MurillaNinjaScrilla;2136163 said:
These movies are different but also have some similarities... read this...
“A man disillusioned by what his life has become encounters an exciting stranger who introduces him to a new way of life”
Does this plot summary describe Fight Club or The Matrix?
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In Fight Club, ‘You're young. You have an easy, well-paid desk job. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. …Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either.”
In the Matrix, you are young, You have an unfulfilling desktop as a computer programmer. Yet you are emotionally and spiritually empty. Then you meet Morpheus and Trinity, who show you that not only can you live without material needs, but that nothing is as you know it and you must learn to fight to save the world.
In the Fight Club, Tyler Durden tries to free the unnamed Narrator’s mind. In the Matrix, Morpheus tries to free Neo’s mind. Both the Fight Club’s Narrator and Neo lead lives without meaning. The meaning is then imposed by the introduction of a larger than life, mystical guide, who completely shatters their past life (in Fight Club, Durden literally blows up the Narrators apartment and in the Matrix, once Neo takes the red pill he can never go back).