Winners, Losers & Lovers

With B. Luciano Barsuglia, Kenny Connolly, Andrew Kubasek, Andrew Roberts and Kyle Roberts.

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The first rule of Winners, Losers & Lovers is apparently that we’re absolutely going to talk about Fight Club.

More than twenty-five years after David Fincher unleashed Fight Club on audiences, we went back to see whether this dark, violent, funny, deeply cynical movie still deserves its reputation. Spoiler: we pick it apart a little…but we pretty much love the damn thing.

Brad Pitt has rarely been better. Edward Norton gives us one of the great unreliable narrators. Helena Bonham Carter is perfectly chaotic. Fincher is operating at another level. And once you know the truth about Tyler Durden, the movie becomes even more fascinating to rewatch as you notice just how many clues were sitting in plain sight.

But Fight Club isn’t going to work for everyone. It’s brutal, nihilistic, deliberately ugly at times, and its violence can easily overwhelm the ideas underneath it. And those ideas may be more relevant now than they were in 1999. Consumerism. Masculinity. Isolation. Identity. Corporate culture.

The promise that buying the right things will somehow make us happy. Men desperately searching for belonging and purpose—and becoming vulnerable to someone offering easy answers. Fight Club has plenty to say. The bigger question is whether we’ve been listening.

We break down the performances, the clues hiding throughout the movie, Tyler Durden’s philosophy, Project Mayhem, that ending, the controversy surrounding the film, and why a movie once attacked for its message may actually be warning us about the very people who embraced it.

Is Fight Club a WINNER, LOSER, or something we simply LOVE?

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