Film Review Wizardry
As screenwriter and director, first-timer Gregg has his work cut out for him wrangling Palahniuk’s unwieldy provocations and off-topic asides into a remotely coherent narrative structure. He’s also got an impossible act to follow, as back in 1999 David Fincher applied a prankish wide-screen wizardry to the author’s tonally and thematically similar Fight Club. Blessed with more than 20 times the paltry indie budget of Choke, Fincher ramped up all sorts of mind-blowing special effects and glossy directorial curlicues, finding an elastic visual corollary for Palahniuk’s saw-toothed prose.

Sean Burns on Choke

I once walked into a poetry open mike many years ago clutching a copy of Chokee. Having not started to read it, I scanned through it and picked a page and a half and instructed the crowd to oink everytime I said the word pig. It didn't go overr too well.