Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
There is one thing that these characters share: they seem pretty crazy.
Tyler Durden fights like crazy and does all these weird stuff that makes people wonder why he is doing. He makes erotic sounds in children movies and make soups with disgusting fat.
Clementine dies her hair to blue, green, orange and travels around everywhere and just talks to people randomly.
But, why did I feel sad, rather than annoyed, when I was watching them doing all these weird stuff?
It is because I knew they are LONELY PEOPLE
Tyler and Clementine fulfills their loneliness and stress that they get from people and society through doing all these crazy stuff.
To Tyler, his friend, the narrator of this movie, Edward Norton, is so precious and important. We know that the narrator is Tyler, but you know just to analyze my perspective, let's keep them separate. He gets emotional over him, and does everything with him.
To Clementine, her lover, Joel Barish, is so important to her, that he becomes her weakness. He becomes her emotions and feelings that she has in the world, and she scares the most to get hurt by him.
From my perspective, looking through their reactions towards their people, I could relate them to children.
Children, who have to get what they want, who have to express how they feel, and who get hurt so easily, especially people whom they love. Children are fragile from outside forces and also from their own emotions.
Tyler and Clementine, GROW UP and FACE THE WORLD AS IT IS!
As children you are sheltered and protected from the world, but with Tyler and I guess Clementine, you see their childish stages. To me, they really are grown up; just messed up. I see where you are coming from though because the emotions run wild and the actions seem so unpredictable and crazy like children's actions, but these two people are just growing and finding themselves. They aren't particularly children, just grown ups finding themselves in the most twisted ways.
ReplyDeleteI think Durden is no child but a baby. He needs to boss around his droogs just like how a baby needs to boss around his parents. He takes out his anger on consumerist corporations just like how a baby points the finger at anyone but himself. Durden has no fear just like an itsy bitsy baby would not. Durden likes a woman just like how a baby likes his mother. I agree with sihara@ucdavis.edu that "They are messed up, psychologically, but they are trying to find their meaning of their existence" and with Vickie Nguyen that "They aren't particularly children."
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