Just watched Fight Club for the first time (possible spoilers)

[Blankthawtz]

i must have missed the overall symbolism of this flick...cus i don't see the big deal with it...it was an ok movie and quite frankly very confusing...i get the whole multiple personality shyt but what was the point of this film??

Spoiler

and tell me how you shoot yourself in the mouth...survive and act like it was a flesh wound....

 

[ManxOfxThexYear]

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

i like its anti-materialism message

 

[Sane]

 

[Gains]

there's a number of ways you can interpret this movie


the book is more clear

 

[MartyMcFly]

It's anti materialism but also anti macho and anti baby boomer. The baby boomers established a very specific view of manhood and success and this movie is a direct fukk you to both of those. "The things you own end up owning you" and the idea that in order to be a man you've got to feel pain and be tough subject yourself to a lot of crap all while grinning and bearing it is an idea really established by baby boomers and their culture. This movie is Generation X saying "yeah, no thanks."

Edit: But it's also about a lost generation. Generation X had no Vietnam, or great war for them to fight like every generation before them did. They had no real "meaning" in the larger context of the world up to that point so their aimlessness as a generation is also reflected in the movie as the narrator is aimless and not really sure what he should be doing or why.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

It's anti materialism but also anti macho and anti baby boomer. The baby boomers established a very specific view of manhood and success and this movie is a direct fukk you to both of those. "The things you own end up owning you" and the idea that in order to be a man you've got to feel pain and be tough subject yourself to a lot of crap all while grinning and bearing it is an idea really established by baby boomers and their culture. This movie is Generation X saying "yeah, no thanks."

Edit: But it's also about a lost generation. Generation X had no Vietnam, or great war for them to fight like every generation before them did. They had no real "meaning" in the larger context of the world up to that point so their aimlessness as a generation is also reflected in the movie as the narrator is aimless and not really sure what he should be doing or why.

this

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

It's anti materialism but also anti macho and anti baby boomer. The baby boomers established a very specific view of manhood and success and this movie is a direct fukk you to both of those. "The things you own end up owning you" and the idea that in order to be a man you've got to feel pain and be tough subject yourself to a lot of crap all while grinning and bearing it is an idea really established by baby boomers and their culture. This movie is Generation X saying "yeah, no thanks."

Edit: But it's also about a lost generation. Generation X had no Vietnam, or great war for them to fight like every generation before them did. They had no real "meaning" in the larger context of the world up to that point so their aimlessness as a generation is also reflected in the movie as the narrator is aimless and not really sure what he should be doing or why.

such a GOAT status film