A different movie, post 9/11

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2003)

I saw this film when it first came out and just loved it. Watched it twice in a row - the second time picking up on the clues left. However, I saw the film a month or so after 9/11 and was jarred by what a different experience it was. And I think the key factor is that it is a movie that appealed very much to self-professed anarchists, of which I confess I've always considered myself. The idealized version. 9/11 was the actuality. Admittedly, the motives were completely different and I still think the primary messages in Fight Club - the numbing half-sleep we navigate life in, what does it take to feel alive, what is it to be a man in today's world, the anti-consumerism riffs - these are all relevant and unscathed. It just made me rethink monkeywrenching a bit.