A response to the "feminization of America"

Rating: 9/10 (19 April 2017)

Fight Club, alongside The Talented Mr. Ripley and Hannibal, is an American film released at the turn of the 21st century that examines European fascism through cinematic metaphor and explores fascism's cultural and sexual politics. Fight Club's portrayal of the paramilitary Project Mayhem represents a response to the "feminization of America," and the portrayal is reminiscent of the creation of Nazism in response to the "decadent" Weimar Republic of Germany. In the film, the counter to the feminized male is a model of male that is an identity-less, violent and destructively nihilistic cadre that intends to discipline a world gone too tolerant.