-Men's role in society is vastly changing due to the feminist movement of the 1970's and women in the workplace.
-The primary subject and focus of the movie Fight Club is the generation of men born in America since the 60s, while certainly the film will appeal to both sexes, men and masculinity will be central to the discussion.
-The movie is primarily about the relationship between Tyler and Jack, which takes seems to be a father-son type relationship, in the sense that the father is a role model for the son.
-Through Tyler, Jack experiences an awakening from a group called Fight Club, in which men get together in a basement and fight one another for the simple pleasures of fighting and bonding with one another.
-Roger Ebert describes Fight Club as "the most frankly and cheerfully fascist big-star movie since 'Death Wish,' a celebration of violence in which the heroes write themselves a license to drink, smoke, screw and beat one another up.
-Fight Club is incredibly popular among young men because young men can identify with the film, men work the tedious jobs that Jack and Tyler suffer through to survive, and they are victims of the same feelings that Jack suffers from.
-Fight Club speaks to listless and directionless young men in a calculated attempt to shock and disturb them from their mundane slow deaths and it speaks to and shocks women in an attempt to wake them up to the way the change in society is damaging and killing their sons, brothers, and husbands.
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