In order to get a further understanding of the concept of hyper reality, I chose to watch Fight Club as this was recommended to further gauge that a reality can be simulated. It perfectly reflected this as the film progressed, but it was even more engaging due to the suggestion and foreshadowing that came before the hyper reality was revealed.
The year this film was released (1999) could be linked to millennium and the disturbance the year change was thought to cause. This was a common misconception, as the media heightened the fear that the millennium bug would cause complete disruption to peoples lifestyles and the function of the world.
Similarly the booming of technology and telecommunications, the idea of a hyper reality is much more plausible. In a postmodern society the imagery and information widely avaliable facilities the creation and stimulation of something no necessarily real. In the instance of this film, the hyper reality is wholly caused by mental creation, the image of a "new" person is completely internal but still so vividly real.
While this is a fictional simulation, Jean Baudrilllard also used this analogy to make sense of the Gulf War. Here it is claimed that it did not take place, and was simply played out on tv. In a similar way it could be argued that the reality we see on TV recently, is also a simulacra. Made in Chelsea and Towie still portray a real life simulation, without actually being reality.
Further research in to other sociological theorists is needed here to understand a more rounded perceptive of this kind of phenomenology.
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