Fight Club’s Eerie Relevance - How Its Predictions Came True

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Did Fight Club kind of predict the future we’re living in? Though it’s long been a cult-classic, the 1999 movie directed by David Fincher and based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk has, in much of pop culture, been reduced to – or misread as – a simplistic argument for violence and validating male frustration. But this whole conversation – and the film’s co-option by elements of the alt-right “manosphere” – loses a lot of what the movie was actually saying.

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00:00 Fight Club actually got a lot right about our society!
01:45 MUBI
02:34 What Fight Club says about the dread of hyper-capitalism
05:15 What to do (and not do) when it comes to navigating the world
07:44 A crisis of masculinity and an improper reading
11:13 So what's the final conclusion we can draw?

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