The essay on “Fight Club” movie written by Peter Travers focuses on highlighting the unique protest of the film’s narration against the currently existing capitalistic society. Travers emotionally describes some of the scenes from the movie, emphasizing the implicit messages of those to the audience. Using expressive language and various metaphors, the author of the overview, states that through the mentioned schemes, the director challenges the prejudices of the men trapped by society.
The overall quality of the overview is high because it is a movie review and not an academic work. The author addresses no additional resources in the narration. This essay is rather the emotional attitude of the author rather than structured narration. One of the most significant advantages of the article is that the author utilizes various provocative language, such as extended metaphors and comparisons. The major negative of the essay is that it imposes the film’s particular vision, which can be considered the significant bias of the work, depriving the viewer of finding the meaning of specific scenes. Such an essay can be helpful when conducting practical research to estimate the movie’s effect on the audience. The author provides no unique ideas related to the film.
Moreover, the lack of structure makes the essay distorted. Such a review is highly personal based on the author’s perception of the film. In other words, it cannot be used as a source for scientific research due to the lack of structure, validity, and third-party support. However, as an alone-stated review, it is provoking and enjoyable to read due to the emotionally colored language. In other words, the general communicational intention of the author is to encourage the audience to watch the movie. Therefore, the academic value is low, while the media and motivational value are high.