Marxist Film Paper In the popular 1999 film Fight Club, the narrator is a struggling middle class worker that suffers from insomnia. In hopes to find a way to cure his insomnia, he attends various support groups and finds that this helps him emotionally and continues to go until he encounters a problem. Marla, a woman who also attends the support groups for similar reasons of those of the narrator, is not allowing him to go to the same support groups as him therefore he must find another way to change up his dull and boring everyday life. When he gets on a plane to leave, he meets Tyler, a man who he eventually ends up creating a “fight club” with. A variety of sociological factors are seen throughout the film including conflict theory, counter culture, dominant ideology, narcotizing dysfunction and many more of Marx’s theories. …show more content…
Marx believed that the factory was the center of conflict between workers and owners. He also believed that the owners had dominance over the workers due to the economic system and social systems and that they had different interests. (Schaefer, 11) In the film, this is seen because the narrator himself lives in a society where the social classes are a conflict. Also the narrator in the film suffers from alienation because he has no emotional connection with his coworkers and society in general. This again makes his life boring, dull and meaningless due to the fact he does not find fulfillment in anything he does until “fight club” comes along. Then a brotherhood among the members is formed, which helps them not be alienated from society