Are we so blind?

I watched Fight club for the first time last night, I found it to be a very powerful film with many great points. (If you haven't watched the movies there will be spoilers in this)
It points out the fact that people have been made to believe what they see in advertisements, they are shown what they should have and want from catalogues, TV and Posters. But to buy these things that they say we should have, we have to work all hours of the day to have the money to buy things, it's a never-ending cycle as there are always new products to buy.
This is a movie about fighting back against this, saying no to these views and living without.
I took a few things from this movie at one point I was in total support of the characters and their 'project mayhem' there battles were one where no one got hurt, even when they decide to blow up the credit card buildings they make sure that no one is going to be in the buildings.
It shows a few of the world where these people have realised that there's something missing in their lives and that they have no real purpose any more, there only goal is to make money.
However despite what the characters are trying to do, I couldn't get over the strange feeling that something was wrong, I noticed this when some of the characters became mindless troops taking orders from the main characters at first I thought that it felt too much like the main characters were taking advantage of these lost people. Perhaps that's what it was trying to say, that lost people can easily be used in many ways, these people have been beaten down so much by the world that is around them that they can be pushed in to anything blindly and are seeking desperately for someone to lead them. It would have be interesting how things would have turned out after the end of the movie, would more people join their fight willingly, change the world and be the people they want to be rather than what the media tells them to be? or would nothing change despite what had happened?

Do the plots of such movies ever change anything? would the world in them be any better?
I was listening to Michael Tsarion on Red ice radio and one of the things he was talking about really stood out to me, he was talking about these movies such as Fight Club and V for Vendetta and about all kinds of different things that point out what's going on in the world, all these great artists and philosophers that are telling us what's happening in their art, be it stories, movies, music or art people are screaming at us telling us what is happening around us and have been for years and yet nothing changes!

You just have to look or listen to the news, in a list of reports yesterday how could a report about TV companies telephone frauds come before a 5 second report about a 16 year old being shot?
Are we really so blind? have all of our senses been dulled so much that we don't notice what is going on around us?

Now I know it's not all bad as long as people can and do create great works of art that point out the things that they see as wrong in our world then there is hope. I know how painful it is to be one of those people but I am glad that I can feel that pain, that I can cry when I see cruelty in the world and not just ignore it.
That I can write these things down.



If you haven't watched it yet try and get a copy for the 5th of Nov.