True confession:
I’d never seen Fight Club until this year. I had my reasons. For one, it was widely panned when it came out and didn’t achieve cult favorite status until several years later. Second, after seeing Se7en (I feel a bit pretentious typing that) I was not eager to watch another disturbing David Fincher film.
But I watched Fight Club and I loved it. I immediately went to buy the book. It is hilarious, disturbing, and thought-provoking.
My friends James and Kat told of the first time they saw Fight Club in the theater. They said they were laughing their asses off and everyone was eyeballing them like they were sick. Why? They said “Americans don’t ‘get’ satire.” I think they are right. In some respects, we are, in fact, the sleepwalking, self-important people that author Chuck Palaniuk describes. Maybe we do need our near-perfect wardrobes blown up, to be delivered from Swedish furniture and clever art. What would happen if we really hit bottom?Fight Club is on the right track. But it presents only the option of nihilism in the absurd extreme (satire, remember?). Fight Club shows a cadre of men regaining power and meaning, 
but meaning that they create. They trade the idols of comfort and routine for idols of anarchy and power. “Getting God’s attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all.” That was Satan’s answer.If our lives are absurd, if they lack meaning, what is the answer then? The other choice is finding meaning in the man who was God, who did not fight but died for love. Is your house full of condiments and no real food? There is a feast prepared for you (Revelation 19:9).
Tyler Durden turns 10 (in film years) - cinemagogue Said:
on June 9, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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