The director of the 1999 cult classic thinks some fans may have missed the film’s message.
I see all this potential, and I see squandering.
God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars.
We’re the middle children of history, man.
No purpose or place.
We have no Great War.
Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.
But we won’t.
And we’re slowly learning that fact.
And we’re very,verypissed off."
“We didnt make it for them,” Fincher says of the film.
“But people will see what theyre going to see in a Norman Rockwell painting, or Guernica.”
Tyler Durden is an invention of The Narrator’s mind.
But the film ends on an ominous note.
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