Name: 放手吧！｜鬥陣俱樂部的人生哲學 (Just Let Go | The Philosophy of Fight Club)
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Why waste it on fulfilling other people's expectations?

為什麼要浪費時間去滿足別人的期望呢？

This is just one of those questions Presented in a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk named Fight Club.

這就是作家Chuck Palahniuk在小說《Fight Club》中提出的其中一個問題。

The film version of Fight Club, directed by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter, could be considered one of the best and most impactful movies ever made.

由David Fincher執導，Brad Pitt、Edward Norton和Helena Bonham Carter主演的電影《Fight Club》，絕對是史上最棒、影響力最大的電影之一。

When looking at its reception and ongoing popularity, Fight Club isn't shy of over the top violence, contains a fair amount of explicit language and of course the obnoxious behavior of its characters.

從它的評價和持續的受歡迎程度來看，《Fight Club》毫不避諱地呈現了過度的暴力、不少露骨的語言，當然還有角色們令人討厭的行為。

However, it's definitely more profound than just men coming together to beat each other up.

然而，它絕對比單純的男人們聚在一起互相毆打來得更深刻。

The story is built on several thoughtful concepts that are interesting and possibly applicable to our own lives.

這個故事建立在幾個發人深省的概念上，這些概念很有趣，甚至可能適用於我們自己的生活。

It tells a story about a generation of people without a clear purpose, without hope, raised with false expectations and repressed by ever tightening social norms.

它講述了一個關於一群沒有明確目標、沒有希望、被虛假期望養大、並被日益嚴苛的社會規範壓抑的世代的故事。

What if we're nothing more than a compost heap?

如果我們只是一堆堆的堆肥呢？

How do we find meaning in a meaningless existence?

在毫無意義的存在中，我們該如何尋找意義？

This video explores several philosophical ideas that Fight Club presents us.

這支影片將帶大家探討《Fight Club》呈現的幾個哲學觀點。

For those who aren't familiar with the story, this analysis explains and reveals the plot.

對於還不熟悉故事的朋友，這次的分析會深入解析並揭露劇情。

The story of Fight Club revolves around three main characters.

《Fight Club》的故事圍繞著三個主要角色展開。

It's told from a first person perspective by a nameless character that's commonly called the narrator, who has a dead and white collar job at a major car company and has fallen prey to what he calls the IKEA nesting instinct dictated by social norms.

故事由一位沒有名字、常被稱為「敘事者」的第一人稱角色講述，他在一家大汽車公司從事一份死氣沉沉的白領工作，並落入了所謂「IKEA 巢穴本能」的陷阱，這一切都由社會規範所 dictating。

He walks perfectly in line like a docile sheep, which translates into an inauthentic, repetitive and empty life.

他像隻溫馴的綿羊一樣完美地循規蹈矩，這轉化成了一種不真實、重複且空虛的生活。

He suffers from a bad case of insomnia which causes him to be neither fully awake nor fully asleep.

他飽受失眠之苦，導致他既非完全清醒，也非完全沉睡。

Sometimes he entertains self destructive thought thoughts as he flies around from state to state.

有時，他在各州之間奔波時，會萌生自我毀滅的念頭。

For his job, he prays for a crash or mid air collision every time the plane banks too sharply on takeoff or landing.

在工作上，每次飛機起飛或降落時傾斜太過，他都會祈禱發生墜機或空中碰撞。

During a flight he meets an eccentric and hyper masculine character named Tyler Durden.

在一次飛行中，他遇到了一個名叫 Tyler Durden 的古怪、極度陽剛的角色。

Tyler seems to be the direct opposite of the narrator.

Tyler 似乎是敘事者的完全相反。

He's a wolf rather than a sheep, disentangled from society and impervious to social norms.

他是匹狼而非綿羊，不受社會束縛，對社會規範毫不在乎。

He takes what he wants without asking and whenever he pleases.

他隨心所欲地拿走他想要的東西，毫無顧忌。

He's self sufficient, has no superiors and doesn't care about material possessions.

他自給自足，沒有上司，也不在乎物質財富。

The movie later reveals that Tyler and the narrator are the same person, as Tyler is a product of the narrator's imagination that's probably induced by severe insomnia combined with dissatisfaction with a dull, meaningless existence and a lifetime of repressed urges.

電影後來揭示 Tyler 和敘事者是同一個人，因為 Tyler 是敘事者想像的產物，這可能源於嚴重的失眠，加上對平淡無意義生活的厭倦，以及壓抑一生的衝動。

The narrator is Addicted to going to support groups for specific illnesses because these give him the opportunity to cry, which seems to be a remedy for his insomnia.

敘事者沉迷於參加特定疾病的互助團體，因為這些團體讓他有機會哭泣，這似乎是他失眠的解藥。

The downside of his behavior is that he isn't genuine.

