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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
The worst I ever disagreed with him was with Fight Club. He totally blew that one.
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I just read his review, and yeah, he missed the point. It's like he understands what the movie is trying to say, but just doesn't like all the violence or the types of people he feels would enjoy the movie, so he misinterprets it out of spite.
I don't see Fight Club as being about any kind of philosophy. It doesn't have any answers, it just expresses the irreconcilable differences between primal male psychology and modern life: modern society castrates a man's urges toward violence and action (there's a reason we play football and Call of Duty), but when they give themselves fully to "masculinity", they become slaves to their new hunter/gatherer lifestyle just as much as they were before. The movie doesn't even really take sides, or suggest a solution, it just expresses frustration.
And when you find out that the author is gay, it kind of adds another element.