Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 11:15:28 -0400
From: lbekich-AT-MNSi.Net (Larry Bekich)
Subject: Re: Fight Club


Bakunin writes ...

>>>    Has anyone heard about that new movie, Fight Club? Brad
>>Pitt
>>>plays a "Charismatic Anarchist who befriends a disillusioned yuppie"
>>and
>>>brings
>>>him to a secret club where people beat the shit out of each other for
>>stress
>>>relief. Sounds interesting, but how much bad PR will it give us? On
>>the other
>>>hand, anarchy may become the next trend...which would be worse?

>I saw Fight Club this Sunday.  Fucking CoolAss movie.  However, the "Fight
>Club" is certainly not a model of Anarchist organization.  Rather fascistic
>actually.  Though definately anti-capitalist with a bit of a primativist
>bent, and a little deconstructivism to boot.  Definately worth seeing,
>especially
>if you should happen to have "a passion for destruction."  I'm sure it'll
>become a favorite of nihilistic punks everywhere.  I don't wanna say anything
>else about it so I don't spoil it for anybody, so I'll leave it at that.

Yes, it certainly wasn't a model of Anarchist organization, but engaging
nonetheless.  I was confused by a peculiar twist around the two thirds
point of the movie which I found to be unconvincing and inconsistent, but
perhaps the book would clarify things a bit more, or a second viewing.

I also question the whole ethos of fighting as a liberating device for a
society--or at least its males, but I guess that is really a comment on the
book.

Larry