What’s
your identity? Do you have one? This film to me was about finding out if you
even have an identity. It touched bases on a world that is defined on what you
wear, and materialistic values and views. Are we really happy, or are we happy
because THEY told us were happy. Do we feel validated by name brand clothes? Do
we like what we like because we were told we like it? There is a conflict in us
today about our individuality. We live in a world where being a true individual is suppressed and looked
down upon. The film shows that but there is a deeper underlying level of this.
In the film people who are stuck in their lives searching for an identity. They
find Tyler and follow him into project mayhem. Tyler to me effectively became
like a Shepherd. The people searching for an identity became like
lost sheep being herded
by Tyler. They thought they
found something concrete and real but in the end they were easily lead showing
no sense of self awareness and or individualism. That is something we face today still. We are
looking and trying to define ourselves in material possession. Tyler says in the
film "it’s only when we've lost everything, are we free to do
anything." That could hold true, except no one wants to lose everything. I
believe people would rather, knowingly, live with conflicting identity issue
rather than take a chance and truly find themselves. We are comfortable being
similar to everyone, and why wouldn’t we be. You are criticized and outcast for
going against the grain. We are taught to stay inside the lines and allow
someone much smarter than us to do our thinking for us. There are images and
advertisements all around us to tell us how we feel and what we should look
like. The ethic behind this film is that of self identity and awareness.
Whether or not we have it.
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