THE INCREDIBLES is nakedly "some people are just superior and trying to raise others to their level is bad". FIGHT CLUB, well...I feel like I'm missing something there. Everything about the Narrator's malaise feels so melodramatic to me that the movie comes across as farcical.
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Replying to @cymaiden @della_morte_
The movie is meant to satirize toxic masculinity and winds up making it look pretty cool
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Isn’t there a quote where Palahniuk explicitly says it’s not about that
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about what
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That fight club is about toxic masculinity. I looked and I might have been mistakenly remembering him saying he doesn’t think it’s a real thing?pic.twitter.com/RgwL4Hb2Lu
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I mean it's about something in that ballpark, surely
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren and
Pahlaniuk isn't really as clearheaded an ideologue as a lot of people want him to be on this stuff and arguably Fight Club wouldn't have been as compelling if he were Like I don't think he himself is clear on whether Tyler's plan was Good Actually
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Irl he was a member of the Ruckus Society, an anarchist direct action org, and he made up Project Mayhem as this exaggerated morally ambiguous version of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Let's be real: Fight Club is as much about Palahniuk not being OK with being gay as much as it's about anything else
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Replying to @autogynamelia @arthur_affect and
I mean his coping mechanism was to lift weights on acid til he hurt himself, so I kinda felt that a long time ago. I couldn't read much to be honest. The visceral that oozes all over the page.
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Yeah the Narrator's alternate self Tyler being this alpha male who's the one banging Marla and has her wrapped around his little finger while she thinks her boyfriend is really him but the real him can't touch her
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Replying to @arthur_affect @OhHeckKitty and
The Fight Club 2 has Marla sabotaging the Narrator's psych meds just because their sex life is shit and she misses Tyler's dick
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Replying to @arthur_affect @OhHeckKitty and
There's this grossout short story he wrote that's just this lovingly vivid urban-legend style description of an anal prolapse (the schoolyard story of a guy who tried hooking himself up to a pool pump for an ultimate prostatic orgasm) that's kind of obviously a self-hate thing
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