[ SECRET POST #3230 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3230 ⌋

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Comments

A Reminder (inspired by secret 7)

[(Anonymous)]

If you thought that Tyler Durden was the hero of Fight Club (at least the movie version), you did not understand it. Whether you thought it was good that he was the hero, or bad.

Re: A Reminder (inspired by secret 7)

[(Anonymous)]

I personally read the whole thing as Tyler basically being the rom-com equivalent of the sassy friend who gives the hero(ine) a kick to the pants to get them to talk with the love interest. Everything else is circumstantial.

Re: A Reminder (inspired by secret 7)

[(Anonymous)]

I always read that movie as not having any "hero", at least not in the traditional sense of the word.

The story makes the most sense to me if I interpret as a commentary on the nature of evil and its relation to "greatness". How we all have the capacity to become great (or to come to be perceived as such by our fellows) if we put our talents to use, and how the dark flip side of that is that we all have the capacity to become evil if we allow the negative aspects of our personalities to take over.

I think it's ultimately a story about a man's desire to become a greater person than he is, and how that desire leads to him battling with his "evil" inclinations before they completely subsume and destory all the good in him.

Re: A Reminder (inspired by secret 7)

[(Anonymous)]

There's a lot of ways you can frame what's going on, and a lot of ways you can read it.

But, I think, any way you want to read it has to be in terms of a dialectic movement - where one shitty situation (the one the protagonist is in at the beginning) engenders another opposite but equally shitty one, and resolution is only achieved through the rejection of both. You can frame those situations in personal terms or social political terms, or whatever you want. But that's the basic structure of the movie, and however you frame it, Tyler Durden does not represent a satisfactory outcome.