I saw Fight Club!

[BRUTE]

Fight Club captures so many things well:
- the romantic desire of young human males to burn down a system they feel mistreated by
- the cultural suppression of masculinity, and the male desire to express their masculinity, on their own terms
- the ultimate futility of any ideology or belief system against human nature (re-establishing the social system they initially tried to escape)
- human males like to fight, it's almost a biological drive, not like food or sleep, but like sex, and it can be channeled

the movie is also brilliantly done. brute must've seen it 10-20 times at least, and every time it is as enjoyable as the first. this is kind of true for most Fincher movies brute has seen - they're just so incredibly well made, with such attention to detail, that they don't get old or boring.

[7Wannabe5]

Why I don't choose to teach 6th grade.

[Sclass]

Wow. So this post came full circle. I must have really liked the movie to start this thread. Last week I was in the Salvation Army store and my SO walked up with Fight Club in her hand and said hey, “do you want to own this?” It was half price day.

I shrugged, “Why?”

I’ll have to check it out from the library to refresh my memory. I found the fighting part to be kind of a distracting platform for the minimalism theme.

Ah yes, just read the OP. The things you own own you.

[ThisDinosaur]

I found the fighting part to be kind of a distracting platform for the minimalism theme.

Well, physical aggression is a major part of male angst, which was a theme of the story.

The movie was very poorly marketed. Previews of a bunch of amateurs punching each other in a basement? No thx. It didn't reach cult status until after it left theaters, which matches my experience.
I first saw it on DVD at my friend's apartment. I remember the exact moment I knew it was a classic:

"To make soap, we must first render fat. And the best fat comes from humans."
"Wait, what is this place?"
"Its a liposuction clinic."

[Stahlmann]

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[Mister Imperceptible]

Timeless film.

In college, I wrote a paper about Fight Club en route to my degree in Film/Basket Weaving. I drew a parallel to Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, with Norton’s character as representative of slave morality, Tyler Durden as master morality, and the encounter/struggle between the two as representative of individuals having mixed moralities. “My eyes are open” and the following self-inflicted gunshot wound as consummating the synthesis between the two. We were required to speak on our paper to indicate we ourselves had written the paper and not plagiarized. I remember the adjunct professor being intimidated enough by the paper that she brought in a philosophy professor from another school to hear my presentation. I honestly do not recall if the paper was absolutely brilliant, or pointless drivel. I was perpetually in a marijuana-induced stupor at the time. It was probably drivel.

I got an A.

[enigmaT120]

I liked Fight Club but I don't think I would watch it again, because it wouldn't work again.

[jennypenny]

Why Fight Club might appeal to INTJs ... http://typeindepth.com/2011/12/fight-club-functions/

[ira_kart]

finished seeing it now; saw it around 2012/13 and never understood a thing. Now its making some sense.

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. "\


Here we are, in the forum outlining how much we have saved for retirement lol.

[jacob]

Interesting things happen at the intersection. Flip one "not" above and you have FIRE.