Is Fight Club an eye opening movie for us guys. ?I am 17 and am fascinated by Fight Club's messages. I am a guy and I realize a lot of what is in Fight Club rings true for many of us guys. The part with the support groups because it seems that today there are far more ways for women to deal with their problems and that men have so many less outlets and we are generally looked down on. The "corporate" world where if we are not what media make us that we are not "what is wanted" and bound to be left or forgotten. The fact that guys are becoming self-conscious and are too materialistic. I personally agree with the notion that most guys in our time are being "replaced" by women (machines, sex toys, etc) and that we need a way to let out our frustration. I have had a "fight club fight" with a friend and we did feel great afterward. I think it is necessary to show a guy that he is capable of winning, or dominating to improve his ego. I think guys all vision themselves to want to be the "alpha-male" like Tyler Durden was and not care about what the worlds thinks of him. To realize that we have to stop caring and that breaking things sometimes is better than making them. Front and foremost, I believe that instead of repressing masculinity like the world tends to do now... that we need to let guys express their masculinity and their frustrations of how the modern world has negatively affected men.
Posted by 2ndInCommand
Well if you want to start your own fight club and make a project mayhem...and blow a giant smiley face into a building i guess god speed.
Posted by Jeff
Did you watch the movie or are you asking people with what you have heard on a message board?
It is specifically stated in the movie (and the book) it is not about winning or losing. The message (in the film and book) throughout is a return to a primal state of society by embracing the virtues of self-destruction.
Nowhere is it implied that we are being "replaced" by women. Only that men have become weaker in the generations as they have been raised by women and not men; a women knows how to love her son, not make him into a man. That one was a actually another shot at the disarray of the american family as fathers leaving their families to fend for themselves conceptually raises another generation of weak men who will likely due the same.
I'm not going to break it all down for you as it's Taoist in nature so it requires personal insight not just words being presented but I recommend you watch the movie again with a different perspective of things and see what you take away from it this time, each time I have viewed (and read) it I seem to find another little nuance or shade to each one. That's why I consider to be among the most underrated films I've ever seen.
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