The final scene in Fight club etches itself in the memory.

Actors Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter look out over an inferno of buildings being blown up - a picture of how a subversive movement destroys the consumer society.

But when the cult film from 1999 aired on the Chinese streaming service Tencent Video a few weeks ago, the final scene had been cut off.

Instead, the spectators were greeted by a black box, with the text "the police quickly managed to figure out the whole plan and arrest all the criminals, which meant that the bomb did not explode".

Criminals on film must be punished

Many people made fun of the clumsy censorship, and now the film has regained its original ending.

This is what the Hollywood reporter reports, among other things.

It also describes how a sticking point in Chinese censorship is that criminals on film must always be punished for their crimes, in order for the harmony in society to be restored.

This mainly applies to domestic films, but provides a background to why Fight club was redesigned.

Even though the film has come back to an end, some scenes are still cut.

It's about short sex scenes between Brad Pitt's and Helena Bonham Carter's characters.

Sex, and especially love between people of the same sex, often gets caught up in Chinese film censorship.