Sex With Brad Pitt

It's like your having sex with Brad Pitt

Using masculinity, madness, and sexuality; Fincher creates a "Freudian flick" that lures audiences in and elicits their unconscious sources of pleasure.

Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club's plot revolves around the nameless narrator who works for an automotive company. Through his narration, we discover that he manages his deep melancholy and depression through consumerist habits, more specifically, shopping at Ikea. Along with this, we watch as he attends group meetings for illnesses he does not have; were he meets Marla. From there, we unknowingly watch the narrator then "create" his alter ego; which further complicates his relationship with Marla.

Marla and Tyler create the classic struggle of the Freudian Oedipal Theory. Figuratively speaking, sex with the symbolic mother and killing his "personal" father. The narrator introduces both a father figure as well as becoming that father when he "splits" himself in two. The Freudian theme also exemplified in the scene where Tyler shakes lye powder on the narrator's hand and forces him to endue the chemical burn. While doing this, Tyler screams; "Our fathers were our models for God, if our fathers failed, what does this tell you about God? Have you considered the possibility that god does not like you? Never wanted you?" Fincher uses montage editing in this scene to portray the intensity and hectic nature of this moment. Reiterating the Oedipal Theory and the comparison of father to God, the narrator is trying to literally inscribe this paternal metaphor onto his body. The themes from Freud's theories do not stop there. Fincher highlights the threat of castration in two scenes of this film. This occurs firstly in the men's bathroom with the police commissioner, then secondly at the very end when the followers threaten to castrate the narrator.

The images of violence towards others and castration may be thought of as taboo images in our society. Just as it is to watch men beat each other to a pulp while a crowd of others stand around screaming at the top of their lungs. However, in Fight Club we are able to indulge in scene after scene of forbidden images. Tyler with his amazing physique constantly walks around with no shirt on; and his wild, abandoned sex with Marla are such pleasures. Fincher cleverly creates this without letting us get to see any actual sex. He uses; screams, moans, shaking ceilings, and swinging lamps to provoke our thoughts. Then leaves our imagination do the rest. After all, these are the sounds cause the narrator to peak into Tyler's room while Tyler and Marla are obviously in the middle of sex. This leads to another Freudian theory; Ð''The Peeping Tom'. Interestingly, not only are us the audience peeping tom's but also the narrator is peeping on himself.

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