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Never mind the incels – Fight Club is still a vital film about masculinity
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
David Fincher’s violent satire was once one of the most controversial films of the 1990s; thanks to the 2019 Fox-Disney merger, the film – and its stomach-churning scenes of middle-class men pulverising one another in squalid basements – is sat right there between Mickey Mouse and The Little Mermaid.
There’s Edward Norton’s narrator, an emasculated insomniac who starts the film gatecrashing group therapy meetings and ends it as a brawling terrorist.
There’s Durden (Brad Pitt), the charismatic jock who goads Norton out of his rut and forms a cult.
It is hardly surprising that the film (and the Chuck Palahniuk novel from which it was adapted) has been linked to some of the most extreme white male behaviour: Fight Club is said to have inspired neo-Nazi fight clubs, incel culture and the excesses of the “alt right”.
While most agree that Fincher’s cult movie is satirising toxic masculinity, some viewers mistook it for endorsement.
“The movie has become part of the contemporary mass-cultural canon through which large numbers of men try to think through masculinity,” wrote the New Yorker.
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