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The cinematography in this movie is just incredible...


Setting aside everything else that makes it such a resonant and astonishing work of art(I am a Millennial who saw this film at the movies when it first came out, loved it at the time, and if anything love it even more now than then), I do find it rather surprising that no one here seems to share the awe I have always been in of Jeff Cronenweth's amazing camerawork on this film.

Fight Club has a very surreal and dream like look to it, but in a subtle way that perhaps you can't put your finger on. The desaturated colors, graded slightly toward a cold green hue in many scenes, a slight yellow in others, and a slight blue in still others--in keeping with David Fincher's signature visual style--sharp contrast(possibly the sharpest I've ever seen in a motion picture), graininess, grubbiness, which likewise seems unique to this film, under-exposure often coupled with Cronenweth's use of the Panaflasher, and ever-so-slightly unnatural use of lighting all merge to form a simultaneously raw, grimy, and stylish visual palette that should take away the breath of any film lover.

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Yeah I agree it's a pretty amazing movie that never gets old! I don't understand how anybody could not like it!

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