他這種行為的缺點是他並不真誠。

He has no testicular cancer or blood parasites, yet acts as if he does so he can reap the benefits of these sessions.

他沒有睪丸癌或血液寄生蟲，卻假裝有，以便從這些聚會中獲益。

But these benefits come to an end when another non genuine visitor starts to join the sessions as well.

但這些好處在另一個不真誠的訪客也開始加入這些聚會時就結束了。

這是一位名叫 Marla Singer 的女性。

And her motive for joining these sessions is, and

I quote, it's cheaper than a movie and there's free coffee.

「它比看電影便宜，而且還有免費咖啡。」

Marla is a self destructive, chain smoking fatalist who is expecting to die at any moment, but

Marla 是個自毀傾向、菸不離手、宿命論者，隨時準備好迎接死亡，但

她卻覺得從未發生過死亡是件悲劇。

She steals food and clothes for a living and attempts suicide by overdosing Xanax.

她靠偷竊食物和衣物維生，並嘗試過量服用 Xanax 來自殺。

Even though the narrator, Tyler and Marla have totally different personalities, they all live their lives accompanied by a nihilistic undercurrent.

儘管敘事者、Tyler 和 Marla 性格迥異，他們的生活都伴隨著虛無主義的暗流。

Tyler seems to have figured out what causes this emptiness, and

Tyler 似乎已經找出造成這種空虛的原因，

during the course of the story, his solution unfolds.

而在故事的發展過程中，他的解決方法也逐漸揭曉。

Unfortunately, his character slides from a sage like father figure to an anarchist terrorist who is out to destroy modern civilization.

不幸的是，他的角色從一位睿智的父親形象滑落成一個想摧毀現代文明的無政府主義恐怖分子。

Nevertheless, he exposes a series of harsh realities about modern life that are worth contemplating.

然而，他揭露了許多關於現代生活的嚴酷現實，這些都值得我們深思。

The anti consumerist stance of Tyler Durden becomes obvious when he verbalizes his concern about the modern way of life.

當 Tyler Durden 說出他對現代生活方式的擔憂時，他反消費主義的立場就顯而易見了。

Shortly after the narrator meets Tyler, he discovers that his apartment went up in flames.

敘事者遇見 Tyler 後不久，就發現他的公寓被燒毀了。

Realizing that he has no friends to call, he calls Tyler.

他意識到自己沒有朋友可以聯繫，於是打電話給 Tyler。

The two meet and a narrator complains about losing his furniture and his respectable and almost complete wardrobe.

兩人見面，敘事者抱怨失去了傢俱和他那體面又幾乎完整的衣櫃。

Tyler responds rather indifferently and slightly sarcastically before he begins to express his views on the matter.

Tyler 回應得相當冷淡，帶點諷刺，然後開始表達他對這件事的看法。

We are by products of a lifestyle obsession.

我們是生活方式痴迷的副產品。

Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me.

謀殺、犯罪、貧窮，這些事跟我無關。

What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear, Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.

跟我有關的是八卦雜誌、有五百個頻道的電視、我內褲上某個人的名字、落健、威而鋼、Olestra。

It becomes clear that Tyler has quite an unconventional view of what's good and bad.

顯然，Tyler 對於什麼是好、什麼是壞，有非常規的看法。

Murder, crime and poverty are generally considered bad things.

謀殺、犯罪和貧窮，通常被認為是壞事。

While consumer goods like televisions, clothing from a certain brand, products that help to hide aging, enhance bedroom performance, and

相較之下，像電視、特定品牌的衣服、幫助隱藏老化、提升房事表現的產品，以及

help us with weight loss are considered preferable.

幫助我們減重的產品，則被認為是比較好的。

Tyler has a contempt for the artificial as opposed to elements that have been a natural part of the human condition probably as long as we exist.

Tyler 蔑視人為的造物，而偏愛那些可能與人類存在一樣古老、自然存在於人類條件中的事物。

This way of thinking touches upon an ancient cynic philosopher named Diogenes of Sinope, who believed that modern civilized life hinders our natural state.

這種想法觸及了一位古老的犬儒派哲學家，名叫錫諾普的第歐根尼，他認為現代文明生活阻礙了我們的自然狀態。

At the end of the movie, it appears that a narrator has destroyed his apartment himself when he was taken over by his alter ego, Tyler Durden.

電影結尾，敘事者似乎因為被他的另一個人格 Tyler Durden 取代，而毀了自己的公寓。

This deed was the first step onto the road of detachment from his property into a more authentic way of life.

這件事是走向與財產脫鉤、邁向更真實生活方式的第一步。

And two, how Tyler puts it, reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

還有第二點，就像 Tyler 說的，拒絕文明的基本假設，尤其是物質財富的重要性。

The narrator moves in with Tyler, who lives in a dilapidated house with ongoing leaks, power failures, and

敘事者搬進了 Tyler 的地方，那是一間漏水、停電不斷、

Slowly but surely, the narrator indeed detaches from his previously destroyed property.

