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Wasn't the message of Fight Club ostensibly anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist, the exact opposite of the lifestyle of #richkidsofinstagram ?
by Nexxxeh 8y ago
Wasn't the message of Fight Club ostensibly anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist, the exact opposite of the lifestyle of #richkidsofinstagram ?
- Apocryphon 8y agoYes, but capitalism is more than capable of repackaging those subversive themes to push product.
- nailer 8y agoNo. Project Mayhem was anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist. The message of Flight Club was that nihilism is a destructive force.
- ShabbosGoy 8y agoSimilar to A Clockwork Orange. Ultimately nihilism/anarchism are juvenile philosophies that one (hopefully) outgrows when they are older.
- CPLX 8y agoFight Club had a lot of messages. I could name a couple more: * A generation of men raised with absent father figures is leading to listless depression. * Every person has an idealized version of themselves in their head where they are powerful and purposeful. * Modern middle class culture has no real danger in it, and we have lost our connection to the world of physical violence and dominance. * Living for the acquisition of more IKEA furniture is a poor life decision. And so on and so forth. Like most decently thoughtful and provocative film and writing it throws a lot of things at you and makes you think and reconsider your values a little. It has a lot of messages, some contradictory, some confusing or banal, and some intriguing.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoI think, in a way, FC and The Matrix were the msg. That is, be complicit and conform, as zombies so. Or don't, and be alive, be yourself. Sure there are particulars. But is FC's consuming consumer that much different (metaphorically) from being a battery for the machines? I don't think so.