Everyone's heard of the famous movie "Fight Club," starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. These are my overall thoughts on the famous movie.
Consumerism
The movie follows Edward Norton's character, a miserable worker working for a corporation. He has a boring job, living the same monotonous lifestyle every day. His character criticizes consumerism and materialism, stating them as reasons why humans are stuck in ruts, nothing to make them passionate.
Toxic Masculinity
As the movie progresses, the audience begins to notice many comments on masculinity, particularly toxic masculinity. It begins with Bob, a middle-aged man who has large breasts due to testicular cancer. His breasts are used as a running gag in the movie, yet the idea that he's lost his balls and how has breasts suggests that he's not *really* a man anymore.
Towards the end of the movie, the men of Project Mayhem continuously threaten their victims by cutting their balls off. This further proves the theme of toxic masculinity, as the idea of losing balls is one of the worst things that could happen to a man.
Then there's the fight club itself. The club is made up of all men, who fight each other. Having the men show their superiority and strength by beating the crap out of each other is indicative of toxic societal expectations that men should be tough, violent, and aggressive.
Double identity
By the end of the movie, the viewer realizes that the narrator and Tyler are the same person, that Edward invented Tyler because Tyler is everything that Edward isn't. While one can take this on the surface-level of the narrator having a split-personality disorder, the case of the narrator creating a persona of himself that is everything he isn't is highly relatable. Everyone wishes that they were something they aren't — more rich, more pretty, more well-spoken, the list goes on and on.
The narrator represents the audience — whether the audience wants to realize it or not, we are the narrator. We constantly want to be the best version of ourselves, whether that's more handsome or more athletic. The narrator embodies this desire, and whether or not he has split personality disorder is irrelevant through this lens.
Civilization
Tyler's great speech at the end of the movie, about crashing the credit card companies so that everyone goes back to being equal (monetarily, class wise) is a call on civilization. It's a desire for an egalitarian society, stating capitalism and consumerism as the great evils of society. While he has a point, his methods were entirely wrong. Still, it makes the audience think: are we a slave to society, are we stuck in our ways? It makes the audience analyze the power of corporations in our lives, how much we are dependent on other people for our existence.
