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“Like everyone else, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct. If I saw something clever like the coffee table in the shape of a yin and yang,I had to have it. I would flip through catalogs and wonder, “What kind of dining set defines me as a person?”
Consumerism and "Fight Club"
OUTLINE
- Why I chose that movie
- Summary
- Fight Club and Consumerism
- The Relevance to Class Topics
- Scene from the Movie
Fight Club is one of the most popular movies in the movie history and it is watched by over millions. Moreover, it is a cult film and it is in the top ten in the IMDB list.
“We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
The Summary
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”
The Office Scene
Some quotes from Fight Club
Fight Club and Consumerism
- Start to feel alone
- Try to find an identity
- Search for love
- Find himself as an identity
- Get rid of the Consumerism's addictions
- Become someone completely different
REFERENCES
Fight Club and Consumerism
- Consumerism is defined "the state of an advanced industrial society in which a lot of goods are bought and sold" by the Cambridge Dictionaries.
- In Fight Club, Narrator (Edward Norton) doe not have name but he has an IKEA Catalogue in his house and the only purpose of him is decorating his house with the good which he has found in that catalogue.
“The things you own, end up owning you.”
- http://colleenscanlon.weebly.com/fight-club-and-consumerism.html
- http://www.studymode.com/essays/Fight-Club-Consumerism-87162.html
- http://tr.scribd.com/doc/91379614/Anti-Capitalism-in-Fight-Club
- http://indranikopal.blogspot.com.tr/2009/10/tyler-durdens-anti-consumerism-quotes.html