what hits me is how prescient it was, released in 1999 and feels more on point than ever, I watched it last year, before The Killer
The 90's were an era of prosperity, amid the professional class during the Clinton years, but towards the end there was this shift into a kind of dark ennuni, navel gazing type of thing, like is that what we got with our degrees and marriages? A house in the suburbs and a dead marriage? Look at Office Space. American Beauty. Fight Club. All released in 1999.
Fight Club was seen as too angry, too unbelievable, too dark, but what do the army of men seem like in 2024? or 2014? Now, that's a major political party almost. Populisim, mixed with nihilism, as opposed to the vaugely neo liberal politics of prosperity, that most of the office workers probably followed before their conversion.
As a movie, the first 45 minutes are the strongest. The narrative strength of the rest is weaker. As a kid, 14 years old, watching it around January 2000, it was over my head, but still captivating.
I can't go back to watch it as I was that addicted to the flick. The talking points of consumerism, fighting for whats real, and understanding the beast of society made me into a monster back in my young adult marsupial days. One of my favorite Fincher flicks, but that shyt is that spiritual on the marsupial where I have to keep the flick in the past and keep it a trucking.
Trying not to go back to the old me. Especially nowadays, I would crash out messing with that movie on God.
White people’s Scarface