Fight Club Critical Debates

• One's genuine identity can be discovered through status and the accumulation of material possessions.

• An end of the century protest.
• A serious film made by deeply unserious people.

• Not only anti-capitalism but anti-society ... anti-God ... an admissible assault on personal decency. 

• It'll probably make kids want to go out there and try to copy it.

• Style over content.

• Dank grotesquery signifying nothing.

• There's something more than a little ludicrous about sitting in a theatre while Brad Pitt preaches to you about the emptiness of materialism.

• Flopping around like acid-crazed carp wondering how such a thing could even have happened.

• They think it's ridiculous because it's meant to be ridiculous.

• The credits roll and more astute viewers experience the shock of recognition that Fight Club turned out to be ... an uplifting movie.

Women maybe get the humour faster.

• The two protagonists represent two opposing depictions of masculine identity

• He doesn't even have access to half his identity.

The shackles of modern life imprison and emasculate men.

Macho ****.