Fight Club
Okay, just watched Fight Club last night. That movie has a different target audience than me, but I watched it out of sheer curiosity, having seen an analysis video on it.
20+ (?) year old spoilers
It was odd, to say the least. It was highly p^rnographic at some points, and the alter ego of the main character (I don't even think he ever says his real name) is almost entirely Masculine, nothing about Tyler is feminine in any sense.
You know how most people have some feminine or some masculine traits that contrast their sex, regardless of what their sex actually is? Yeah, well imagine pure masculinity, that is Tyler.
On the contrast, the main character (?) is incredibly effeminate. He feels his Ikea furniture collection is his world, and honestly he sounds pretty gay at times.
When he talks to his alter ego Tyler, it's like he's in a relationship with him at some points. I don't mean sexually, I mean the way he nags him sounds very much like the way a couple will nag each other.
The movie doesn't make it obvious that the main character and his alter ego are two separate people. though this is hinted at throughout the movie, it is thoroughly explained in the end.
On top of everything going on in that movie, I don't know, I'm at a loss for what to think. The speech Tyler gives is an in depth analysis of society, a premonition of how males have been I guess bottled up by society, how their true roles and rights have been cast aside for pointless jobs. Men have forgotten to be men is the summary.
The whole synopsis of course of Fight Club (or project Mayhem) is that you don't talk about it with anyone, you just are in it. It seems that many men at the time in the movie are so moved by the nonsensical fighting that many do join. Men that are both old and young equally join.
These are men from all walks of life, and the only thing they are doing is fighting each other. Like an underground boxing ring. It is so interesting that it spreads like wildfire. Of course, part of that reason for spreading being because the main character's alter ego is traveling across different cities and setting up franchises of Fight Clubs.
Still, the movie was definitely odd. I do wonder what the point of it was in the directors mind. I remember some of the movies of the 90's had that weird indie funk to them, I don't know how to describe it. This movie definitely has that air to it. I admit I haven't looked much into the director, or any more than the simple short analysis of a video that I watched.