They also directly interrogate our collective curiosity with genres like true crime, creating an experience that challenges more than it titillates. True crime makes no “political or moral demands” of us, and that’s in part what makes its consumption such a slippery slope. We consume true crime because it gives us a sense of resolution, of solving a crime, no matter how old it is. These stories are grueling challenges, the meat and potatoes compared to the junk food of true crime. Despite that subversion, audiences still get the same cozy feeling in Fincher’s work that they do from true crime.