5 Minutes of Film

According to Barker, structuralism speaks of signifying practices that generate meaning as an outcome of structures or predictable regularities that lie outside of any given person. In case of Jack, one of the causes of his life predicament was structuralism. Ruled by the book in hopes of success, and the correct meaning of his life structure Jack found himself looking for an end rather than the exit from his miserable life.
We fall victim to commercial and media world, which ultimately dictates our lives and our personalities. What are we? To which Tyler answered “consumers, the byproduct of lifestyles of perfection.” “Things you own end up owning you”. In the end we reach for some kind of perfection, but end up getting what we’re told. According to Jacks alter ego Tyler, “Self improvement is masturbation of self destruction.”