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The commentary tracks of Fight Club, the movie we're discussing.

I'm not saying redemption isn't present, I'm saying you're misinterpretting the redemption. It's clearly a redemption movie, but redemption is achieved by getting rid of his effeminate protection, embracing his pure pure id perona and finally working out the balance between the two. That's basically the point of the movie, that society has pushed us so far toward feminist thought that we must rebel to get our masculinity back, but not rebel too far. Tyler is right all the way up until he starts turning Fight Club into a secret army. Redemption in Fight Club is a too step process: first embracing Tyler then incorporating Tyler into the whole personality in a controllable and non-destructive way.

Maybe I misinterpret - but that army wins in the end. All the buildings do get blown up. That's my point - equality, not balance, is the ultimate aim of the message of this movie. Equality wins, and thus he wins the girl as himself AFTER he rejects the guy who invented fight club. Tyler never loses a fight, no one is "equal" to him, thus he must die. Tyler invents fight club, but that army gets to end up destroying the companies buildings. We are all equal at last! BTW, how is shooting off your own head a controllable, non-destructive way to be balanced?

Perhaps you see no merit at all in the theme of my whole essay, hollywood is trying to get people to buy the idea that guys can't get to manhood without submitting to her??