Sociological Movie Review – Fight Club Submitted for SOCI 1001B 7 October, 2015 Vishahan Thilagakumar 100994856 TA: Mira Knox Instructor: Priscillia Lefebvre Fight Club - Sociological Movie Review Fight Club is a movie involving a man, played by Edward Norton (Although the name of the character isn’t mentioned, but referred to in the credits as The Narrator), living in a very systematic, civilized and repetitive world, who snaps and ends up being forced to abandon everything he has when he meets Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, his split personality who is the exact opposite of the main protagonist and the people he is surrounded by.…
The Breakfast Club is a well-known 1980’s movie directed by John Hughes. It follows five teenagers who end up in detention on Saturday due to their actions during the school week. Each of these teenagers come from a different social group and immediately judge one another but after getting to know one another they realize that they are more similar than they first thought. Each character in this film commits deviant behaviors. A deviant behavior is a behavior that/….…
The misunderstanding and miscommunication between mother and daughter creates numerous cultural and generational differences. Both the St. Clair’s and Hsu’s are facing marriage problems, which was formed by American circumstances, which the daughters had learned (cultural difference). The Woo and Jong families are facing different issues. The marriage problems have been created by the views of the daughters. Both Rose Hsu Jordan and Lena St. Clair are facing marriage problems.…
The book was a very interesting and informational read. The main character’s name is Sudhir, who was a student at the University of Chicago. Sudhir was a sociology student who wanted to research the projects and find out about the harsh conditions the people there deal with. The first time he goes looking for information he stumbles upon a high-rise building that seems to be deserted. Sudhir soon finds out that the building is in fact filled with people.…
As Sheriff John Wydell takes aim at the Firefly's demonic abode ready to shoot whoever comes in his view the family takes precaution with a few things up their own sleeves. The Firefly family has armor of steel masks and vests, along with firearms throughout the family farmhouse. The Firefly family consists of Mama Firefly (Leslie Easterbrook), Otis Driftwood (Bill Moseley), Tiny (Matthew McGrogry), Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), and Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie) pull off a great performance throughout the whole film. Mama Firefly is a mom who will stop at nothing to keep her family together which is what causes her to get captured by the sheriff and taken into custody. You can see the fury wash over Sheriff Wydell's face as he interrogates Mama Firefly in a damp solid room when she refuses to give up her family's whereabouts.…
For my film analysis, I chose to analyze the movie “The Outsiders” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on the novel “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton. In this movie, a gang of outcasts from the north side of town called the Greasers are always fighting against a rival group called the Socials, who are the rich jocks from the south side of town. The story follows two young Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, who aren’t like the others. These two see that fighting is pointless, but it’s just the way they live their life. The two boys get into a fight with some Socials and end up killing one.…
The Unforeseen Journey of a Karate Master Joseph Campbell, an american mythologist, discovered the many common patterns that ran through the hero’s myths and stories around the world. The many years that Joseph Campbell had researched this topic, he noticed that most and almost every hero's story contained a common pattern , even in diverse cultures. A story that showed this pattern was the movie The Karate Kid. The movie The Karate Kid cataloged the journey of Shao Dre who is learning the basics of karate as well as gaining the dignity that karate embraces. Dre picks up this through the training of his instructor, Mr Han, who taught him the exceptional uses of karate as well as the damages it result in.…
In the books The Outsiders and The Lord of the Flies, Hinton’s and Golding’s approaches to the themes of challenges, choices, conformity all contrast. For example, in The Outsiders, Hinton’s approach to challenges contrast Golding’s plot and the way they affect the story. One of the challenges Ponyboy faces is the fact that his parents are dead and his oldest brother, Darry, is supporting the family. On page 3, Ponyboy says, “Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave.” (Hinton 3).…
A Greater Sense of Identity The novel Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, tells a story about two men bringing a societal revolution and new era of self-identity. The men in this novel reject to conform to society’s norms and attempt to strip away the unnecessary parts of their lives and discover their true selves. Ultimately, the lives of many revolve around their status and properties, characters achieve a new sense of identity and purpose with the new relationships with themselves, Tyler Durden and Fight Club.…
Biographies have existed for centuries, in which they describe the life and story of a person who once lived. Normally, these are written in the form of a book. However, in today’s time, many are interpreted into a different form of media, in which several films nowadays are those of a biopic, a biographical film. “Straight Outta Compton” is a biopic from 2015 that talks about the career of the hip-hop artists of NWA, Niggas with Attitude- Ice Cube, Easy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, and DJ Yella. The release of the film “Straight Outta Compton” allowed many different depictions and interpretations to arise, focusing on its culture and music.…
INTRODUCTION The act of crime is brought about by breaking the law enforced by the government thus, there is violation of rights entitled to individuals and disruptions of well-being (Brown et al. 2013: 20). The duty of a law enforcement officer is to eradicate crime in a society, it’s to promote peace and ensure safety within a society. Additionally, law enforcement officers are normally seen as law abiding citizens who are tasked with implementing the laws at all jurisdictional levels (Otu 2006: 18). At the same time, some law enforcement officers see themselves as crime fighters, while others consider themselves helpers of those who cannot help themselves.…
They see that they are unsatisfied when trying to achieve the male American dream and have no gratification in their lives. Fight Club members see that their job does not define them but often in the male American dream, a man’s job is his value. Through the constant pressure to conform to society’s standards, the male loses his true identity and becomes a slave to working for the male American dream, giving him no sense of self, worth or pride therefore losing masculinity and identity by only conforming to what everyone else does and expects. The narrator exemplifies this through his upscale condo with all matching furniture sets from Ikea (Fight Club). The narrator states, “I had it all.…
Yet unlike in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde where Mr. Jekyll is being confined, Fight Club shows The Narrator behavior to be considered insane and all over the place. When the Narrator says “Tyler isn’t here. Tyler went away. Tyler’s gone” (Fight Club), Marla gives a very confused face towards the Narrator thinking that he is insane. Marla knows that the Narrator is Tyler, yet the Narrator does not.…
Fight Club is a movie that follows the daily life of the main protagonist. Actor Edward Norton plays the unnamed protagonist who is commonly just known as the “Narrator”. The narrator is plagued by powerful insomnia however he is refused any real medical attention. His doctor instead directs him toward a cancer support group so he can realize just how small his suffering is compared to others. The narrator is embraced within the support group as they believe he also suffers from cancer.…
The characters in fight club exist in a world in which, according to Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt), they are “the middle children of history... [with] no purpose or place.” (Fincher, 1999). It is in fight club and its violence that the men find their purpose. In this way, the club functions as a type of religion, with its own philosophy in which “acts of (re)embodiment and critical consciousness form an entity that is indissoluble” (Gronstad, 13).…