Can't live with em...

Ryan Bateman
10/24/03
Intro to Film
Paper #1
Can’t Live With Them…
Fight Club is a movie starring Brad Pitt (Tyler Burden), Edward Norton (Jack), and Helena Bonham Carter (Marla). David Fincher directs this film and the director of Photography is Jeff Cronenweth. Relationships are the basis of our world. We have relationships with everyone we know, whether it is our boss, teacher, authority figure, friends or family. But the most important relationship is with the one you love. In “Fight Club,” Jacks relationship with Marla represents his two-sided personality. He meets Marla at group therapy meetings where he goes as a means of dealing with his pain, he seeks out 12-step meetings, where he can immerse himself with people less fortunate than himself and find catharsis in their suffering. Marla also has no real reason to go but she stays because she gets free coffee and donuts. She spoils it for him because he knows she's not there for real help and he wants to believe e...