I saw it for the first time this year and laughed more than anything because I saw the same mockery described in the OP. Besides Fight Club (as alluded to in the post title), Nightcrawler is another movie I love that I'm pretty sure most miss the point. Jake Gyllenhaal isn't the hero, he is a complete teardown of dead-eyed "underdog" ruthless psychopath willing to do whatever it takes to compete for the "American Dream".
It's a great little film but I'm not sure if most people's takeaway from it is a condemnation of capitalism, rather than the cut-throat media industry. For leftists yeah sure the message is loud and clear, for "apoliticals" however...
A more explicit film to this effect might be "99 francs".
I saw it for the first time this year and laughed more than anything because I saw the same mockery described in the OP. Besides Fight Club (as alluded to in the post title), Nightcrawler is another movie I love that I'm pretty sure most miss the point. Jake Gyllenhaal isn't the hero, he is a complete teardown of dead-eyed "underdog" ruthless psychopath willing to do whatever it takes to compete for the "American Dream".
It's a great little film but I'm not sure if most people's takeaway from it is a condemnation of capitalism, rather than the cut-throat media industry. For leftists yeah sure the message is loud and clear, for "apoliticals" however...
A more explicit film to this effect might be "99 francs".