慢慢地，敘事者確實擺脫了他先前被毀的財產。

Things you own end up owning you, Tyler tells him.

「你擁有的東西最終會反過來擁有你，」Tyler 告訴他。

And this simple piece of wisdom probably hits home when the narrator realizes that he doesn't need all these worldly goods and is actually much happier without them.

這句簡單的智慧之語，或許在敘事者意識到自己不需要這些世俗之物，而且沒有它們反而更快樂時，深深打動了他。

Tyler Durden is a nonconformist and shows again similarities with Diogenes, who not only purposefully lived in poverty, but

Tyler Durden 是個不隨波逐流的人，再次展現了與第歐根尼的相似之處，第歐根尼不僅刻意過著貧困的生活，

For him, social constructs are nothing more than a superficial layer of culture that represses our true nature.

對他來說，社會建構不過是壓抑我們真實天性的膚淺文化層。

Tyler urinates in the soup of a restaurant.

第歐根尼像狗一樣咬他的對手。

Tyler salivates over them using his own blood.

Tyler 用自己的血對他們流口水。

The narrator, on the other hand, seems to be the embodiment of conformity as he adapts his lifestyle completely to societal expectations.

相較之下，敘事者似乎是順從的化身，他完全按照社會期望來調整自己的生活方式。

The problem with this behavior is that we dedicate our existence walking the paths that people other than ourselves have laid out for us.

這種行為的問題是，我們把一生都花在走別人為我們鋪好的路。

This need to conform, this fear of falling by the wayside, this sickly preoccupation by what others think of us, this necessity to keep up with the Joneses.

這種需要隨波逐流、害怕落後、病態地在意別人怎麼看我們、必須跟上鄰居的腳步。

What an exhausting way of life just to feel accepted.

為了被接受，這樣的生活方式真是太累人了。

What if we reject the generally accepted norms and choose our own values, elect our own leaders, determine our own goals, regardless of the social expectations?

如果我們拒絕社會普遍接受的規範，選擇自己的價值觀，選出自己的領導者，設定自己的目標，而不顧社會的期望，那會怎麼樣？

This is a fundamental difference between the narrator and Tyler Durden, who puts it like I am free in all the ways that you are not.

這是敘事者和 Tyler Durden 之間一個根本的差異，Tyler Durden 說：「我擁有你沒有的一切自由。」

Ironically, later on in the story, Project Mayhem, a terrorist organization led by Tyler that grows out of Fight Club, is a textbook example of conformity, as its members wear the same clothes, are absolutely equal, abolish their names, and

諷刺的是，故事後期，由 Tyler 領導、從 Fight Club 發展出來的恐怖組織 Project Mayhem，就是一個典型的順從範例，它的成員穿著一樣的衣服，完全平等，廢除姓名，

are referred to as space monkeys that sacrifice their lives for a greater cause.

並被稱為太空猴子，為了更偉大的目標犧牲生命。

We could say that by rejecting one doctrine in order to be non conformist, we often imprison ourselves in another one.

我們可以說，為了不隨波逐流而拒絕一種教條，我們常常會將自己囚禁在另一種教條裡。

Fighting and the experience of pain play a significant role in Fight Club.

打鬥和疼痛的體驗在 Fight Club 中扮演了重要的角色。

At the beginning of the story, Tyler asks the narrator to hit him as hard as he can.

故事一開始，Tyler 請敘事者盡全力打他。

He explains his strange wish by how can you know yourself if you've never been in a fight.

他解釋他這個奇怪的願望，說如果你從未打過架，你怎麼認識自己？

So the narrator hits him, Tyler hits him back, and the two engage in a fist fight.

所以敘事者打了泰勒，泰勒也還手，兩人就這樣打起架來。

Both seem to feel surprisingly pleasant afterward and decide to do it again.

之後兩人似乎都覺得出奇地愉快，決定再來一次。

Their nightly activities on a parking lot attract the attention of other men that are also interested in joining these non hostile fist fights.

他們在停車場的夜間活動，吸引了其他也對這種無敵意的打鬥有興趣的男人注意。

It's widely known that voluntary exposure to certain forms of pain make us stronger in the face of adversity, which could be a legit reason to partake in these fights.

眾所周知，自願承受某些形式的痛苦，能讓我們在逆境中更堅強，這或許是參與這些打鬥的合理理由。

As the narrator states, after fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.

正如敘事者所說，打過架之後，你生命中其他的一切都變成了背景音。

However, Fight Club is more than just a metaphor for dealing with hardship through exposure.

然而，Fight Club 不僅僅是透過經歷來應對困境的隱喻。

the violence and aggression that goes with it resonates with the primal part of our being.

以及隨之而來的暴力和攻擊性，與我們最原始的本能產生共鳴。