Fight Club Quotation #1

Marla Singer: why do you do it (coming to support groups for sick people)?

The Narrator: I don't know, when people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you instead of just...

Marla Singer: instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.


   The narrator suffers from insomnia and starts to attend gatherings for sick people. He goes to meetings for people with testicular cancer, alcohol addiction, and tuberculosis pretending to be one of the victims, and finds himself being relaxed and that he could sleep again. So he becomes addicted to these support groups. Then, Marla Singer appears and bothers the narrator like "the little scratch on his roof of his mouth that would heal if only he could stop tonguing it, but he cant." The narrator feels as if his own secret shelter has been exposed by his enemy.

    So why are both the narrator and Marla Singer obsessed with these support groups for dying people? People are selfish and really like to express themselves more than anything else. This is a natural thing. In order to survive in this competitive world, we have to be selfish. I mean, we must commercialize ourselves to jobs to get a job. This is why everyone likes to talk about themselves more than to actually listen to what others have to say. When my friend comes to me and asks something like "hey man, I'm meeting this girl tonight and what do you think I should talk about?" I say, "man, you don't have to talk about anything, just listen and respond to what she says." I say this because everyone likes to talk about themselves and be listened. And this is why the narrator and Marla attend the meetings for the sick every night. No one outside listens to them. No one really cares about the narrator's pain from insomnia or any other kind of agony he feels. People who really listen to them are the ones who suffer enormous pain themselves and have no hopes for the future.

  I'm not saying that there isn't anyone around us who truly feels and cares what we say, but I think our favorite conversation topic has been and will always be ourselves.

P.S. I could be worng.. and you guys might disagree.. but these are just my own thoughts on the scene. 

  

Intro

   

   When someone asks me to name one great movie that sticks in my mind, I say, without hesitation, Fight Club. Fight Club is full of interesting philosophical ideas and makes us deeply think about ourselves. It shows how a person's invariable life in the materialistic world full of dissatisfaction degenerates his mental stability. Fight Club still punches me in the face and tells me that I must wake up and live a life for myself, not for others. It tells me never to let the fear of what others think of me stop me from achieving what I truly want. No other movie has yet conveyed so many influential messages about the true inner freedom. Not only that, but also its thrills, competitive action scenes, and especially the characters' inspiring speeches surely dragged my attention.

   In this blog, I would like to share with you some of my favorite quotations from Fight Club and talk about how they affected me to change my view towards life and spiritual freedom.

   If you have not seen the movie yet, do not just read the plot summary and pretend like you know what really is going on. Fight Club inspires you to deeply think about yourself and the world you are involved in. I highly recommend that you actually watch the film. However, if you are too lazy to appreciate the movie and choose to keep on living a life full of discontent, you can just click the X button in the upper right corner of your screen and get out of my blog. If not, you are more than welcome to share your thoughts.