Fight Club and Buddhism
This is a paper I did in university in 2003. I presented it at the University of Lethbridge at the Religious Studies Conference. The Violent Vehicle: Fight Club as a Buddhist Path to Enlightenment 4/1/2003 Fight Club is a 1999 American film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk . The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton , Brad Pitt , and Helena Bonham Carter . [1] Besides painfully obvious utterances by Edward Norton’s character, such as “I was the Zen master” [i] and his haiku writing, the movie Fight Club has many Buddhist parallels. Edward Norton’s character is unnamed (hinting at Anatman ) and will be referred to as ‘Jack’. His life loosely parallels the Life of the Buddha, as he begins to realize that there is something oddly not right about existence ( Dukkha ), he sets forth on a journey to learn how to quench his discomfort. On this journ...




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