Fight Club Critics Questions and
Answers
Alexander Walker - answer Compares film to Nazi Germany. Echoes propaganda
Jewish Critics - answer As a paradigm of the Hitler State
Robert Ebert - answer Macho porn. Message isn't clear. Tyler Durden is a bully.
Peter Bradshaw - answer Twist ending doesn't work
Janet Maslin - answer Might require a second viewing. Tacitly homoerotic bouts
between these two becomes addictive.
James Berardinelli - answer You can know the whole plot and still be blown away.
Memorable and superior motion picture.
Scott Mantz - answer Negative influence on society
Amy Taubin - answer Tyler is the protagonist's significant other
Henry Giroux - answer Homosexual relationship. Marla screws the narrator on an
almost hourly basis.
Susan Faludi - answer The man and the woman clasp hands in what could be a
mutual redemption. A quasi-feminist tale.
Jennifer Kesler - answer Marla is a catalyst for Jack to mature
Chuck Palahniuk (author) - answer The whole story is about a man reaching the
point where he can commit to a women
Anita M Busch - answer Socially irresponsible in a nation that had deteriorated to the
point of columbine. They should hang their head for setting fine entire industry back
Peter Travers - answer It's all about being young, make and powerless against the
pacifying drug of consumerism
Laura Malvey - answer Male Gaze. Camera in the perspective of a heterosexual
man. Women only get a secondary perceptive of themselves and see themselves as
objects to men.
Answers
Alexander Walker - answer Compares film to Nazi Germany. Echoes propaganda
Jewish Critics - answer As a paradigm of the Hitler State
Robert Ebert - answer Macho porn. Message isn't clear. Tyler Durden is a bully.
Peter Bradshaw - answer Twist ending doesn't work
Janet Maslin - answer Might require a second viewing. Tacitly homoerotic bouts
between these two becomes addictive.
James Berardinelli - answer You can know the whole plot and still be blown away.
Memorable and superior motion picture.
Scott Mantz - answer Negative influence on society
Amy Taubin - answer Tyler is the protagonist's significant other
Henry Giroux - answer Homosexual relationship. Marla screws the narrator on an
almost hourly basis.
Susan Faludi - answer The man and the woman clasp hands in what could be a
mutual redemption. A quasi-feminist tale.
Jennifer Kesler - answer Marla is a catalyst for Jack to mature
Chuck Palahniuk (author) - answer The whole story is about a man reaching the
point where he can commit to a women
Anita M Busch - answer Socially irresponsible in a nation that had deteriorated to the
point of columbine. They should hang their head for setting fine entire industry back
Peter Travers - answer It's all about being young, make and powerless against the
pacifying drug of consumerism
Laura Malvey - answer Male Gaze. Camera in the perspective of a heterosexual
man. Women only get a secondary perceptive of themselves and see themselves as
objects to men.
