• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I watched fight club for the first time in 10 years recently. I’ll tell you that movie hits different when you’re 20, 30 or 40. I remember in my 20s it all seemed so cool and badass, now that I’m 40 I see now that they’re a bunch of incel losers with toxic masculinity and a lack of self awareness.

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      10 hours ago

      Chuck P was a gay man. The movie takes the homoeroticism to levels that would have been laughable if Palahnuik had written them.

      Why does the narrator ignore Marla? BECAUSE HES GAY

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      22 hours ago

      They are a bunch of losers, but their plights are very legitimate. That’s how a charismatic cult leader swoops in and radicalises them.

      We have a number of real world examples of that. The most current one being Andrew Tate.

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      11 hours ago

      The point was to not worship these people. The point was driven better in the book, the movie was more anti-capitalist than the book.