This film will be more enjoyable for those who see it first and then read this analysis because, like The Sixth Sense or The Crying Game, Fight Club has a secret, which this discussion will reveal. As does Natural Born Killers (www.geomatics.kth.se/sjoberg/homepage/nbk.htm), this film addresses morality and society by using the motif of violence. But like that film, it is not primarily about violence any more than Dog …showed first 75 words of 3076 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3076 total…one's testicles. Fight Club's themes of honor and freedom (perhaps attainable through total disengagement from society and perhaps by starting over) remains complex and contradictory, as do its exploration of individual work and group power. Ultimately this film, directed by David Fincher (Seven, 1995; The Game, 1997) does not coalesce perfectly, but its themes and images are rich with meaning and it is one of the deepest explorations of modern masculinity within the working class to date.