1999 · thriller · drama
Fight Club
Directed by David Fincher2h 19m1999
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Our read: Fight Club (1999) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Fight Club counts for 2 challenges
Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
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