This is the most important men’s movie of the post-modern era. This movie asks all the right questions about the impact of modern life on men. It shows us the dehumanized “wimp” and the dehumanizing “jerk” (the twin excesses of male nature) and points to a vision of manhood that is a middle way that harmonizes the best virtue of both. Fight Club is absolutely indispensable for any responsible understanding of American masculinity after 1988.
My rating: Own it.
2 comments:
I thought Fight Club was incredible - hard to watch at time, hard to stop thinking about. My husband didn't like it all that much, but we kept talking about it for some time after we watched it, and I tried to explain to him that liking the movie wasn't the point - being affected by it was...then again, he's a huge fan of representational art - when I took him to the Dallas Museum of Art and he saw someone had mounted a sink on the wall, he was disgusted that this could be called 'art'. I do try, though. Think I might have to rent that movie again, now that you've reminded me of it.
I thought Fight Club was incredible - hard to watch at time, hard to stop thinking about. My husband didn't like it all that much, but we kept talking about it for some time after we watched it, and I tried to explain to him that liking the movie wasn't the point - being affected by it was...then again, he's a huge fan of representational art - when I took him to the Dallas Museum of Art and he saw someone had mounted a sink on the wall, he was disgusted that this could be called 'art'. I do try, though. Think I might have to rent that movie again, now that you've reminded me of it.
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