The film that launched modern fascism
672K views · Nov 27, 2018 · Film & Animation
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@Furore2323 · 7 years ago · pinned
"This internalisation of loss..."<br><br>HBOMBERGUY STILL TALKING ABOUT LOSS :D
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@Heartseekrrchar · 8 months ago
"oh hey i can see this being topica- SEVEN YEARS AGO?????"
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@maxobyrne1474 · 7 years ago
I can’t believe I never thought of Tyler editing the narrative of the film given that he spends his time editing films when he’s working in the cinema
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@naltschul · 5 years ago
The real fight club was the friends we made along the way
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@lllazyoli · 2 years ago
The first rule of fight club: You never talk about your duvet!
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@dragonmaster613 · 7 years ago
This movie is the Schrodinger's Cat of Gendered perspective. It is both a male power fantasy propaganda <i>AND</i> a pro feminist parody of toxic masculinity.
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@f1nger605 · 7 years ago (edited)
A minor thing I want to point out about the chemical burn scene: Tyler is wrong. While sodium hydroxide powder does soak up water from your skin and the air around it, the idea that running large amounts of water over his hand would make the problem worse is completely wrong. The proper response to sodium hydroxide skin contact is "wash station, wash station, wash station!" You still want to do it in a way that doesn't spread the chemical around on your skin (i.e. tilting your hand so that the water pushes it off, not around on your skin), but you most certainly want to wash as much of that junk off as you can as soon as you can, and running water is the best option in the case presented in the film. The recommended wash time is over fifteen minutes, with the goal being to rinse the powder off and also dilute what doesn't come off as much as possible. Stopping yourself to go look for the vinegar to try and neutralize it would accomplish little more than to prolong pain and increase the damage to your flesh (which is likely Tyler's intent, since the lye ritual seems to be a combination baptism and branding ceremony for his followers.) What's more is that simple vinegar isn't as acidic as the lye is alkali, so you would need a hell of a lot of vinegar to neutralize that much lye powder. One calculation I read is almost 2 liters being poured directly on the area at a continuous rate. Dilution with water is still the best option, even if you have vinegar on hand, since your sink will automatically have a larger supply of water than any jug of vinegar.<br><br>In short, that scene is like the airplane oxygen mask scene at the beginning of the movie: harmful pseudoscientific misinformation meant to dazzle idiots into thinking Tyler is so much smarter than all the normies. Something that right-wing conspiracy theorists have gotten pretty good at.
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@RaineFielder · 3 years ago
Just a little side note, schizophrenia is not when someone creates an alternate personality... the disorder is called dissociative identity disorder
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@freeflapjacks · 7 months ago
Worth noting: Palahniuk has been pretty clear that Tyler is a warning, not a hidden narrator or hero. Reading the film as “Fincher selling fascism” skips the book’s actual concern with alienation and false liberation.
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@Xeno.kermit · 5 years ago
I knew when “urine is sterile, you can drink it.” Entered the common vernacular that people were seriously not getting the movie.
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@4D4plus4is4D8 · 7 years ago
"a straw man whose mortal enemy is a fancy word for blanket."
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@Cheffamily · 4 years ago
haven't watched this movie but i don't think i'll ever forget a little story about this: Fincher's 9-year-old daughter told him that her classmate, a boy, said that he loved Fight Club. He forbade her from talking to him ever again.
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