I'll try to follow my very emotionally healthy idols better

Fight club is all about the terrible consequences of not opening up emotionally
- Yeah but that would require them to pay attention to the story and reflect on it so they understand the consequences. For a lot of people, they never make those connections, and anything on the screen being depicted is also being encouraged and glorified in their minds.
  
  Ah. The Starship Troopers problem.
  
  Funny, I thought Fight Club was about the good guys winning the war against credit card companies with the power of domestic terrorism.
- Could've sworn it was a 139 minute Lynchian carousel about the dangers of insomnia and consumerism.
- The book maybe but the movie definitely glorifies the violence without direct context for why it’s wrong. At least to a degree that can be easily understood by the target audience of teenage boys.
  
  So, the director hid a swastika in one of the shadows to indicate that he thought the society was evil, among a ton of other things. He talked about it in the director's commentary. But yeah, it's actually super easy to miss unless you know it's actually a warning (which, like you said, the teenage boys it's marketed to wouldn't understand)... Which is kind of the problem with a lot of media, like the entire genre of cyberpunk.
  
  I loved the movie which made me read the book and then I understood the message. The book is fantastic.