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Absurd confrontation in the 1999 film Fight Club

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Absurd confrontation in the 1999 film Fight Club

My experiences with a confrontation with absurd are expressed in the 1999 film, the

Fight Club, alongside Albert Camus' silence of the world or rather the failure of logical reason.

In the film, an anonymous narrator named Edward Norton pays a visit to a support group

intending to suppress his psychological state and unrest. When he happens to meet Marla, a

different anonymous person attended the same function. The narrator is dragged into a nightclub

at the underground and other dubious schemes. A war over power and love ensues, and Camus'

absurd involving the "total failure of reason" manifests when the narrator becomes conscious of

the hidden agenda behind Tyler's fight club. Without a substantially logical reason, the narrator

must first admit that Tyler may be different from whom he claims to be. The absurd manifested

through the Fight Club's protagonist is forced by the innate ego within himself into the conscious

reality of his blatant mortal state, tying him up in a conflict between himself and the world

(Meditz & Hamenstädt., 2019). The protagonist presents the political dimensions of Camus’

absurdity.

The experience that entirely changed my mind was the nonsensical fight, given that all

the parties were strange and nameless. The experience played a role in making me learn that the

best way to comprehend expressions in literature and films is to perceive them from the

perspectives of Camus' philosophy and the absurd human condition; the situation is presented in

the movie when the script author portrays all the parties involved as strange to the other and the

silence of the world around the Fight Club underground. My mind changed on how I used to

define "absurd" in readings and on the same note, learned that the term might be best described

as a ridiculous or illogical condition; Camus' description of total failure of reason. Even though I

had lived to think that the philosophy manifested in most films is associated with the ordinary
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usage, watching The Fight Club made me understand the sensual usage from the philosophical

perspectives of the words that it needs to be interpreted as one of the many ways to describe

various aspects that influence current conditions and situations that humans face. I have learned

the modern human's thirst to know things, better comprehend things, and finally triumph over

life, film, and literature problems.

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References

Meditz, M., & Hamenstädt, U. (2019). Empire, Multitude, and the Fight Club. The Interplay

Between Political Theory and Movies (pp. 235-247). Springer, Cham.