Fight Club

Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) stated: "I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. 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 narrator, for all intent and purpose is called Jack (Edward Norton), an everyday man who works in corporate America and is trying to find himself. Like the narrator, the other men in the movie are searching for meaning in their lives. Their jobs do not satisfy them, nor do they test them enough to make them feel that they are growing as individuals. Their existences become constant, and they feel irrelevant. As consumers their only true worth is how much they can spend in the never-ending pursuit of products. Jack meets Tyler who is everything Jack wants to be. I believe many men are still looking for who they are and who they want to be. Jack's identity is born from the material things that he buys. Tyler stated that men are "a generation raised by women." The movie argues that men are growing more feminine and losing touch with their masculinity. Thus making him a product of consumerism which entails that Jack is more feminine then he is masculine. Through joining Fight Club, the fighting allows them to feel alive and to connect with a sense of masculinity that they do not find in the modern world.