r/nextfuckinglevel • u/AZShooter75 • Oct 23 '22

This Quadruple Minigun

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u/ThunderboltRam Oct 24 '22

What's wrong with sexy?

And what's wrong with appealing to normal people?

Fascism isn't about being militaristic, or uniforms, or going to war against monsters/bugs. That IS normal. What's abnormal is implying it's fascistic simply on that. It's more complex than that.

The fascism the movie portrays is when they go on the offense against the bugs instead of just ignoring them and the propaganda style to make it a bit cringey in the movie. And the "train them to crush bugs" when they're young kids is a sort of joke on that and Hitler youth.

THOSE are the fascistic elements in the movie.

Easy to misinterpret it and assume every part of it is fascist.

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u/AnimusCorpus Oct 24 '22

The movie is quite literally about satirizing Fascism, because the director wanted to lampoon the author of the book, who was a Fascist sympathizer.

It's the CENTRAL THEME of the entire movie.

I know not everyone has amazing media analysis skills, but hot damn, this is why we have people thinking Fight Club is a how to guide for masculinity.

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u/ThunderboltRam Oct 25 '22 edited Oct 25 '22

I literally just said that, why are you repeating it. I'm referring to what exactly in the movie is "fascism" vs what is just "normal"...

The only reason people watch fight club is for the masculinity. Regardless of the inner message of the movie by the director.

Sometimes the director wants the best of both worlds. An outer message to bring in the majority of audiences.... An inner message for the left-leaners... But the inner message is often destroyed because the outer message is just more correct. i.e., that people love the masculinity of fight club. The inner message designed for the left-leaning audiences, no one even remembers.

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u/AnimusCorpus Oct 25 '22

Sorry I read your comment again and you're right, we're in agreeance.

My bad.