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What this movie meant to me was you can literally become anything you want to become. The narrator was so tired of his mundane life, he literally projected an image of what he wanted to become, befriended it and quite literally became that projection. You can change, create and design your reality.

I remember seeing Fight Club back in 1999 the weekend it came out. That was the year The Matrix, Magnolia, and Eyes Wide Shut came out as well. Being a 17 year old who loved film in 1999 was a transformative experience. I don't think Hollywood filmmaking will ever be so bold and subversive again. Thank god I grew up in the 90s.

We are going to break the first rule of fight club, aren't we?

Tyler is one of the greatest character ever.

Such a classic film. I study psychology and we had to analyse this movie to do a group presentation on Tyler, the Narrator & Marla. By far my favourite class assignment

Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact.

Fight club has taught me a very good lesson's.."how much do you know about yourself if you'' ve never been in a fight???" And " things you own end up owning you!"...love this movie..really...lot of reality eye openning lessons.

I feel like this film also sends a message about mental disorder. You see a lot of people tell someone to workout, find a hobby, reduce alcohol, etc. But this movie shows that even though these people are aware about their disorder, they literally can't do anything about it.

Can we drink every time he says “philosophical conflict”?

for a movie made in 1999, it feels like it was made yesterday. Reason why its the GOAT

I think Norton's character can be viewed as embodying the Apollonian (daylight, rationality, thinking, accumulation) and Pitt's the Dionysian (nocturnal, destructive, impulsive, expenditure, revelry). The disjointed Apollonian is what Nietzsche thought was at the core of Western Civilization and the enlightenment, which, ultimately led to the situation in which Norton's character finds himself in. Tyler, while being totally unbalanced, actually brings balance and meaning to the life of our protagonist. As Jung wrote, " No tree can grow to heaven unless it's roots reach down to hell."

"things you own end up owning you" Im looking at my gun collection, safes, watch and hat collection thinking I need a bigger place to store my shit, gotta work more hours and make more money so I can have more stuff. Tyler was right!

We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is OUR LIVES.

Couple of things I have learnt and practiced from Fight Club: (1) Fill up any space in my home with Ikea furniture, (2) Pick up girl friend from peers help group.

i think it’s important to also mention how Fight Club is a satire. You’re not necessarily supposed to take Project Mayhem and Tyler Durdens philosophy too seriously which is the biggest misconception with the film and why people have actually misunderstood it as a satire and have been inspired to go and make real life fight clubs. The film is showing two extremes of ways of living - the standard American modern way of living in a consumerist world which ends horribly for the Narrator and then the complete opposite (Tyler frequently mentions monkeys or apes and i believe this is supposed to represent that primal instinct in is known as the Id where we act like our ancestors millions of years ago) which also ends horribly for the Narrator and even somewhat becomes similar to the life they wanted to escape at the start of the film. The reason Tyler’s philosophy has wrongfully been taken as an actual philosophy to live by in young men is down to the filmmaking at Fincher and Palahniuks part. In order to believe the character is seduced into this new violent lifestyle, Fincher has to seduce the audience into this new violent lifestyle by having Tyler convince the audience too that what he’s saying is actually right and has a lot of depth. It’d be almost impossible for the audience to empathise with the characters when they’re brutally beating the shit out of each other in basements and committing acts of terrorism if we the audience aren’t seduced into it. The satire on the consumerism world in the start aswell make us understand Tyler’s philosophy better, but as the film goes along and things get way too out of hand for Project Mayhem and Tyler’s philosophy becomes deeply flawed and contradictory is when the audience is supposed to understand that this way of living is equally as bad if not a worse idea than the narrators lifestyle in the beginning. Fincher stated that the film is all about ideas.

I'm glad that you logically assessed the issue of fatherlessness being at the root of nihilism and its philosophical conflicts. What a great motivation to do a modern-day "fight club" that is even more resonating with today's audience than Fight Club would be these days...

This movie was actually the main focus of my Social Psychology final in college. It’s such an amazing movie!

The best thing about Fight Club is everyone has their own interpretation. For some people Tyler is the picture of an ideal man, for some other he's just a nihilistic crybaby. And so on, and so on.

I lived a lie throughout my childhood. I smiled when i did not meant to smile. I laughed when i did not meant to laugh. i learned acting out even when i was 7-8 years old. When i saw this movie it resonated perfectly , it clearly shows how fake every thing is. Even our desires are not truly ours's , they have been dumped into us by the fucking society.

I gotta add that Fight Club screenplay is one of the best novel-based scripts ever written.

I hope someday you'll talk about Mindhunter

Edward Norton is just an incredible actor. Primal fear was great too

Me and my friend watched this movie, stood up and fought. I got 3 stitches on side of my eye while he got one on upper eye. Now there are 7 of us. We meet every Saturday, and fight. I stopped playing video games, can concentrate on studies, and am hard. Its the adrenaline and dopamine rush that makes it worth it.

