Does fight club the film relate to belonging?

Answer 1

yes of causee

David Fincher's Fight Club is a fable about postmodern consumer society, loss of masculine identity amongst male gray-collar workers and the social stratification created by our materialistic civilization. This suggests that belonging is not a basic human need, rather a possible path to an individual's self-actualization, where different paths offer different conclusions.

Fincher demonstrates these aspects in the relationship between the narrator and his alter ego, as this relationship acts as an incitation for the changes he undergoes during the film. The narrator expresses in the IKEA montage: "Like everyone else, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct. If I saw something like clever coffee table sin in the shape of a ying yang, I had to have it", depicting a world of consumerism and lifeless existence.

The persona's creation of Tyler is symbolic of consumerism, as Tyler is a want, rather than a need. As a result, the persona and so too the genderless men find self in the fight clubs, created by the genius of Tyler, ultimately becoming "masculated" and forming an identity.

Tyler demonstrates qualities of imagination and independence in many qualities. As the highly creative and self actualised id, and his understanding of this consumer, emotionally sterile world does not nourish, but destroy the individuals understanding of self, Tyler forms "project mayhem", in an attempt to manipulate people's desire to belong, ultimately to serve "the greater good". The anarchistic bifurcated character of Tyler is manipulative of the emasculated individuals, "a generation of men raised by women", resulting them in finding self in the fight clubs.

Like Jacques, Tyler is an observer as he explains: " We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession". In order to "serve the greater good", he nourishes the collectives masculine needs, through the establishment of "project mayhem", ultimately a revolutionary gesture of defiance against the modern consumer, dictating a world of "masculation"