Marla Singer is known to anyone whoread the legendary work of the cult American writer Chuck Palahniuk or watched the film of no less outstanding director David Fincher's Fight Club. In both works this heroine, although not a key character, plays a very important role, helping to plunge deeper into the happening.
This heroine is the key female characterin "Fight Club", which is often compared with a femme fatale. Its fundamental task is to wrest the protagonist from an ordinary, cozy way of life and to lead him to the street, full of dangers and difficulties.
Marla Singer adds to the film a certain noirnosti,because its appearance and way of life is created in the style of the theme popular at the end of the twentieth century, namely, the demonstration of the appearance of a woman doomed to a miserable existence because of her drug dependence.
It appears to the viewer and the reader of theby nature a young girl, but emaciated and exhausted with drugs. She dresses too provocatively, her make-up is sloppy and vulgar, and she herself is emaciated, as her heroin is draining. Pale, unhealthy skin color, circles under the eyes and careless appearance - this is the image of a femme fatale from the 90s according to Chuck Palahniuk.
In the film, D.Fincher role of Marla went to the charming actress Helene Bonham Carter, who just brilliantly coped with this difficult way. Despite the fact that Marla Singer is the key female character of the film, she remains on the periphery of the plot throughout its entire length.
In fact, she does not understand until the last thatit happens, although the events unfold very close to it. This is a very ambiguous role that not every actress can deal with, so B. B. Carter has done a lot of work to play 100% role of Marla Singer. The filmography of Helena was already quite large at that time. Thanks to her great professional experience, which she already had then, and the talent of the actress, she was able to cope with this difficult role.
According to the plot of the film, Marla Singer is a woman,which together with the main character (the Storyteller) goes to the support group. However, it falsifies its symptoms and difficulties. Learning about this, the main character loses interest in group activities, so he stops visiting them.
Then she and the Storyteller meet again whenMarla has already become a Tyler girl. She leads an extremely unpleasant way of life, uses narcotics, almost does not care for herself, she earns by stealing. She certainly is an anti-hero. Despite her 24 years, she is already doomed, so she is constantly drawn to commit suicide.
This heroine complements both the book and the filmgloominess, creating a noir atmosphere of what is happening. It was this effect that Chuck Palanik, who specialized in writing works in the style of counterculture and modern prose, sought. In the film, this effect is preserved to the full, and perhaps even better represented.
Marla Singer does not cause strong sympathy, andshould not. She performs completely different tasks in the work, being only an addition to the main characters and the plot. However, if it were not, then that pumping atmosphere, which is inherent in literary and cinematographic work, it was impossible to achieve.
But in many respects "Fight Club" became a cultprecisely at the expense of its harsh reality, which demonstrates to the reader and viewer a world full of despair, in which the Narrator turned out to be. Who knows, Palanica would have succeeded in conveying all these numerous, two-sided and complex emotions experienced by the Storyteller, if not for the described image.
