Is Fight Club’s Tyler Durden film's most misunderstood man?

As the 20th anniversary of the Chuck Palahniuk adaptation approaches, its lead character has become an unironic poster-boy for men’s rights, writes David Barnett.

When David Fincher’s movie of Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel Fight Club was released 20 years ago, it polarised the critics.

Many people just did not know which way to jump on this twisted allegory about an American wage slave, played by Edward Norton, who is a cog in the capitalist economy and does his bit to keep all the other cogs turning. He assesses insurance claims for a living and in turn spends the money he earns on things he thinks he needs from the Ikea catalogue.