The entire ‘You missed the point crowd’ somehow likes to interject their personal beliefs onto every story as much as the people they are criticising. Fight club, according to it’s own author is very clearly about the effects of consumerism, the destruction of community, importance of a father figure/mentor, lack of purpose in men’s lives and the danger of being enslaved by those who promise you freedom.
Tyler’s character (at least subconsciously) is very inspired by ted kaczynski, who many people sympathize with at least to some degree. In much the same way the author clearly sympathizes with the struggles the narrator faces and tyler tries to solve, as evident in his interviews and especially in his JRE episode. Tyler is a revolutionary, and much like his real life counterparts (many of which redditor’s idolize such as che guevara and castro lol) seeks to destroy the system but in his rage he harms innocents and likely would have tried to build a new one to take it’s place. The narrator realising that he has simply become a slave to tyler now instead of the consumerist society he lived in tries to seek actual freedom and not fall into the trap of fanaticism. In the book he fails, which is to be expected with it’s nietzschean themes echoing the idea the true freedom is not possible. In the movie the narrator still fails (I don’t see people talking about this but project mayhem still goes through after tyler’s death, it seems that most people have forgotten about this), he fails to bring freedom to the overarching society but he finds his own personal freedom by killing tyler and holding on to his relationship with Marla.
This IP is so expansive in what it seeks to tell and boiling it down to ‘men-bad’ is an injustice.
by jack3737