So the question the movie asks is: why is Marla immune to the appeal of this cult? Is cult-identity-destruction a male thing?
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Replying to @persenche
Well yes, explicitly so. Because Tyler/Narrator are pretransition trans women trying to pretend not to be
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @persenche
yeah in this particular case this reading isn't a stretch at all
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he finds solace in hanging out at a support group for men who've had involuntary orchis for God's sake
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and pretending that bc he's one of them he has a culturally acceptable reason to hug and cry
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Also it's still not explained why Marla would be there
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Need to re-watch with some-a this lensing; imagining Marla as the woman he's trying to become
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Replying to @SevenCubed @BootlegGirl and
Like IDK double headfake but the Tyler/Marla conflict is interesting
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Replying to @SevenCubed
It's not really double. I mean part of it may be me searching for a way for a movie to be interesting>
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Marla may not be a projection but he's clearly projecting onto her
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this much I will argue is text, the Narrator is wildly unreliable and projecting all over the place
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
that's inherent to the style of the movie, even before any big reveals
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah I mean he's fourth wall breaking when introducing Tyler.
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