This film is about fascism - and no one notices.

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 2002)

Germans normally have a sensitivity for fascism because they fell for Hitler some time ago. Today most of them notice, when things go into that direction and counteract. Americans can't handle fascism because they never lived it. They fall for charismatic people all the time. Remember "Starship Troopers"? As opposed to the Europeans, the American audience took this whole thing seriously - but ST was meant to mock fascist propaganda flicks. "Fight Club" is far more sublime. Tyler Durden installs fascist mechanisms like "We don't have names". All the "fighters" fall for Tyler and his charisma. They establish a "Führerkult". Individuals don't exist. Remember the "brain wash" scene. Many dialogues contain quotes from "Mein Kampf" or sentences similar to that. You fall for fascism and you don't notice. You feel great. That's the dangerous thing.
Of course, the film has many more aspects. But fighting is not the point of the movie, nor is it the split personality. They only means of expression.
Watch again and THINK. And compare with sentences of Hitler and politicians today. It's always dangerous to follow someone blindly - Fight Club shows what happens.

10 out of 10 (a masterpiece)