2. Genre
I would place the movie ‘Fight Club’ under the genre of
Psychological Drama Thriller. Because it is too slow for it to
be an Action, too dark to be a romance and too slow to be a
consistent comedy. The items listed above (Action,
romance and comedy) are all elements within the movie but
it is not an underlying theme throughout it.
The drama element in the genre is aimed to move the
audience and follow the character development of the main
character. It is psychological thriller because of the quality
of reality, Characters within Psychological Thrillers tend to
doubt themselves, or try to find their ‘true’ identity. We tend
to perceive the story through the perspective of the main
character which means that the audience can misperceive
the story incorrectly and therefore allows for major plot-
twists within them movie.
3. The Narrator (Jack)
The narrator of the film is the main
character himself. We rarely
hear his real name, it is
mentioned once and is known
as Jack. Jack has a certain
insomnia which can only be
cured by crying. He achieves
this by attending various help
groups and cries in front of
other people who are also
crying. It is in one of the help
groups that he meets Bob.
When he finds out that a woman
names ‘Marla’ also goes to the
help groups although she
doesn’t need help, he gets very
angry. On a business trip he
bumps in a man named Tyler
Durden who turns his world
4. Tyler Durden
To the audience, Tyler
Durden is just another
man, who sells soap,
steals cars and does
what he wants. He helps
‘Jack’ out of trouble and
together they set up Fight
Club. A club where
people go to fight on
Saturday nights and then
walk away like nothing
happened. To begin with
Tyler is just a man, but by
the end of the film we find
out that Tyler was ever
just a figment of ‘Jacks’
5. Marla Singer
Marla, as well as the
narrator, lies her way
through help groups, but in
her case it’s to feel better
about herself. She
previously worked in a
funeral home to ‘feel better
for herself’ also. Although
Marla is an obstacle to the
narrator, without her the
whole story would just be
following the narrator who
would just seem like a
delusional man. Marla puts
6. Robert ‘Bob’ Paulsen
This is Bob. Bob was
‘Jacks’ friend in the
testicular cancer help
group. After ‘Jack’
leaves to move with
Tyler, Bob believes that
Jack had died, so when
he see’s him again he is
very glad he is alive. He
tells ‘Jack’ about fight
club, to which Jack tells
him that he invented it.
After fight club begins to
become a cult, Bob
