Twenty-five years on, “Fight Club” punches harder than ever

Contrary to the rules, people have never stopped talking about “Fight Club”, whether they consider it profound, offensive, pretentious or silly. Particularly among men of a certain age, it is a cultural monument of its era. As cult classics should, it had a limp run in cinemas but became a sensation on DVD, spawning copycat incidents, endless parodies and enduring controversy (its fascination with violence has been labelled “fascist”). A quarter of a century on it has lost none of its punch. The reverse is true. It resonates more today than in the tame late 1990s.