>>81339456>Fight Club isn't still about about a guy descending into psychosis because of his subservient, domesticated and monotonous lifeYes, but the book makes it much more plain that
Tyler Durden is a forming a cult and also has no real plans for changing anything other than the narrator's life. Fincher's movie is what sold Durden as an AnPrim with abs, too cool to realize he's just regurgitating "Ishmael". Fincher can't help but put a glossy sheen on everything he films, even unpleasant shit like urban decay in Seven to infidelity in Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
American Psycho is revealed to not even be
one guy, it's instead is wither multiple people, or even just a bunch of character traits that Easton associates and with Wall Street hustle culture. Again, Christian Bale's physique is doing the heavy lifting for a lot of guys, because in text you're left with the same feeling as every other Ellis novel: man, these people are just cunts but maybe they'd be tolerable if they didn't snort so much cocaine.
TL;DR: Yes, both novels bitch about modern-ish society, but if the movies had cast character actors instead of ripped leading movie stars, I don't think we'd still be having this discussion as often.
