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I think the message of fight club is that while life isn't about possessions, it can be equally empty to chase a nihilistic idea of masculinity that doesn't con
by mattzito 4y ago
I think the message of fight club is that while life isn't about possessions, it can be equally empty to chase a nihilistic idea of masculinity that doesn't connect you with others in a meaningful way.
It's satire - it's making fun of the protagonists as much as it's commenting on them. Ferris bueller doesn't strike me as satire in the same way.
- gerbilly 4y agoTo me Fight club is a boy meets girl story. The whole Fight Club and later Project Mayhem id a complex digression he invents to avoid facing the fact that he wants to get close to Marla.
- slater- 4y agoi love this interpretation, and i hadn't considered it before reading your comment. the destruction that follows from his desperate avoidance of this relationship nearly results in his own castration. his last gasp at being an independent man threatens his very manhood. damn.
- pstuart 4y agoI can't find the write up, but there was a compelling post that Marta is Jack. So is Robert Paulson. The vibrator in his suitcase? No accident, just there when he was Marta. Note the ending when they're hand in hand, they look identical. I'm not doing the critique justice, but I found it compelling enough to remember it and share it here.
- gweinberg 4y agoYeah, I've read that. Why aren't any men upset that there is a woman in a testicular cancer survivor group? Because the narrator is the only one that can see her, she's not really there.