Before the cult 1999 film began streaming in China, censors drastically changed the ending so that the anarchist narrator is caught and punished for his crimes.
So your post is basically spot on and I don't disagree with any of your analysis....except that I would argue its not an endorsement of the machismo fascist revolution so much as it is a cautionary tale about one. I wouldn't go so far as to call the movie leftist but its very explicit within the text that the narrator is deeply ill mentally, listening to his id as represented by Tyler has essentially destroyed his life, and that his entire 'movement' is a death driven cult based on the false conscious psuedo intellectual ramblings of an abusive lunatic. The narrator's whole character arc concludes in him rejecting Tyler and accepting his feelings for Marla.
Sure, a lot of people missed that entire point and still view Durden as aspirational but its hardly alone in that camp (American History X, Watchmen, WH40k, et al.)
So your post is basically spot on and I don't disagree with any of your analysis....except that I would argue its not an endorsement of the machismo fascist revolution so much as it is a cautionary tale about one. I wouldn't go so far as to call the movie leftist but its very explicit within the text that the narrator is deeply ill mentally, listening to his id as represented by Tyler has essentially destroyed his life, and that his entire 'movement' is a death driven cult based on the false conscious psuedo intellectual ramblings of an abusive lunatic. The narrator's whole character arc concludes in him rejecting Tyler and accepting his feelings for Marla.
Sure, a lot of people missed that entire point and still view Durden as aspirational but its hardly alone in that camp (American History X, Watchmen, WH40k, et al.)
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