This would likely top many a cinephile's list as the best use of music for end credits, and the choice would not be without merit. The second David Fincher film to appear on this list, Fight Club is a film with a lot on its mind. Thematically inspired by the proto-existentialist and existentialist teachings of such vaunted philosophers as Friedrich Nietzsche, the film is essentially a rant against the pre-fabricated, materialistic nature of the contemporary man adroitly dressed up in a plot about a bunch guys who form a club to beat the living daylights out of one another. Of course, the club turns more into a revolutionary movement than a fight club, and as the film's identity-bending plot twist plays itself out, we get caught up in the precarious mental condition of our protagonist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7sGp7Glxis Which is a perfect segue to the Pixie's Where Is My Mind? Like Fincher's use of The Beatles' Baby Your a Rich Man, you could accuse the choice of Where Is My Mind as being too obvious. However, these arguments fall apart for those who have actually heard the song. The scarily haunting tune from the alternative rock band, the Pixies, is supposedly about frontman Francis Black's scuba diving experience in the Caribbean. The song's otherworldliness though makes it easily transferrable to any experience that vastly deviates from the norm and Fight Club, being a story about deviating from the norm, is a perfect fit. As our protagonist's transformation finally becomes complete, the title question seems to be not only a reflection on the film's events, but a question for the viewer to ask themselves.
A film fanatic at a very young age, starting with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies and gradually moving up to more sophisticated fare, at around the age of ten he became inexplicably obsessed with all things Oscar. With the incredibly trivial power of being able to chronologically name every Best Picture winner from memory, his lifelong goal is to see every Oscar nominated film, in every major category, in the history of the Academy Awards.
