@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.

@mattjhodgkinson @bitbear

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.

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@mattjhodgkinson @Godfrey642 @flowerpot @FatherEnoch @bitbear doesn't this article make a compelling case that the target of the satire is something else?

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