Brutal 90s thriller with one of the most ingenious twists of all time

For a limited time only, Netflix is ​​giving you one of the best films of the 1990s. In it, a small man hopes to rise up against the big capitalist system.

It is one of the great cult films of the 1990s and you shouldn't say a word about it. But in view of the impending expulsion from Netflix, we'll make an exception and tell you that “Fight Club” until 14 September 2024 is available on the streaming service.

In “Fight Club,” director and screenwriter David Fincher tells the story of an extremely depressed man (Edward Norton) who is in a deep crisis in his life. He suffers from insomnia, hates his job and detests society's focus on superficial consumption. But when the crazy soap salesman Tyler Durden (Bratt Pitt) enters his life, his situation changes suddenly. Because the two men managed to escape from their ordinary everyday lives and found a club of a different kind: the infamous Fight Club, in which neglected men beat each other to death. The American psychological thriller is based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk.

With “Fight Club”, David Fincher has staged a first-class anarchy trip that will completely captivate you with its creative stylistic devices. The duo in the foreground will take you for 139 minutes into a renegade world full of ruthlessness, embarrassment and brutality, in which modern consumer society is uninhibitedly torn apart. If you want to experience Edward Norton and Brad Pitt at their absolute best or just want to see capitalism shaken to its foundations, then “Fight Club” is exactly the right place for you. A crazy psycho trip of a very special kind.

And speaking of a special punch: In order to make the film experience as dirty and evil on an auditory level as it is on a visual level, the sound department came up with something exciting, according to IndieWire. Instead of using celery wrapped in plastic wrap as usual for the sounds of the punches and simulating the sounds of a fist fight with the vegetable, the filmmakers took chicken carcasses, pressed walnuts into them and beat the meat. They then mixed the result with the celery sounds and the sounds of hitting their own chest, making the brutality of the bloodthirsty images audible. You can find more exciting film trivia in our video:

The success of “Fight Club”

When “Fight Club” hit theaters in 1999, the brutal film crashed at the box office. The film was made with a budget of 63 million US dollars, but only managed to make 100.8 million US dollars worldwide, which represented a heavy loss for Twentieth Century Fox. However, Edward Norton blamed the film studio for the financial flop, because in an interview with PeopleTV (via Comicbook.com) the now 53-year-old actor revealed:

“I think some of the people who were marketing the film were hesitant to accept the idea that it was funny, and frankly I think she felt embarrassed by it. I think if you felt more like the guy who plays my boss in the film, you probably wouldn't get as much out of the film.”

“Fight Club” ultimately became a success in the home cinema and was revered as an absolute cult film among film fans. On Rotten Tomatoes, the specialist press gave the film a rating of 79%, while audiences celebrated it with a magnificent 96%. The situation is similar on Metacritic, where critics only gave it 66 out of 100 points, while the user score was an impressive 8.9 out of 10. In the International Movie Database (IMDb), the title has 8.8 out of 10 stars, which puts “Fight Club” in 13th place of the 250 best films of all time.

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