Fight Club

When thinking about a movie and relating it to Marxism I thought about one of my favorite movies, Fight Club. Marx predicts that the lower class will start a revolution against the upper class to end capitalism. Well in the movie, besides they’re being a weird twist about Ed Norton’s character he basically formed his own group. The group consisted of lower class individuals who participated in this club every week and then formed into a revolutionary group against the upper class. They were radicals who did their deeds by and means necessary. Basically doing things such as setting up big plans blowing up big company buildings to erase people’s debt. Their goal was to better average peoples lives because the main character was mad at the world and created this character within him self. He started revolutionary groups throughout the whole country. In the end he accepted him self and the revolution continued with the movie ending with the group blowing up big credit card infested buildings. Other than the whole revolutionary group, Brad Pitt’s character (Ed Norton’s other half) was a man who questioned life. I remember particularly one scene in the movie where I believe he went into an Asian deli, basically took the employee outside and put a gun to his head. He put the gun to his head, took his ID and asked him what he really wanted to do in his life, the man said art. Brad Pitt’s character basically told him screw the system where you have to work and follow what you really want to do. In a Marxist idea, we are stuck in our economic class which prevents us from doing what we want to do because we have to work to live, and that’s what we are “told” to do. We are prevented from moving up because of the class we were born into.