One of the important messages in Fight Club, which seems to be missed or not mentioned, is how in their quest to go their own way, they inadvertently became what they hated once the Project Mayhem arc begins. They fall victim to what happens to many great movements in history and it should also be a cautionary tail for following ANYONE without question.

"Our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives". As i am growing older i see more and more of this unnatural world and see myself being sucked into it. I lacked a strong male role model growing up and now I find myself lost in this adult world, struggling in this transition of finding my masculanity. Rejecting conformity is a war in itself.

And wow! Thanks for doing Fight Club. One of the first movies that made me wanna write.

Thanks for your contribution Tyler.

I have been a huge Fight Club fan since I saw the film and then I read the book, there is a Graphic novel Version of Fight Club as well (pretty dope.) I have loved Chuck Palahniuk's story telling style so much, every single character he makes, a few great examples are from Choke, also made into a feature film- they're all so complex. Aggressive Nihilism is a running theme in Palahniuk's writing in general but something about Fight Club just resonates with anyone. I am a woman and I feel and have felt so close to this story, through the stages in my life. I am now 33. I was exposed to Fight Club at 15- talk about agro teenage nihilistic angst. It's basically poetry to me. Thank you for making this video- it's nice to see Fight Club is still alive and being examined in 2021, I think a lot of people these days could take a message or two from Fight Club, as long as they don't talk about it. I would also like to note- the book is a bit more well constructed and structured than the film- there are parts that focus on Marlas background and a little insight into her mental health/part in Narrator/Tylers life. It explains her erratic chaotic behaviors and it makes sense when she's calm in certain situations.

I'm surprised there are not more movies that approach these themes given there definitely seems to be an audience for this. It's really amazing this subversive film got made by a major studio. (And it shockingly didn't make much money on theatrical release.)

I got the notification right when I watched Fight Club yesterday. And I just watched the two protagonsits video😂

Every time after you watch the movie, you start to see the world and our lives in a different perspective!! EVERY TIME!!!!!! And that's why this movie is a masterpiece!!

IMO it all goes back to the comfortable piece and wanting things just the way you vision them and realizing the vision wasn’t as great as you thought it would be. True portrait of an ordinary everyday adult.

Tyler, congratulations on publishing a video with high quality content... I will take to heart your parting message at the end of this video where you mention the fault of trying to produce a "perfect" film... So many times I get caught up with wanting things to be perfect in the stories I create but I am now convinced that some elements of story-telling will take precedence over others, as is the case with the philosophical conflict in the Fight Club being the main thrust of the story over structure... Take care!

Ive seen this movie like 20 times.. the movie changed who i am and how i live.. and i love it!

I think you perfectly captured exactly what draws me into this film. I am not this film's main demographic as I watched fight club for the first time when I was a little girl. It kind of perplexed me when I connected to this movie so much even after all these years. My dad thought it was so bizarre too. It was my favorite movie then and its still my favorite movie now. There's kind of no other movie like fight club where it really made me think deep down about my place in the world and my worldview.

Either it's dead poets society or fight club . One that says you more about life and one that questions it's existence

This film tears into capitalist realism too. And we still live in a capitalist realistic world

The book went even deeper then the movie. It had even more character and feeling. Sometimes I couldn't tell if the narrator was saying something or just thinking of it. I could read the progression of madness and the pace, I loved the pace. I've never read a book written like this, just incredible. It is a masterpiece! You should read that!

The only other movie that affected me like fight club, was "up". i was sitting in the theater with 5 grand kids, when Mrs. Fredrickson died. As i watched, you see all of Mr. Fredrickson's dreams crumble to ashes. I literally started crying in the theater, thinking "FUCK!!! I've pissed my life away! I'm not gonna let that happen to me" so i started doing the things i wanted to experience. 10 years later, no regrets!

Project Mayhem was somehow accomplished on september 11th 2001...

Great channel Tyler! You're videos have genuinely helped me to grow as a writer, much appreciation.

I just watched this movie for the first time and that line about being a generation of men raised by women really resonated with me. Besides the movie having a profound message about society, the song that plays at the very end is just great, perfect ending. Him standing there holding Marla's hand, both of them looking out at the buildings exploding while "where is my mind" plays, so nostalgically 90's.

After watching it for the 1st time at 22 I'm 100% for the destruction of our shackles. Even moreso after watching it a 2nd time. My favorite part is watching the buildings go down. They made them fall straight down rather than partially or fall over. It shows sincerity towards their idea of this being for the people, not just themselves, as Tyler mentioned before.

