Films Don't Care About Your Feelings

This movie glamorizes the societal problem it intends to critique” is a familiar criticism. The first time I can remember hearing it was in reference to Fight Club, when critics complained that David Fincher’s film about disaffected and shiftless young men, getting together in basements and pummeling the shit out of each other just to feel something, was actually encouraging nihilism and violence and toxic masculinity. This notion, of the empty-headed simpleton who loves Fight Club for all the wrong reasons, was so pervasive that some people are still upset about it 20 years after the film’s release. Read Full Article »