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.

One of the film’s biggest twists is the revelation that toxic macho-man Tyler Durden never actually existed to begin with.

We’re the middle children of history, man.

No purpose or place.

We have no Great War.

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Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.

But we won’t.

And we’re slowly learning that fact.

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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.”

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Tyler Durden is an invention of The Narrator’s mind.

But the film ends on an ominous note.

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