The novel fight club describes the role and importance of the American culture in life of ordinary citizens and their life struggle.... Palahniuk, the author of fight club, recognizes that the concept of internalized oppression continually implies the likelihood of one's somehow transcending or mastering the admittedly deeply oppressive system by which the main characters are articulated as a .... Fight Club may be one of the best outlets for that kind of deeply felt tension. As far as the violence goes-on a primal level, when we feel attacked our system usually responds with "Fight or Flight." This film is an articulation of that fight response, a reaction to the invisible monster of a silently life-threatening machine-the system.