cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/48632768

I gotta be honest literally the only thing I remember about fight club was they blow up a banks HQ at the end and thats pretty based without context

Tyler Durden was a real one.

Yeah, the fighting part was like this mega dumb segue to the cool shit: tearing down the establishment

Men need community spaces... men need safe community spaces?

That movie is about being closeted, and how that attraction will find a (usually destructive) way out.

See: Pete Hegseth.

Like with watchmen. They can't tell when they're being mocked.

Like with The Boys. They can't tell when they're being mocked

Like with Steven Colbert. They can't tell when they're being mocked

Like with Ron Swanson. They can't tell when they're being mocked

getting punched is probably not a safe environment.

No, what they really need is a secretive club that bonds through self-directed violence.

Like with Starship Troopers. They can’t tell when they’re being mocked.

Does it lead to a cult? I’m only on board if it turns into a cult.

Jack was the real one. He wrote about his complete lack of surprise.

I think Jack was suffering from such complete sleep deprivation and memory loss that he started living in the Paper street house without knowing it until he created the Durden persona.

I didn't want to join anyway!

The narrator’s name wasn’t Jack though.

Isn't also about going way too far with militant anarchism? Pretty sure the whole cult was set up to introduce anarchy to the world.

Your typical "alpha male" chud tends to be pretty right wing, so they'd be opposed to anarchism.

How do you know he wasn't named Jack?

We think it wasn't Tyler but he could have been anyone.

We don't know either way but it isn't impossible for him to actually be Jack.

I thought the movie was about all the expectations imposed by society on adults, and about trying to find the true meaning of life despite all those expectations?

If you want to be pedantic then it isn’t Jack either because he’s supposed to be nameless.

Wrong. Bombs

But that's the problem: destroying a bad thing doesn't mean the new thing will be better

doesn't matter. bad thing gone.