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Why Fight Club is a love story
Now, I’m sure most of us know this movie, or have at least seen pop culture about it, but here’s something they may have missed.
I’m firmly of the belief that this movie is a love story, a different kind.
Told through a split personality/shadow done in a different way, sprayed with a bunch of lies both between both male characters and the male and various others, and embroidered with loads of capitalistic choices about working to live whilst also hating the man.
Ultimately, though, this is a story about how the shadow/ego/hidden persona takes control and tries to show that there is an alternative to living just for stuff instead of for the excitement of an experience.
In pop culture you have the following good vs bad in terms of own person, with Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask, Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Stephen Grant/Marc Spector(from Moon Knight), Charlie/Hank (from Me, Myself and Irene), and generally, the wild man is the one that’s making the art form entertaining, exciting, and at times even exhilarating.
And while in some of these cases the shadow is mean, vile, angry, it’s not always the case. It’s a simple push-pull direction that takes ones boring life and makes it vivid.
