![]() The first assignment: get into a fight with a stranger, and lose. It's all to help him hit rock bottom, and when Tyler assesses that our narrator has reached a new low (or high, when it comes to pain) he douses the burn with vinegar.Īs fight club grows, Tyler starts assigning homework. He also kisses our narrator's hand and sprinkles lye on it, causing a severe chemical burn. They steal some gooey bags and Tyler renders it down to soap, while talking about how it can also be used to make explosives. Where do you get fat? The dumpsters behind the liposuction clinic, of course. When Marla finally beats it, Tyler takes our narrator to procure some fat for soap. Marla comes over often, and our narrator tries his best to ignore her and Tyler's house-shaking sex sessions. There are a few "precautions" floating in the toilet when our narrator goes to use it in the morning. He brings her home and she tells him, "You're gonna have to keep me up all night." Tyler does, but at least they take safety precautions. Our narrator doesn't care…but Tyler picks up the phone and decides to go to her apartment. (How'd she get this number?) She's taken a bunch of sleeping pills and is dying. One day the phone rings at the Paper Street house. Also, we're not allowed to talk about them, like, at all. We'd recap the rules, but even if you've never seen this movie, you know them. Tyler agrees to let our narrator stay at his house, but first he wants a favor: "I want you to hit me as hard as you can." The two fight in the parking lot of Lou's Tavern, and then go home to Tyler's dilapidated house on Paper Street.Įvery night they go the tavern and fight, and other men join them. He calls Tyler Durden and grabs a drink with him. His apartment has exploded: either arson or some really flammable IKEA furniture. When our narrator returns home, he has no home to return to. On a business trip, our narrator meets Tyler Durden, a charming soap salesman. They divide up the support groups so they never have to see each other again. ![]() She's exactly like our narrator, and he can't take it. She's a faker, a tourist, going to support groups for diseases she doesn't have. Then Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) shows up. At his testicular cancer support group, he meets a man with giant breasts named Bob and learns how to cry. Not for insomnia, but for diseases he doesn't have: brain parasites, tuberculosis, and testicular cancer. Our narrator, suffering from chronic insomnia, is attending support groups. ![]() David Fincher is too classy for a wavy flashback effect, but what follows is about two hours of flashback. How'd our narrator get into this predicament? We're about to find out. It emerges from our narrator character (we know what his nerve endings look like but not his name that's too personal) played by Edward Norton, who has a gun in his mouth, held there by Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). The opening credits to Fight Club take place inside the human body, perhaps filmed by the Magic School Bus. Let's get up close and personal with our main character, shall we?
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