It isn’t a hyperkinetic movie but, rather, one of a dazzling proliferation of precise moments organized around a point of stillness, and its speed depends on a quartet of notable recognitions. First, movie-and-video-steeped viewers are more perceptive than ever, more able than ever to extract salient narrative content from an image at a glance; second, Fincher is himself able to deliver that content with a superbly analytical eye and synthetic sense of composition; third, viewers are understood to be likely to see the movie many times, after its theatrical life, on home video; and, fourth, the book on which it’s based is so familiar that the details of its story can be flicked with a light brush and yet be fully and quickly grasped.