I believe that if nothing truly matters, then it is up to us to make meaning. One can tear it down, or one can chase the few things that truly fulfill us without the regard for others. But the problem is that humans live for others just as much as we live for ourselves…

I always thought of structure as a skeleton. Sure it can stand, and u can even make it walk but it doesn't mean it has a heart or a soul. Look at asian cinema or literature; most of them don't bother with structure. Yet some of their work stick under ur skin for days.

i understand this movies on a spiritual philosophy level still got a lot to learn

I was in college when this theaters and I loved it so much I saw it six times before it left the theaters. My all time favorite movie 🍿

The beauty of this masterpiece is, how many ways it can be interpreted/understood. It makes sense in so many ways. One of my favourite films of all time.

It’s more relevant now then ever before !!

Man you are a great screenwriting teacher ❤️

1999 was a special year for movies.

Fight club was my first exposure to reality. When I began to embrace adversity. The left hand path.

I believe the movie having a disjointed structure was done very purposefully, this wasn’t just a regular movie for entertainment, it was a message to you. Because of it being disjointed it actually has you aware and it makes the scenes very long and stand out, it’s this precise reason that it sticks to your head and memory, because there’s nothing like it. This isn’t a regular movie, the was a message and an idea that the director wanting to tell you about

"Why we should study any david fincher film"

You broke the first two rules. EXCELLENT WORK, SIR!

Changed my life this movie , in many ways ! I always had developed these beliefs ….however the movie validated them and told me many other guys feel the same way . The movie really did change my life , my thinking , and validated / reaffirmed my thinking 🤔

Very interesting point from a writers perspective. This definitely helps with understanding why stories can be so captivating!

I have never agreed with the idea that human creation and ideas arent "natural", because humans are natural. Human beings came from nature just like everything else "natural", and separating ourselves from the rest of nature speaks to a certain hubris and superiority complex that alot of people have.

Thank you Tyler for all your videos!

I remember our professor made us watch this movie in my first year of college in Critical Thinking class!! 😂😂

Fight Club is cool, until you talk about it too much. The film is better off left alone, for each individual person (men especially) to get what they need from it and leave it at that. Also, it's rule #1

I feel like there’s a lot more that could’ve been said about this movie. And many more deeper concepts than just political or philosophical ideas. However, your insight was indeed enjoyable and it’s clear that you were tired of this video, so thank you very much I enjoyed it.❤

I subscribed! Thank you for being there!

All the people who have the name Tyler are great

There's two types of Tyler's in this world. One that talks about Fight Club and one that doesn't.

Hey, in one of your videos you discuss the concept of the Open Ended Arc, and the more I think about it the more I love the concept. However i'm having trouble actually creating one, I was wondering if you ever had plans on making a video that can explore the concept further.

Great content. Glad to have discovered it!

Amazing video. Going to rewatch the film. However, the things that you said have helped me write and think about my own stories and films that im writing/directing.

This is probably my favorite movie Of all time. 1999 was just a good year for movies. And the philosophical ideas of the movie makes it great as well.

This was a genius made film and the writers blew the industry away!

Fight Club is a great movie. I didn't know it was going to be a lesson on writing, but nothing wrong with that. Thought maybe it was going to be more of a discussion on what was being said in the movie. Life is meaningless with or without the system we live in now. There will always be a way of living, whether purely natural or helped with our imagination, that also being natural to use our imaginations to help our survival. Just saying you can't really get away from the meaningless factor, it's there all the time, we just try to think of others things as meaningful. When asked, "Do you think life is hopeless?" I say, "No, not at all. It's just pointless. You can hope for a point all you want though."

Patrice O Neal said it best, “Fight Club is a movie for lame dudes.” That hit me in the feels.

I as a woman have already been through so much hell with an alcoholic verbally abusive Dad. Bullied all throughout school. Boys almost assaulted me and one pushed me against a desk in front of everyone. Several Near-Death Experiences…. And happened both in the US and Ecuador a 3rd-world country. I don’t know how these “men” look like they haven’t gone through nothing

I definetly agree with alot of views in this movie. However I think the solution is unclear, or maybe the solution to our problem is something I'm subconsciously not willing to accept that everything needs to come down because that means me and my children

This made me cry, bravo!!

Simple and good explanation 👍

You can't understand Fight Club unless you've lived it. If you can give up everything you own and go out to the world and truly find yourslelf by going through hell and come out on top, this is when you've finally opened your eyes to the reality of knowing all the materialistic things that you thought was the badge of honer no longer become the object of the importance but understanding life itself is the true value. You can watch Fight Club and feel like you're Tyler Drden, is a laughable joke of a life time. You don't know you until you alone have truly have experienmced life in the gutters of life and survived to tell about it. I have lived this life and came out on top! Therefore I can tell you this!

I remember when the Beatles were a 20 year old phenomenon. Loved Fight Club when it came out. Love it still.

I remember watching this for the first time and having more questions than answers! One of the greatest movies of my time.

