Subliminal Hollywood

Rating: 10/10 (23 January 2000)

It is difficult to talk about Fight Club without giving away crucial information so it is better to concentrate on the film's formal aspects.
With that said Fincher's film is formally the most interesting film out of Hollywood in years. It is productive to align it with John Boorman's "Point Blank" which also challenged the veracity of the image and that of the narrator/protagonist. It is nice to see that some of Hollywood's elite are still willing to be involved in intelligent cinema, even if it damages their marquee value. Finally to those who have seen the film and are going to see it again pay close attention to the first 30 minutes for the subliminal insertion of the image of Pitt's character. Fincher's film is full of all these details that are entirely significant without being excessively stylistic.