Fight Club and American Beauty - Both main characters are dealing with personal problems within their lives.
In the film American Beauty the main character Lester Burnham is a depressed suburban father going through a
mid-life crisis.
Lester Burnham develops an infatuation for his daughter’s
attractive friend and though this infatuation Lester starts to change his life.
Lester starts to workout, blackmails his boss, quits his job, stands up to his
wife and starts smoking weed.
Lester becomes a happier person
because of all the changes he has made in his life, unfortunately his life ends
soon after; but he dies happy.
American Psycho and Pulp Fiction - Both of the two films deal with extreme forms of living.
In the film American Psycho the main character Patrick Bateman is a very
strange man.
On the one hand Patrick is a
wealthy banking executive from a rich family then on the complete flip side,
Patrick is a psychopathic serial killer who murders a variety of people. It is
quite scary how someone could be a normal working man during the day and a
completely different man at night time. These ideas really play on the idea of
extreme living.
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Atonement - Both of these two films deal with conflict and ruined lives.
In the film Atonement the three main characters deal with an extreme conflict.
Then Briony Tallis mistakenly accuses
her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit she changes the course
for their lives forever.
The film then steps forward into
the future as Briony tries to correct the mistake she made as a young child,
even writing a book to try and reach atonement. Unfortunately all three
characters die without resolving the misunderstanding.
The first two photographs (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
are the same but different. The idea for this photograph came from the idea
that runs through the film; the idea of change and forgetting by use of a
medical procedure.
Fight Club
Fight Club and American Beauty - Both main character in Fight Club and American Beauty are dealing with personal problems within their lives.
In the film Fight Club the main character The
Narrator is a very weak man, he has a boring job, catalogue apartment and
average life.
Through the introduction of an
alter-ego named Tyler Durden, The
Narrator grows stronger; the Fight Club makes him powerful. But he still
questions himself and questions Tyler
Durden. As the Fight Club gets
bigger and better The Narrator starts
to lose it and is built up to a point where he is able to get rid of Tyler Durden.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Atonement - Both of these two films deal with conflict and ruined lives.
In the film One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest the main character R.P McMurphy is brash, rebels and dodges
jail time for a brief stay in a Metal Ward.
Throughout his time in the ward
McMurphy gets under the skin of the head nurse, Nurse Ratched. He rallies the
other patients to take on the strong heavy handed Nurse Ratched. Unfortunately
all his hard work ends up costing him his life when Nurse Ratched gives him a
lobotomy, which turns him into a vegetable.
Pulp Fiction
American Psycho and Pulp Fiction - Both of the two films
deal with extreme forms of living.
In the film Pulp Fiction the
characters live on the edge and are not ordinary people. Two of the characters
in the film are Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace, a hit-man and mob bosses
girlfriend. There lives’ are fast passed and violent for example; the drug over
dose scene in which Mia over doses and Vincent has to plunge a syringe into
Mia’s chest. These two people’s lives seem so farfetched and unreal that it
doesn’t seem possible that people could live their lives like this.
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