Fight Club is one of my big touchpoints for disillusionment with media analysis. I'm sure this would get an "A" in a film class, it has exactly the kind of ins

Fight Club is one of my big touchpoints for disillusionment with media analysis. I'm sure this would get an "A" in a film class, it has exactly the kind of insights people who comment on media are taught to find. There's plenty of value in that, of course. But art has the ability to capture ideas the creator doesn't articulate directly. The difference between good analysis and an expanded plot explanation is the ability to extract that idea and put it into digestible words. I see and feel glimpses of something else in this movie. I don't have the time, lingo or toolset to really dig into it, so I keep making the mistake of watching/reading commentary on it hoping someone else finds it and can explain it. They all seem blind to it.