Fight Club
This film Fight Club by David Fincher is a great movie exhibiting the way your ID and Ego play in your life on an every day basis. This movie kind of took that to an extreme though. The 'Narrator' Ed Norton is an everyday guy stuck in the same boring life and everyday routine with his white collar job that he hates so much. He is tired of this life and begins to stay up all night like an insomniac not being able to sleep days after days. Norton starts attending support meetings for people with all kinds of different medical problems. He enjoys them because he can cry and be himself in them so he makes this a regular thing. These meetings and him being able to cry also lets him sleep at night, like a baby. He notices another faker though. This newcomer all of a sudden attending all the weird and wacky support groups hes going to makes Norton feels uncomfortable. He is intimidated by her and gets really frustrated with the fact that her being there restricts i'm from being himself such as things like crying and letting his emotions out. He takes a bit of time to confront her because he really is dreading it. Once he does they lay everything out straight. Although Norton had a reason for going to these meetings, she on the other hand does not. She is an extremely heavy smoker by the way. By the amounts of cigarette she smokes you ask yourself how is she even still alive. The next character you meet is Tyler Durben (Brad Pitt). The soap maker. Tyler Durben is a cool laid back kind of 'go with the flow' type of guy but he fights for sake of reaching rock bottom, so when he does so he can finally be free.
Characters that are driven by the Id in this film would defiantly be Brad Pitt. His character does nothing but please himself. He is wild, and laid back all at the same time. He does what he wants and when he wants. He is a man driven by his wants and needs. He is careless and doesn't have a care in the world if him or someone else gets hurt. Although his friend Norton tells him things to slow tings down, and stop because some of the things Pitt tries to do he still always finds a good purpose for his bad doings. Maybe the message won't be good or obvious to some viewers but that's really up to you to decide whether what he does is worth the whole "people should appreciate life more" thing.
The Ego on the other hand is kind of what makes you have like common sense and its like having natural born manners you could even say. The ego is a way to fore fill your needs with manners. We're not animals so we can't just go up to someone who has something we want and snatch it from them. Norton, or the "Narrator" is defiantly the ego in this film. He even like I said before tries to stop Pitt from doing very cruel things. Norton is polite in the sense that he doesn't go around smashing cars, and holding convenient store cashiers to gun point. Although it it Pitt doing all these things Norton is still there.
The both of them together side by side in this movie you get a sense of good and bad. They're complete opposites. Them being friends shows the id and ego interacting all the time. Since I know that the whole time Pitt and Norton were all one character there is defiantly a huge liking to death. Not only are the two characters combined crazy and dangerous but he also begins to grow feeling for Marla. Someone not afraid of death someone completely okay with dying at any second. The two of them (which is one person) enjoy fighting and getting hurt. They like the thought of pain in a way. Its weird because they endure so much physical violence you just assume they literally like it because of how much it frequently happens throughout the movie. They are fascinated by death and not the least bit scared. Although his ego side shows a little bit of fear but his id always takes over.
Overall I liked this film because its not just about violence and fighting I got the sense that you shouldn't take life for granted and enjoy the little things. Material things aren't worth everything. Personally I got the message but who knows if other viewers interpreted it the same way. There are many different ways you could go with this film. I just think the film kind of tells you that every day is a gift, and its okay to hit rock bottom, its okay to lose.
Ed Norton, the "Narrator" is a character who represents all three. The Id, Ego, and Super Ego
Characters that are driven by the Id in this film would defiantly be Brad Pitt. His character does nothing but please himself. He is wild, and laid back all at the same time. He does what he wants and when he wants. He is a man driven by his wants and needs. He is careless and doesn't have a care in the world if him or someone else gets hurt. Although his friend Norton tells him things to slow tings down, and stop because some of the things Pitt tries to do he still always finds a good purpose for his bad doings. Maybe the message won't be good or obvious to some viewers but that's really up to you to decide whether what he does is worth the whole "people should appreciate life more" thing.
The Ego on the other hand is kind of what makes you have like common sense and its like having natural born manners you could even say. The ego is a way to fore fill your needs with manners. We're not animals so we can't just go up to someone who has something we want and snatch it from them. Norton, or the "Narrator" is defiantly the ego in this film. He even like I said before tries to stop Pitt from doing very cruel things. Norton is polite in the sense that he doesn't go around smashing cars, and holding convenient store cashiers to gun point. Although it it Pitt doing all these things Norton is still there.
The both of them together side by side in this movie you get a sense of good and bad. They're complete opposites. Them being friends shows the id and ego interacting all the time. Since I know that the whole time Pitt and Norton were all one character there is defiantly a huge liking to death. Not only are the two characters combined crazy and dangerous but he also begins to grow feeling for Marla. Someone not afraid of death someone completely okay with dying at any second. The two of them (which is one person) enjoy fighting and getting hurt. They like the thought of pain in a way. Its weird because they endure so much physical violence you just assume they literally like it because of how much it frequently happens throughout the movie. They are fascinated by death and not the least bit scared. Although his ego side shows a little bit of fear but his id always takes over.
Overall I liked this film because its not just about violence and fighting I got the sense that you shouldn't take life for granted and enjoy the little things. Material things aren't worth everything. Personally I got the message but who knows if other viewers interpreted it the same way. There are many different ways you could go with this film. I just think the film kind of tells you that every day is a gift, and its okay to hit rock bottom, its okay to lose.
Ed Norton, the "Narrator" is a character who represents all three. The Id, Ego, and Super Ego
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