High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1999 American film Fight Club was directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter, presents social commentary about consumerist culture and its effects on masculinity. The film has been the source of critical analysis. Academics Jans B. Wager describes the film as retro-noir, while Keith Gandal defines it as a slumming trauma. Cultural critics Henry Giroux and Imre Szeman assert that Fight Club focuses too much on consumerist culture as society`s problem. Academic Robert von Dassanowsky describes Fight Club as an examination of European fascism.