Ep 27 - Fight Club w/ Alonso Duralde

The first rule about FIGHT CLUB is that you don’t podcast about FIGHT CLUB. Oh well. This week we have critic, author, & podcaster Alonso Duralde to talk about David Fincher’s 1999 confusing/confused cult favorite. Alonso talks about why this is a must-see queer film. Raphael discuss being the target demographic for the film when it came out and loving it then but not so much later. Raquel goes off about why she did not enjoy this one, whoo boy. Do the film’s politics actually stand for anything? Is it just smoke and mirrors? And how does FIGHT CLUB hold up now that we’ve seen actual violent white male revolt in the U.S.? A fun episode that is our first truly generational with Boomers, Gen X, and millennials representing!   The Generation Splice is film podcast where retired psychologist Dr. Raquel Martinez, a Baby Boomer through and through, & her son Raphael Jose Martinez, a cranky millennial punk rocker/former music journalist, & current film writer, discuss various films through the lens of their generation & personal experiences. Every week one host picks a film to dissect & see if they can splice together the generation gap via their love of film. Feel free to write to us! Give us some film suggestions at [email protected] or @gensplicepod on Twitter. Raphael is on Twitter at @citycelluloid. You can find his film writing at cinefile.info and film-cred.com The show is produced by The Martinez Family & the show’s theme song was written, performed, & produced by Raphael.