10 Films That Stick It To The Man

The alter ego of an unbalanced office worker, Tyler Durden blames consumer culture for leading people to believe they can be movie stars and millionaires when in fact they’re corporate slaves working jobs they hate to buy stuff they don’t need.

This strikes a chord and it’s not long before Tyler is inducting people into Project Mayhem, a glorified terrorist group whose first rule is, “You do not ask questions.” By portraying corporations as the worthy target of their wrath, he’s able to convince his followers to carry out his orders even when they involve destruction on a mass scale.

Fight Club’s anarchic spirit appalled critic Alexander Walker, who famously called the movie, “not only anti-capitalism but anti-society and, indeed, anti-god”, perhaps forgetting that it also shows the flipside of rebellion. The characters are young men lacking purpose or direction who are effectively brainwashed by a charismatic leader into committing unspeakable acts of violence.

Is this movie prescient or what?