life, okay? I loved every stick of furniture in that place"]

&#8801) Life in general before Tyler/Narrator's revolution sucked. Personified by the use of human fat based soap, human eating human{or at least scrubbing with human}["If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one"]

x) So much so that he is able to recruit most of the US's operations personel into a mythic Dune-like movement [Members of Fight Club: [Chanting] "His name is Robert Paulsen"]

_) Narrator spent 2 much time on the Internet and lost his mind{but in a good way}["Did you know that by mixing equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate you can make napalm?"]

{puts on asbestos~free flame retardant suit and presses Submit Reply}

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06-15-2002, 07:41 AM	#14 (permalink)
renots Actor Join Date: May 2002 Location: Sunny Las Vegas	Fight Club and Reality? Humble Opinions Follow Books - meditation on characters/symbols Movies - seeing and hearing, but not in reality, or so we think Wizard of OZ - Both a book and a movie but not the same thing Se7en - Walked out in 30 minutes on the theatrical run but did appreciate it when I saw the whole thing on LaserDisc [following this thread' use of uncommon listing systems] M) Blowing up Architecture certainly makes people think. nuff said ô) One meta~message of the flick that I perceived was that normal life in the Edwards Norton's character's world was so dull and distasteful that his imagination, unfed by his initial real world experience, pushed him in such a direction contrary to his normative persona that the only way he could maintain relative[and very relative in the course of the movie] sanity was to split off his more extreme actions into Tyler and thus create a world his psyche could tolerate"All the things you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you'd like to fuck. I am smart capable and most importantly, I am free, in all the ways that you're not". Ü) The whole movie appears to be a flashback the Narrator is having from the moment he is having a gun stuffed his mouth, you know the whole life-flying-before-your-eyes-at-what-appears-to-be-the-end-of-life-as-we-know-it. He is racing through his brain cells[title credits] attempting to grasp how he came to be in this moment{i.e. gun in the mouth} &#9570)Life as the Narrator SUCKED["Look, no one takes this more seriously than me! That condo was my life, okay? I loved every stick of furniture in that place"] &#8801) Life in general before Tyler/Narrator's revolution sucked. Personified by the use of human fat based soap, human eating human{or at least scrubbing with human}["If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one"] x) So much so that he is able to recruit most of the US's operations personel into a mythic Dune-like movement [Members of Fight Club: [Chanting] "His name is Robert Paulsen"] _) Narrator spent 2 much time on the Internet and lost his mind{but in a good way}["Did you know that by mixing equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate you can make napalm?"] {puts on asbestos~free flame retardant suit and presses Submit Reply} ;0) Last edited by renots : 06-15-2002 at 08:30 AM.