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Posted on 8/19/15 at 10:53 pm to biglego
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I didn't care for it. I never "got it" and never could get high enough to enjoy it.
I didn't like it that much the first time I saw it, now it's one of my favorite movies. And I don't smoke weed.
I think it pointed out some major flaws in american society before most americans were willing to acknowledge them or even be able to notice them.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:01 pm to Cooter Davenport
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And yeah it definitely says our problem is that we have a generation (more now) of men raised by women. That's not a stupid point. What he's talking about is rampant single motherhood where there's no male influence. Yeah there have always been mothers mothering, but there used to always be a man's man role model around, too. That and boys used to play OUTSIDE, all day, and rough, and fathers were the ones who were permissive of that and encouraged it. A single mother is more likely to say "stay inside away from the mean, scary, dirty world and play your videogame."
i guess i didn't pick up on that because i did all that outside, unsupervised kid stuff.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 5:12 am to Melvin
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Men raised by women? They were probably shocked at how stupid that statement was.
It wasn't stupid at all.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 5:17 am to SystemsGo
I think Fight Club is about personal empowerment, institutional power, and the way these two ideas are both conflicting and intertwined.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 7:53 am to NATidefan
Fight Club is about the exact opposite of what most of you think it is about.
It's about how insane it is to blame society for what is wrong with you and how stupid it was for the fight club and the actions after it being used to try and overcome his shortcomings.
At the end he realized he was loopy, got over it and saw how destructive it was for him to try and make his problems about anything other than himself.
It's about how insane it is to blame society for what is wrong with you and how stupid it was for the fight club and the actions after it being used to try and overcome his shortcomings.
At the end he realized he was loopy, got over it and saw how destructive it was for him to try and make his problems about anything other than himself.
This post was edited on 8/20/15 at 7:55 am
Posted on 8/20/15 at 8:02 am to NATidefan
Basically can be summed up in a few quotes from the movie:
Posted on 8/20/15 at 9:13 am to Scoop
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It's about how insane it is to blame society for what is wrong with you and how stupid it was for the fight club and the actions after it being used to try and overcome his shortcomings.
At the end he realized he was loopy, got over it and saw how destructive it was for him to try and make his problems about anything other than himself.
Right. You realize the movie is making fun of the morons who joined Project Mayhem and the like? It's not endorsing Tyler Durden's philosophy, it's pointing out that the logical endpoint of his belief system is the literal destruction of society.
And for a guy who talks a big game about individuality, he requires all of his followers to become such subservient drones that they even give up their names. He is enslaving them.
Tyler's personal empowerment only came at the cost of hundreds of people's humanity, a few deaths, and the wholescale destruction of a city. Oh, and his plan won't work either. Tyler is a monster. Marla is right, he's the worst thing that ever happened to her.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 9:15 am to NATidefan
Chuck has said many times that it's actually a love story but the main protagonist is trying to discover himself through the whole thing. But if that's true then the main plot isn't nearly as interesting as the rest of it.
It's about trying to belong to something and defining who you are by it. The main character is trying to belong to society but he sees it as bullshite. Then he clings to Tyler and gets abandoned when Tyler takes his anarchist nonsense to its extreme. Tyler ends up a fascist in the end and the main character is just as lost. I think it's just about the futility of trying to find happiness in attaching yourself to something.
It's about trying to belong to something and defining who you are by it. The main character is trying to belong to society but he sees it as bullshite. Then he clings to Tyler and gets abandoned when Tyler takes his anarchist nonsense to its extreme. Tyler ends up a fascist in the end and the main character is just as lost. I think it's just about the futility of trying to find happiness in attaching yourself to something.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 9:36 am to LSUfan0420
This quote has always stuck with me. It really makes you think about the psychology of spending money.
Such an awesome and brilliant movie
Posted on 8/20/15 at 9:52 am to Cooter Davenport
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It's not an indictment of women.
It's an indictment of a society where men are no longer men.
And yeah it definitely says our problem is that we have a generation (more now) of men raised by women. That's not a stupid point. What he's talking about is rampant single motherhood where there's no male influence. Yeah there have always been mothers mothering, but there used to always be a man's man role model around, too. That and boys used to play OUTSIDE, all day, and rough, and fathers were the ones who were permissive of that and encouraged it. A single mother is more likely to say "stay inside away from the mean, scary, dirty world and play your videogame."
But more than that, Fight Club is mostly an idightment of consumerism. It's just saying along the way that the more domesticated we become, the more femme, and the more femme, the more consumer-driven. But that's just one point among many on the way to the overarching theme of raging against inhuman, disconnected, anesthetized, unauthentic, drone-like consumer culture.
:kige:
Posted on 8/20/15 at 10:09 am to Baloo
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Right. You realize the movie is making fun of the morons who joined Project Mayhem and the like?
Some really funny stories that Chuck tells about meeting fans at book signings bragging about starting their own fight clubs and him telling them "wow you completely missed the point of the book"
Posted on 8/20/15 at 10:09 am to Mo Jeaux
It's actually a satire of people who feel enlightened and think they have it figured out
It's actually poking fun at the hipsters(what we call today)
And men will use any reason to submit to their primal senses.
The main character uses his alter ego to spit out all this philosophical bull shite but at the end of the day ends up doing what the early Homo sapiens did. Fighting
Top five movie of all time
It's actually poking fun at the hipsters(what we call today)
And men will use any reason to submit to their primal senses.
The main character uses his alter ego to spit out all this philosophical bull shite but at the end of the day ends up doing what the early Homo sapiens did. Fighting
Top five movie of all time
This post was edited on 8/20/15 at 10:13 am
Posted on 8/20/15 at 10:13 am to Rhames
Also if anything the movie points out that men need women.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 10:13 am to biglego
quote:I don't know that you would need to be high to get Fight Club, man.
I didn't care for it. I never "got it" and never could get high enough to enjoy it.
Posted on 8/20/15 at 11:53 am to The Sad Banana
all of you fricks are breaking the first two rules.
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