121 - Fight Club

Get access to 50 bonus episodes for a pledge as low as $2/month at our Patreon!Jen and Tim talk about a movie that people still like to misinterpret wildly even twenty years later: Fight Club!Read Alexander Walker’s excoriating review from the Evening Standard.'The movie gradually makes its analogy with Nazi Germany even more overt. Pitt and Norton raid liposuction waste dumpsters at night, retrieving “the richest cream fat in the world”, that’s been siphoned out of the obese, and rendering it into red soap tablets they then flog to exclusive boutiques. It’s unbelievable any film would dare use, even as such a sick gag, a sequence reminiscent of that chapter of the Holocaust in which Nazi thoroughness rendered the Jews down into similar, no doubt less pricy soap bars. But Fight Club has no reticence, no memory, no shame.'The performance artist Tim mentioned is Emma Varker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.