Fight Club Ethics

Fight Club is very deep and intricate, and as such it is difficult to pinpoint two specific concepts to focus on for analysis, but I think deindividuation and the attraction theory of similarity are two theories vitally important to the film that should be addressed. The textbook describes deindividuation as “the reduced sense of individual identity accompanied by diminished self-regulation that comes over a person when he or she is in a large group” (Social Psychology, 64). Someone that is deindividuated in a group will feel a sense of anonymity as well as a diffusion of responsibility. Simply being in a large group creates in people arousal and a stimulus and sensory overload, and as they become less aware of themselves and more aware of their immediate environment they become more impulsive and responsive to behavioral cues. In essence people lose their inhibitions and as a group act impulsively, which by human nature often leads to violence.

Conformity is a major theme in Fight Club, and there are a number of specific scenes that display the rejection of it and characters falling victim to it, sometimes unbeknownst to them. The Narrator, our main character, is a complex individual. He fits into almost every textbook example of social psychology. He is a complete nutcase. In fact, he is so incredibly insane, that he creates an imaginary friend with whom he transforms himself into a different person, free from the bonds of society, free from conformity, free to change the way he lives. Or does he?

After the narrator has met Tyler Durden, this is when the chaos and destruction has begun. Tyler was always telling the narrator how to make dynamite, napalm, and other gases that could blow up. Tyler had created a fighting club and a working club that would help him break down civilization. At first, the narrator did not know how to handle it but then started to become involved. The narrator’s apartment blew up from the home made dynamite that Tyler had made. Soon after, the narrator had asked Tyler if he could move in with him. Men were always having bruises or scars on their faces from “Fight Club” and later on, men would show up at their front door wanting to come in to be apart of Project Mayhem. The narrator always had to deal the dirty work, meaning telling the guys if they were not the right fit. Tyler had handed out proposals to each member, which involved in human scarifies, stealing identify cards, or destroying private property. After being around Tyler so much, the narrator had started to agree with Tyler about destroying civilization, “I wanted the whole world to hit bottom” (Palahniuk 123). The narrator finally realized that there has been way too much chaos when he notices Tyler has been gone. The narrator starts questioning every man he sees and tries to chase after Tyler. Towards the end of the novel after the

During the film Antwone Fisher (Black, Haines, & Washington, 2002) the therapist who worked with Antwone seemed to have Antwone’s best interest at heart, but still managed to violate some ethical codes. One of the first violations that I noticed was when he tried to terminate therapy with Antwone after only three sessions. Whereas he initially informed Antwone that he was only required to see him for three sessions, as the sessions progressed it seemed obvious to me that Antwone may need more, and even asked to come back for a fourth session. According to the 2014 American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics, A. 11.c. Appropriate Termination, “Counselors terminate a counseling relationship when it becomes reasonably apparent that the client no longer needs assistance, is not likely to benefit, or is being harmed by continued counseling.” I think that the therapist trying to terminate therapy with Antwone after three sessions was an obvious violation of this ethics code as it was not in Antwone’s best interest, especially given how much distress it caused him.

This movie is a great example of social groups, leadership, culture, norms, society, nature and nurture, and social lives. This movie represents how the American culture chooses our social class in society. Some sociologists believed that lifestyle choices are an important influence on our social class position (Giddens, 209). Our class position is the way we dress, where we eat, where we sleep, and how we relax (Giddens,

this point, he has lost his friend, his job, his relationship with his spouse, and his house. Despite all of these things, he continues on. He reaches the climax of his change from a brain washed conformist to a justice seeking citizen when he seeks revenge on his fellow

The following work aims to take a closer look at cultures, leadership and paradigms in Columbia Pictures’ (1992) film; A Few Good Men. This film provides many examples of differing cultures as well as illustrating examples of leadership, management, and followership. Many lessons can be learned; standing up for what is right and standing up for what you believe in are apparent, as well as leaders not always making the best decisions. At the end of the day, one must be at peace with the direction of their own moral compass and actions.

