Talking to a friend on fb chat, excerpts from discussion:
I think it's an angsty social commentary on the demasculisation of men in the modern world, delivered with a bit of a self-aware pseudo revolutionary jest.
Immature? Yes a little, but it's got some muthafuckin' merit.
The immaturity was just secondary to the them of demasculisation. That was just a form of backlash that these sissified men were imposing on this "sad bad mad world". And it was shown in the end NOT to be supporting these activities, and the whole movie in the end was about Jack's self realisation, which ironically, was him making peace with a woman. (who were wholly responsible for the whole cycle in the first place)
That being said, the "fuck you and your bullshit!" mentality was what originally grasped me.
As for the ending, that is where he finds his balance.
Where he conquers the immature and destructive reactionary impulse (Tyler) and comes to rest at an equilibrium, a self created "ground zero"
Where he can start anew, with his bitch.
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