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Release Date: 06 June, 2000 Retail Price: $26.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
Fight Club Reviews
A Great Cautionary Tale
It amazes me how many people totally miss the point behind Fight Club, which is one of my favorite movies. The movie is not actually advocating mindless violence or fascism. Consumerism is not the movie's real target either; consumerism--in men--is a merely a symptom of what the movie is really criticizing. Nor is Fight Club "macho porn," as Roger Ebert originally called it.
Extremely relevant to the modern American culture, Fight Club is a dark comedy which acts as a cautionary tale about what happens to society when its men are emasculated, devalued, and robbed of any meaningful role as men. It is no accident that the themes of castration, fatherlessness, and effeminacy keep popping up in the film--they are essential to the main idea.
In short, the movie warns that when men and boys are stripped of their manliness and robbed of strong positive male role models, they will eventually rebel. Since they don't know how to act as men in a positive way--channeling their masculinity in creative and constructive ways--they will resort to the crudest and most primative form of masculinity, brutal destructive violence.
The second rule of Fight Club
Is that you should read the book, Fight Club.
The movie is good. Brad Pitt as Twitchy Tyler is superbly cast, though I always pictured Tyler as black. The movie, however, has a different end than the book, and it's a big difference.
The book's end is about taking power back for yourself. The movie's end is about losing power over your obsessions. This is large difference. The book is way better, and if you see the movie, you should read the book twice so you understand where Chuck is coming from.
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