@bitbear As Angela Collier recently said, "if your satire fails you just made the thing". Fight Club was meant to satirise toxic masculinity, but the film ended up reinforcing it.
I would have thought if anyone could capture whatever satire fight club had, it would have been #DavidFincher.
I personally avoided both the book and the movie. For a while I wondered if that was a mistake. Now I'm having the rare feeling of making one right choice in my youth.
@FatherEnoch @mattjhodgkinson @bitbear You made the correct choice. I know of one person who read the book but didn't watch the movie. He didn't think it was satire, but a manual.
I watched the move & had a hard time stomaching all of it.
However, I am guilty of using the 1st part of the famous phrase to get a call response from random strangers at a NYC elevator bank inside a building:
Me: "What's the first rule of fight club?"
Strangers: "No one talks about fight club".
@flowerpot @FatherEnoch @mattjhodgkinson @bitbear
Unfortunately confused messaging is what happens when "artistes" of any genre are so into their work + self, that their message gets confused, misinterpreted and lost by us ordinary folk.
@Godfrey642 @flowerpot @FatherEnoch @bitbear Plenty of ordinary folk (including me) did interpret the film as intended, i.e., not as something to be aspired to, and enjoyed it as such. It is a striking piece of cinema. However, that doesn't override the effect that glamorising male violence has had.
@mattjhodgkinson @Godfrey642 @flowerpot @FatherEnoch @bitbear doesn't this article make a compelling case that the target of the satire is something else?
@ech @Godfrey642 @flowerpot @FatherEnoch @bitbear You tell me.