One of the first major problems addressed in Fight Club is toxic masculinity, and the fear of seeming feminine. Bob encapsulates this problem perfectly through both backstory and physical appearance. The reader is first introduced to Bob with a distinct quote: “Bob’s big arms were closed around me to hold

Mcdonalds, the latest style, or some random toiletries, it doesn't matter what it is we’ve all bought some pointless nonsense at some point. I’s that our American dream? To mindlessly spend money on junk we don’t need to satisfy urges we don’t want? That is our unknown narrator’s plight in the grotesque satire that is the masterpiece of Fight Club. First, what is Satire? It’s much more than a scene from Snl, it is a story driven joke meant to push in an idea in a comical way. But fight club is just a misogynistic tale about a whole bunch of man-children terrorists beating eachother up just because they lost themselves somewhere along the path. No, Fight Club is so much more than that. Fight Club is a satire about The pointless spending surrounding American economy, about social expectations and the way everyone else thinks you should be, It’s also a satire on healthy social relationships and a distorted view of brotherhood.

David Flincher's movie, Fight Club, shows how consumerism has caused the emasculation of the modern male and reveals a tale of liberation from a corporate controlled society. Society's most common model of typical man is filthy, violent, unintelligent, immature, sexist, sex hungry, and fundamentally a caveman. In essence Tyler Durden, is the symbolic model for a man. He is strong enough to withstand from society's influences and his beliefs to remain in tact. Jack, the narrator, on the other hand is the opposite. He is a weak, squeamish, skinny man who has not been able to withstand society's influence; therefore, he is the Ikea fetish. Unlike Tyler, Jack is weak minded. Both Jack and Tyler are polar opposite models of

Good Will Hunting is a movie about a troubled young man abandoned by his parents only to be severely abused by the foster parents entrusted to care for him. Due to his tormented childhood he finds himself a young man unable to trust most people besides a few close friends. His prospects for a future out of dead end jobs, in his poverty stricken neighborhood, seem slim. Despite being a natural gifted mathematical genius, Will finds himself frequently involved with the law. It is while working at a janitorial position at MIT that a Field’s Medal winning professor discovers Will’s mathematical talent. When Will finds himself again in court, it is here where the professor bails him out. Upon release from jail and with the stipulation of receiving counseling, and holding himself accountable to the professor, Will

Fight Club is a movie based a man deemed “Jack”. He could be any man in the working class, that lives and ordinary life. The movie starts out giving an overview of his life, which consisted of a repeat of flights and cubicles. He is basically to the point of break when he takes another business flight and meets a man that calls himself Tyler Durdan. They instantly become friends and after an unfortunate explosion in “jack’s” apartment, he moves in with Tyler. One night after last call at a local bar, Jack and Tyler start fighting in the parking lot for no reason other than essentially to feel free and do something other than the norm. Later in the film this bar-back fight turns into a club run by the both of the men, or so it seems. At the

From the reading of book More Than a Movie: Ethics in Entertainment, the nine hot buttons of violence are choice of perpetrator, choice of victim, presence of consequences, rewards and punishments, the reason for the violence, the presence of weapons, realism, use of humor, and prolonged exposure. And the movie I choice to analyze with these nine buttons is The Thing from 1982

The Fight Club, then, is a way which men can express their angst in a much more masculine, albeit sadomasochistic, way.

Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk has encircled within it, a search for identity and meaning being traversed in different forms throughout the novel. Notably when it comes to the character development of the unnamed narrator. The first time the readers are introduced to the narrator, he has practically no sense of purpose in his life, including having no sense of his personal identity. He falsely claims to have illnesses along with diseases, for the sole purpose of creating a feeling of connection towards others around him. As the novel progresses, the narrator begins to develop an idea of who he is due to the hardships he endures, specially in regards to Tyler Durden. Tyler Durden is intuitively and subconsciously brought forth into the narrator’s world by the narrator for the sake of assisting the narrator in the search for his identity. Tyler brings a new viewpoint and an odd perspective into the narrator’s life which helps him unearth what he really wants out of his life. The negative ramification endured by the narrator due to Tyler's actions ruins his life, but in a way that allows the narrator to find a sense of admiration for his traditionalist and conventionalist identity at the start of the novel as well as help him to uncover how he wants to live his life.