Let's get it straight people: Fight Club was about one man's mid-life crisis; the way he got past feeling helpless with his work and love life. That's it; that's the summary. Now I can go on....
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER !!!!!!
I've commented on this film before but since then , like A BILLION (no offense, but) mind-numbingly *STUPID* comments have been entered about why the film's ending "didn't make sense" or "brought the movie down", or "to be anti- Corporate America is too easy"....whatever, shut up already; you've missed the whole point! About THE ENDING:
Guys, Tyler is NOT REAL. We all realized that he is a fictional character in the Narrator's head. Now, that being said, the narrator's also got a horseshoe up his ass, because he's been pretty damn lucky up until that point; being beaten up every day and starting Project Mayhem w/out getting killed or arrested. Not even getting fired! Getting eveybody on his side! For a split-personality disorder sufferer, this guy has got some positive force on his side. Could it be within himself? Where Tyler has become unrelentingly powerful and threatening to the Narrator by the film's end, could it be that there is another character opposite of what the narrator was; a strong person, willing to survive and care and live life to it's fullest? This is the narrator's new outlook on life, Marla changed him and forced him to grow up.
When he shot Tyler, he believed he was shooting himself, tbus killing his mind, thus killing Tyler. What people don't realize is that this other force, the one that began seeing that Tyler was too over-the-edge, the one that started to like Marla, TOOK OVER when he shot himself with that gun. So he shot himself in the ear/mouth instead of the head, because there was the will to live. When Tyler is present, you can't take what you see at face value, bc there are no other witnesses. When Tyler breathes out smoke b4 dying, that is the Narrator's mind thinking he has killed that demented, egotistical side of him to get past this mid-life crisis and to be able to understand women and to fall in love with one.
Another thing : the entire movie is always hinting that today, men go through mid-life crises at a younger age. The narrator just went through his, and we got to see it!
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER !!!!!!
I've commented on this film before but since then , like A BILLION (no offense, but) mind-numbingly *STUPID* comments have been entered about why the film's ending "didn't make sense" or "brought the movie down", or "to be anti- Corporate America is too easy"....whatever, shut up already; you've missed the whole point! About THE ENDING:
Guys, Tyler is NOT REAL. We all realized that he is a fictional character in the Narrator's head. Now, that being said, the narrator's also got a horseshoe up his ass, because he's been pretty damn lucky up until that point; being beaten up every day and starting Project Mayhem w/out getting killed or arrested. Not even getting fired! Getting eveybody on his side! For a split-personality disorder sufferer, this guy has got some positive force on his side. Could it be within himself? Where Tyler has become unrelentingly powerful and threatening to the Narrator by the film's end, could it be that there is another character opposite of what the narrator was; a strong person, willing to survive and care and live life to it's fullest? This is the narrator's new outlook on life, Marla changed him and forced him to grow up.
When he shot Tyler, he believed he was shooting himself, tbus killing his mind, thus killing Tyler. What people don't realize is that this other force, the one that began seeing that Tyler was too over-the-edge, the one that started to like Marla, TOOK OVER when he shot himself with that gun. So he shot himself in the ear/mouth instead of the head, because there was the will to live. When Tyler is present, you can't take what you see at face value, bc there are no other witnesses. When Tyler breathes out smoke b4 dying, that is the Narrator's mind thinking he has killed that demented, egotistical side of him to get past this mid-life crisis and to be able to understand women and to fall in love with one.
Another thing : the entire movie is always hinting that today, men go through mid-life crises at a younger age. The narrator just went through his, and we got to see it!