twas a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual

[elyusion]

Title: Fight Club (1999)
Type: Movie
Poor Summary: Me when I start an underground boxing ring and become a terrorist because I'm bored
Why Did I Watch This??: Because everyone else has 🙂‍↕️ It's part of my journey to become a real human.
Strongest Aspect: Probably not actually the strongest, but I thought the CGI looked really cool.
Favorite Part: Not sure I have one... I just liked the entire movie. The twist reveal?
Least Favorite Part: None, but I suspect that during some rewatches I'll skip the first part of the movie, all the way up to when our protagonist meets Tyler.
Blahblah: These are the most intricate rituals which allow one to touch the skin of other men ever constructed.

Brad Pitt at the end of the movie looks like white Michael B. Jordan. Someone please agree with me.

Anyways, I see now why you might want to avoid a guy who says this is his favorite movie 😭 I would gladly rewatch it though; shit was crazy. And I want to read the book because I'm so curious how some of the things in the movie would work in writing.

Comments

[commodityfetishx]

i think i read this book a hundred years ago in high school but have never seen the movie. apparently the author wrote it as an allegory for toxic masculinity so your blahblah blurb tracks. people also have said mosh pits are for teen boys deprived of human touch from other guys. dudes can't just link arms or give a back pat to the homies, they have to make it violent because they're not gay.

[elyusion]

I've seen someone say that about mosh pits before, and to this day I still don't know what goes on in them TT I thought they were just jumping around and nodding their heads hard as fuck or something, but I'm starting to think they might be making out in there too, idk. I'd say we need to normalize platonic touch between men, but that's kind of on them (like a lot of their problems). Until then I will enjoy the sexual tension that arises in a lot of media because they allow themselves no release if not violence!