[Vampyr]

Awesome movie, one of my favorites.

If you don't feel like reading what I'm about to say, just read Dylflon's post. Basically the same thing. The reason the movie was so genius is because of they way the fights and fight club symbolises everything. Without the violence it wouldn't be genius anymore.

The schitzophrenia wasn't even the main point of the movie, the main point IS the anti-consumerism anti-corporate-ism and the violence. If they took those things out, it would be taking away the very theme of the movie. The schitzophrenia was just a motif used to communicate the message. Maybe you were expecting a movie about schitzophrenia, but this isn't one.

"Jack" is a suppressed individual. His life is routine, he never does anything out of the ordinary. He is completely controlled by his possessions and the corporations. But a part of Jack realizes what's happening. He realizes that EVERYONE, not just himself, has become a lost soul, completely absorbed into thinking that what they have actually matters more than other people, or who they are. Everyone is a consumer whore. The part of Jack that understands this is just portrayed through another character, Tyler Durden.

Tyler is the nihilist in Jack. He see's that everyone living in Corporate America tries to define themselves through commercial culture, and he seeks to remove that. He seeks chaos. At one pivotal point in the movie, when Jack beats Angel Face (the only fight he actually wins), he says, "I felt like destroying something beautiful." It was Jack beginning to accept the Chaos.

The Fights, along with Tyler, are used to explore this motif. Jack, along with the other men at Fight Club, have no father figures. They were all raised by their mother's, we are a generation of men raised by women. No one has shaped their masculinity, and thus they are stuck in their "IKEA nesting instinct", as Jack put it. So the fights area way to express their primal male instincts. It's like therapy: Jack needs a way to show that he is his own boss.