Similar to Fight Club: 10 Films To Watch If You Loved Dunkirk 5. Cheap Thrills made me flinch, wince, smirk, and eventually marvel in cognizance of this dark allegory. The intriguing premise is built to shock but what surprises one is its ability to eventually mesmerize by gruesome satire. Let’s prove to this race that divisions of society into classes is the singular most tragic misstep of human conscience. Let us wear the proverbial crown of thorns and succumb to carnal pleasures. Or shred each and every iota of decency and let wilderness rule. Let us all fall from grace and become barbaric. Cheap Thrills (2013)įor once, let us peel off our masks and be savages. Vicious, important, and an absolute eye-opener to the malevolent practices of mammoth Investment Banks at that juncture, Inside Job is a sincere attempt to capture culprits on screen in the aftermath of the meltdown of global proportions. Shocking in equal parts as it is distressing, the Financial Crisis of 2008 is a reminder that people at top of the corporate chain are mere humans, capable of debauchery, frauds, greed, and may contain deep rooted flaws. It happened in 2008 and Inside Job never holds back into detailing the fundamental faults that made the reality look even stranger than fiction. It was the wet dream of Tyler Durden to see the economic structures broken down to nothingness, to see the world plunge into a state of financial chaos. Jacob’s Ladder in its entirety plays many mind games of which Tyler Durden would surely be proud of. The Vietnam War had already resulted in many great narratives over the ’80s, but this topsy turvy psychological drama having biblical beasts coming out of walls is as far out the symbolism of horrors of war as there can be. The sense of constant paranoia, mistrust, plentiful obscure visions, and the convoluted line between dreams and reality, Jacob’s Ladder rolls these oddballs into a joint of weird hallucinatory power, one which messes with your brains the more you think about it. Immensely gorgeous to look at and infinitely enthralling in its scope, it is the living embodiment of free spirit and making peace with ourselves. It’s as if we have let go of all the capitalistic needs of society and accepted our primitive selves.Ĭaptain Fantastic is sweetly hilarious and heartbreakingly moving. It’s as if we have reshaped our language back to its primal senses, shunning away the euphemisms so that our feelings are no longer merely camouflaged masks. It’s as if our eternal sun has engulfed the artificiality of society and all that remains is bright light of healing. The narrator in Fight Club felt the ebbing flow of violence underneath all his calm but William Foster (Michael Douglas) takes that feeling into chaotic proportions of madness.įalling Down may not have received the same cult status as most of the others in the list, but Joel Schumacher roped and introduced the capitalist transgression to silver screens in ’92 much before Fight Club saw the daylights. There often comes a time when the strings break down, when a man rises from the depth of failures and corporate pressures to redeem his own self when the shackles are broken and the freedom gets even more addictive than heroine. PS: Do not blame us for every second you waste on this webpage. Related to Fight Club: Every David Fincher Film Ranked Instead, rattle down this purposeless list, made by one space monkey for all the others out there, and indulge yourselves in the sins of self-gratification. Let us abide by the rules ratified by His Highness and keep our mouths shut. Let us be done with this useless introductory gibberish whose only purpose is to fill the void of the webpage. Now, enough of the trashy pseudo-intellectual bullshit. We are Jack’s Smirking Anger and maybe, just maybe, losing all hope will eventually be the only key to freedom. The gospel, that is Fight Club, written by Chuck Palahnuik later spread by David Fincher is still burning bright in our hearts, the fire all flamed by the recent global developments. Tyler Durden is still the familiar graffiti painted across barren walls in dark and desolate alleys, Project Mayhem sounds like the spiritual guide this decade needs and basements of every after-office pubs are discreetly inviting lonesome corporate prisoners to free themselves from their own tired selves.
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