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The Game (1997)
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Fincher makes Nicholas's loss of control tactile, funny and frightening. The birthday-party revelation turns an apparently suicidal leap into a perfectly managed rescue, asking the organisers to have anticipated a remarkable number of uncontrolled choices. The elaborate nightmare can be read as a fable; for me, the comforting explanation leaves its practical risks less convincing than its original menace.
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In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.