systemic critique" of societal conditions. Homoeroticism The film has been reviewed as using homoeroticism by reflecting specific gay themes and featuring the neurotic feelings about the gay lifestyle especially with the character Tyler Durden being described as a manifestation of the narrator's repressed desires and aspirations to break free of his lifestyle and in this case, possibly a gay projection of the main character. The usage of specific lines in the film such as, "I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer we need", "Three pitchers of beer, and you still can't ask. Cut the foreplay and just ask me. No one's watching, what do you care?" before the two characters get physical and beat each other following by the line, "We should do this again sometimes." have been reviewed as double entendres of gay sexual practices. The subtext of the discreet, anonymous encounters between two men in the back of a bar with the rule of Fight Club being, 'you don't ask and tell' is described to be male homosexuality and a metaphor for repressed homosexual tendencies. It is noted that the story is built around male-exclusive contact and intimacy which reflects homoerotic themes and narratives in the subtext. Also viewed from another aspect, the macho masochism of the film is believed to capture a tension not only of 90s masculinity ​but also 90s homo-masculinity, with Pitt's gym-honed physique, hairstyle, and roguish good looks mirroring the desire of gay men in the 90s and post-AIDS epidemic. With the relationship of the Narrator with Marla Singer being portrayed as dysfunctional and the character being disinterested and uncomfortable with her, so dissociated that at the end of the film it is revealed he was totally unaware that they even had sex, put together with the quote from the author of the book Palahniuk, "no one called the book romance" raises the question if the actual romance of the protagonist is not the female love interest, as the film concludes with a flash of a penis shot, (Tyler's habit of splicing porn into films), an explicitly gay moment suggesting that the desire of Tyler didn't go away even after his death. The heartbreak and jealousy of the Narrator as he and Tyler grow distant, their complimenting chemical burns in the shape of a kiss as a trope for matching tattoos are presumed to be innuendos of a romance. It is also