Media Diary - Week 4

Media Diary - Week 4

Text that changed my life: Fight Club

Fight Club changed my outlook on life in many ways. It made me regard film as a serious art form and as an incredibly effective method of telling story, rather than as a form of entertainment that is simply used to pass the time. In turn this made me interested in becoming a filmmaker, completely changing my intended career path into what I originally intended. Since then, I have spent a lot of time pursuing this goal. The movie also made me look differently at society and culture for men in the late 90s, different to what I’d originally been exposed to through media texts such as Friends. The film also made me become more perceptive and critical of society as a whole, as while I don’t agree with the assertions that Fight Club makes about society, the level of perception and cynicism that the film offers regarding its analysis of society made me take deeper consideration regarding society.