"We are not born equal sinners, or perfect knock-offs of God. The world tells us whether we're heroes or victims. But, we can decide for ourselves."

Victor Mancini is a sex addict, who tries to pay for his mother's treatment in a hospital, a mother who has made Victor's life really weird and who suffers from dementia, and doesn't even realise that it's Victor visiting him. During the day Victor works as a Irish farm labourer in the 1700s, during the nights he chokes in restaurants.

I wanted to see the movie because I read the book. I'm a big fan of Chuck Palahniuk, I have been ever since I read Fight Club. Choke was the third book of his I read. Weird thing is, during the book I kinda imagined Victor Mancini as Michael Fassbender, and in the movie he was played by Sam Rockwell. It was kinda surprising, I mean they are very different actors. But to be honest Sam Rockwell was better for the part than Fassbender would be. To be honest I kinda didn't think Rockwell was this good. I was positively surprised.

I was kinda worried about the sex scenes. If I remember correctly, book had several. And I was worried that I might attract unwanted attention from my family even if I watch this in my room. Anyway, sex scenes weren't that... uncomfortably noisy. They were actually kinda stylish - you know, in the way that they were simply sex, since Victor is a sex addict and all, so they weren't too romantic, too stylish. But they weren't too close to porn. They just were. Usually I don't even mind sex scenes, but I just had to say this. 

Even though no movie is ever as good as the book, they kept the important stuff on the movie pretty well. Of course there was several scenes missing, but they didn't seem to matter that much. But not many scenes were added - I counted one, maybe two. Also could be one of those I just don't remember from the book. Anyway, movie was very good, if we think about if the movie is or isn't loyal to the book. Choke was very loyal to the book. And what's most important, it still held the gruesome but amazing philosophy Palahniuk's work always seems to has. Fight Club has that, so does Damned, so does Choke. It's amazing.

But of course book is better. But the movie is worth watching

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

8/10