Another great video! Thank you

Mr Robot is really similar in terms of plot

I feel you've missed a major aspect of the film by not acknowledging its usage of mythological themes and the deeper (liminal/paradoxical) meaning those themes underscore. Campbell's conception of the monomyth clearly describes the setup to the movie years before the novel or movie were produced: "Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative. Walled in boredom, hard work, or "culture," the subject loses the power of significant affirmative action and becomes a victim to be saved. His flowering world becomes a wasteland of dry stones and his life feels meaningless-even though, like King Minos, he may through titanic effort succeed in building an empire of renown. Whatever house he builds, it will be a house of death: a labyrinth of cyclopean walls to hide from him his Minotaur. All he can do is create new problems for himself and await the gradual approach of his disintegration."

I love your videos! Keep going bro 🎬

After rewatching fight club a 2nd time it became my favorite movie

Would you make a video about David Lynch, and why so many bad film students seem to misunderstand what makes him good?

I loved the Alter Ego part in this movie...

Thank you bro..👌❤️❤️

Very well put. I like your clearly presented case for your take on the film. I appreciate your passion for such a topic. If you do happen to see this comment, I'm curious as to why you stopped short for the "philosophical conflict?" I don't think you're off, I think it runs deeper. In laymans terms, the movie is about the battle between the head and the heart. I'd stab, that the conflict you so accurately deduced, is held between the head and the heart. It's a fairly common trope, which is best exposed in the climax, where the head learns how to control his heart. Through his experience, he learns how to control his heart. And through the same experience, he trains it and discovers the power of having them in a closer sync. It's a play on an old chinese proverb, "better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war" Now thats obviously a simplistic explanation. But it's how I see the film. I do like the fatherless home perspective. That was something I missed watching it. Subbed!

great video one thing that stood out to me is when he said that we created this world where everything is clean, sterile and safe but humans are not made for that I also think this and to me it raises another question: If we humans are not made for this safe and sterile world then why did we create it? It seems to be doing more negative than positive

Anything with FIGHT CLUB Ok i'm there

Very good video, it touched me do deeply and spiritually. All these questions we all have like ,,What is the meaning of my life?" And ,,Is there something better?" Are explained in this video using Fight Club. It made me think, like really think about all of this life and the miserable people and every single thing that we have created.

I went into a state of denial when you said the film is 2 decades old. Oh god. Great video! Fight Club was my introduction to Chuck Palahniuk and I went all in.

Thinking about critical thinking itself, as it sits at the center of Fight Club and at the introduction of this very deconstruction, something feels weird about the concept of learning to think critically. As if some people don't have the ability to think critically. And I can easily see where this notion comes from. So much of today's ideological dogma is wrapped around logical fallacy and antithetical behaviors to concepts in direct contrast with those who claim to believe in them. Like critical race theory. Attempting to dismantle racism by binding the entirety of a person's identity to their race. Making race the defining attribute of a person. Bolstering the ideological importance of race. And as such, creating more racism. It would appear that people are lacking the ability to think at all. But I'd wager that it's more wilful ignorance than anything. People choose to look the other way, and people choose to act under the guise of false ideals, not because they can't recognize the truth they're ignoring but because this allows them to justify their behavior and feelings. It's easier to them. It's the same reason people fight for their depression to be a byproduct of chemical imbalance and nothing else. Not because of the empty life they lead in an empty world devoid of purpose or meaning or genuine connection. Not because of personal choices they've made. But because their "brain is broken." Because it strips them of personal responsibility and, therefor, of guilt. People know damn well that they're disingenuous in their ideologies and how they choose to perceive the world around them. But truth doesn't matter to them. They live a life devoid of virtue as they're without meaning. They would rather bend their perspective to alleviate feelings of guilt and shame and personal responsibility rather than face up to their own dogmatic identity. I absolutely refuse to believe people out here don't have the ability to comprehend sense. The majority of it must be choice.

I just don’t get why everyone keeps breaking the 1 and only rule.

3:15 one of the many and I truly mean many great examples in this movie this truly was a work of art

Great analysis of a great film. Well done.

It's ironic to see so many men take to Tyler's ideology, seen in film which is art. They can find this meaning they seek IN art (like the dead poets society parallel quote) but instead they choose the more masculine and destructive lens which was articulated to them IN an art piece (the film). To the men who missed the message of fight club and want to be Tyler: If you love film, love it, and fall back in love with life through that love and don't create insecurity in the world from your own

Well as much as I love this movie I can't study because I don't need to lol. See I had insomnia really bad when I first saw Fight Club. Naturally I became hooked. Not only was the insomnia relatable, but, the Narrator's emptiness was too. See I haven't really broken out of this mindset. It's addicting. "It's only after we've lost ever, we're free to do anything". That's a scary quote.

This was an excellent take.👍