Based on the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahnuik, David Fincher's Fight Club (1999) is the provocative story of a thirty-year-old male undergoing a profound spiritual crisis in postmodernist, capitalist America.
In Episode 1 of EveryMan: The Masculinity in Cinema Podcast, film critics Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterio break the first and second rules of Fight Club to re-examine this misunderstood masterwork and argue its case as a post-punk marvel with a hopeful and uplifting message.
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