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Fight Club 1999
The satire of this movie hits so much harder 22 years later. But keeping in mind what the late-90s were like, it makes sense that so many dudes took it purely at face value and made Fight Club some kind of soft manifesto. I do wonder how much of the style and slickness here is commentary about the presentation of consumerism, and how much is just Fincherian gloss on the material. Ultimately, I would rather this movie didn't exist than…
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