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Why the movie Fight Club is so popular within the Self help / PUAs / Red pill crowd ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Paracelsus" data-source="post: 1099403" data-attributes="member: 8098"><p>A quote from the ever-increasingly-predictive-and-relevant film <em>Bulworth</em> has application: "Black people and white people have more in common than they do with rich people."</p><p></p><p>That aside, onward, and continuing to break Tyler's rule...</p><p></p><p><img src="https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/you-do-not-talk-about-fight-club.gif?w=620&h=260&crop=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Coincidentally, there was another movie which addressed the same subject as <em>Fight Club.</em> Same year, in fact. It even beat out <em>Fight Club</em> for an Academy Award (in sound editing, the award given to all films that rich liberals would prefer buried). Can you guess what it was?</p><p></p><p><img src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQq3pIz-aKgkmYX1dJ-EL-AlHSPcOO7wdqRIJ5gJy9qNinXpmle" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The only difference between these two movies is that one of them was marketed as an action movie and therefore in the fantasy genre, and one of them was not.</p><p></p><p>The Neo of both films has two lives. In one life they are both white guys doing essentially meaningless jobs and pretending to live in the real world, and in the other life they are subversives, devoted to bringing down system/s from within. Neither film allows for two identities. Remember what is the ultimate fate of Tyler Durden in <em>Fight Club.</em> As Agent Smith says, commenting really on both films: "One of these lives has a future; the other does not." </p><p></p><p>I say it's basically the same movie in each because both are addressing the ennui of middle class Western men. They both are touching on the fact there is a system all around you that does not require your input in any meaningful way. They also (or rather <em>as a result</em>) touch, in a fundamental way, on the narcissism that is endemic to the West and which comes about because of the lack of healthy coming-of-age rituals. Those of you who read a lot of Last Psychiatrist will probably know where I am going with this, so rather than bore you all with another restatement of the topic, I'll leave one crumb at the trailhead for you to contemplate. How far you go down the road from there is up to you.</p><p></p><p>When you glance over the Shittypedia entry for <em>Fight Club</em> you're given reasons a voiceover was used:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Last Psychiatrist expands on this aspect of filmmaking:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Narcissism is defined by making the world relate only to you. It is about convincing the rest of the world of the story that you tell them as your identity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paracelsus, post: 1099403, member: 8098"] A quote from the ever-increasingly-predictive-and-relevant film [i]Bulworth[/i] has application: "Black people and white people have more in common than they do with rich people." That aside, onward, and continuing to break Tyler's rule... [img]https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/you-do-not-talk-about-fight-club.gif?w=620&h=260&crop=1[/img] Coincidentally, there was another movie which addressed the same subject as [i]Fight Club.[/i] Same year, in fact. It even beat out [i]Fight Club[/i] for an Academy Award (in sound editing, the award given to all films that rich liberals would prefer buried). Can you guess what it was? [img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQq3pIz-aKgkmYX1dJ-EL-AlHSPcOO7wdqRIJ5gJy9qNinXpmle[/img] The only difference between these two movies is that one of them was marketed as an action movie and therefore in the fantasy genre, and one of them was not. The Neo of both films has two lives. In one life they are both white guys doing essentially meaningless jobs and pretending to live in the real world, and in the other life they are subversives, devoted to bringing down system/s from within. Neither film allows for two identities. Remember what is the ultimate fate of Tyler Durden in [i]Fight Club.[/i] As Agent Smith says, commenting really on both films: "One of these lives has a future; the other does not." I say it's basically the same movie in each because both are addressing the ennui of middle class Western men. They both are touching on the fact there is a system all around you that does not require your input in any meaningful way. They also (or rather [i]as a result[/i]) touch, in a fundamental way, on the narcissism that is endemic to the West and which comes about because of the lack of healthy coming-of-age rituals. Those of you who read a lot of Last Psychiatrist will probably know where I am going with this, so rather than bore you all with another restatement of the topic, I'll leave one crumb at the trailhead for you to contemplate. How far you go down the road from there is up to you. When you glance over the Shittypedia entry for [i]Fight Club[/i] you're given reasons a voiceover was used: The Last Psychiatrist expands on this aspect of filmmaking: Narcissism is defined by making the world relate only to you. It is about convincing the rest of the world of the story that you tell them as your identity. [/QUOTE]
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