SPOILERS! You've been warned.
Rated 18a
Last seen: January 2005
Fight Club
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter
Directed by: David Fincher
Orginal novel by: Chuck Palaniuk
CHARACTERS
Narrator - The main character. He sure is underwhelmed. Insomniac. Addicted to group therapy sessions. Yup, he's insane. Starts Fight Club with Tyler.
Tyler Durden - Narrator's best friend. Owns or squats as this piece of shit house in the industrial part. Starts Fight Club with Narrator, then moves on to Project Mayhem. Shoot in the head.
Marla Singer - Narrator can't decide if he hates her or loves her. Mostly, it seems like he just hates her. One weird suicidal chick who is also addicted to group therapy sessions.
Bob - Bob had bitch tits. A friend the Narrator met in Remaing Men, a therapy group for men with testicular cancer. Bob inadverdently joins Fight Club. Gets shot in the head.
Richard Chesler - Narrator boss. He's a man you love to hate, even though he really hasn't done anything.
The members of Fight Club and Project Mayhem - these are a wacky bunch of characters. Brainwashed by cult mentality, their number grows.
PLOT
The Narrator's life is a bleak one. He's an insomniac with Ikea furniture. Looking for a way to cure his insomnia, he takes his doctor's sarcastic advice to experience real suffering by going to Remaining Men. When the Narrator gets there, he meet Bob. Bob has bitch tits (tee-hee). He becomes friend with our Narrator. From then on it becomes an addiction. He begins sleeping again.
His attempts at happiness are shattered when Marla Singer comes into his Remaining Men's group. He knows she's a faker because he's seen her at other group therapy meetings as well. He begins getting insomnia again and wants her gone. After a confrontation, they decide to split up their meetings fairly. After all is accomplished, it seems as though Marla will no longer be part of his life. At the last minute, they exchange numbers.
Richard begins sending our Narrator on flights. The Narrator's job is the be a Recall Coordinator, but that's too complicated to explain. Watch the movie and you'll know what I'm talking about. All you need to know is that he has to travel a lot. On one of his flights, he meets Tyler Durden. Tyler is charming and so different from everybody else. He rejects the moral values of today's society. He also makes soap. After the Narrator is detained because of vibrating luggage, he returns to his condo to find that it has blown out of the floor. The theory the police offer is that a valve blew out, releasing gas while he was gone. Then the refrigerator's pilot light clicked on, which caused the whole place to explode. The Narrator first calls Marla, then realizes that he doesn't really want her help. He calls Tyler for some inexplicable reason. He and Tyler go for a beer, where Tyler convince the Narrator that all he lost is stuff. Things don't make people, people make things. Or as Tyler so eloquently put it:"The things you own end up owning you."
The Narrator begins staying at Tyler's house. It's a ramshackle building that is in ruins. Him and Tyler, however, find solace in bare-fisted brawling. It becomes so popular among men, that Tyler and him turn it into Fight Club. Fight Club is held in the basement of Lou's Bar. The Club is supposed to be secretive and men just get together to fight.
Marla is re-introduced into the story when she phones up the Narrator while attempting suicide. The Narrator doesn't care and put the phone down to let her die. When he leaves, Tyler picks up the phone in puzzlement and realizes what is going on. He saves Marla and they begin a purely animally sexual relationship. Marla is very annoyed at the Narrator's attempts to kick her out of the house after everytimes she and Tyler are finished. At this time, police suspicsion is on the Narrator because it is found that his condo was blown up by home-made explosives, which is something Tyler is very talented at making.
Fight Club expands as Tyler starts handing out assignments for the members to start wreaking havoc on their communities. It grows as the create more anarchy and violence. It eventually grows into Project Mayhem, which Tyler creates, delibrately excluding the Narrator. Project Mayhem is a mini-terrorist groups that commits social mayhem. The Narrator feels alone again and confronts Tyler which nearly gets them both killed in a car accident.
The next day Tyler is gone. In the evening, the Narrator finds out that Bob has been shot in the head during one of Project Mayhem's...projects. Deciding that enough-is-enough, the Narrator goes looking for Tyler.
During his search, he realizes the truth. He is Tyler. He is the creator of Fight Club and Project Mayhem. He is the one everyone admires. He is also the one who is fucking Marla, which explains her confusion at always being thrown out by him thereafter. He decides that Marla is not safe while he's not aware of what he truly is capable of. He convinces her to get on a bus and get out of town.
He stumbles upon Project Mayhem's plot to get rid of all the credit card debt by blowing up the credit card buildings. Wanting to make good, he gets himself arrested. He nearly gets castrated by two police officers who belong to Project Mayhem. He manages to thwart them and realizes he has to embark on his mission alone. He runs to the building where all his explosive devices are wired and tries to stop them from going off. Tyler comes back to life in the Narrators's mind. After stopping the explosives, the Narrator tries to forcefully throw himself out...well, technically it's Tyler trying to throw him out, but they're the same person. The Narrator has himself looked in a room, with a gun pointing to him, having reset the explosives. He realizes that it's actually him who has done this and not Tyler. He shoots himself in the mouth as a symbolic gesture that he's killing Tyler. Tyler's persona, shot in the back of the head, dies. Project Mayhem members come in with Marla, whom the just kidnapped. The Narrator, or Tyler at this point, because he truly is Tyler, demands that they be alone. Marla is angry at him, but this dissolves when she realizes he's been shot. All of a sudden, all the buildings around them explode.
FAVORITE SCENE
Tyler:"You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis."*weird warpy effect*
Back
