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It's very white technically (cast), but its various messages speak more to class struggle and patriarchy which affect all the races, so I personally wouldn't consider it a "white movie" in the same sense as some others in this thread.
GATTACA is about class struggle while being exceptionally white about it
I never got any "antipatriarchal" vibes from Fight Club, maybe I should watch it again, lol. It did feel very "nihilistic anger and sadness that turns into violence", it made me feel like I was listening to Papa Roach or Evanescence (which are as white as art can get, and I enjoy both just for the record, I had the CDs and everything!).
Fight Club at its core is about how society fails to provide men a safety net for their emotions / personal development and instead pushes them to things like consumerism and unrealistic expectations of masculinity. This is what triggers the narrator to become nihilistic, angry, and eventually violent. The reason society is the way it is towards men is because it was set up that way by the patriarchy to keep them in their societal place and so that capitalism can keep capitalizing.
There's lots of articles about it (and how its so often misunderstood). I'd also recommend the book, as the different ending drives the point home in a different way imo.
Interesting point about evanecessence (JFC what a word to spell). I get more depression rather than anger from them lol
I agree with everything in your first paragraph up until the last sentence! But I don't wanna start a long argument (which happens to me often... I'm starting to think I'm the reason ๐) and hijack the thread, if that's okay. I'll definitely read the lit hub article though, and thanks for the comprehensive reply. ๐
I think I'd still say it's a white movie. It's about masculinity, consumerism, and class which are universal challenges, but it looks at them through the lens of how they impact white men.