An Analysis Of Fight Club
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. If you wake up at a different time, at a different place, could you wake up as a different person? Everywhere I travel; tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pad of butter, the microwave cordon bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample packets of mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight; they are single-serving friends. Between take-off and landing we have our time together, that's all we get."
Fight Club initially strikes you as your run-of-the-mill "guy movie." Fighting, two leading male characters, the only female character is nothing more than an object of sexual release and a total lunatic, world domination, and there a total absence of an underlying love story. However, there are serious subliminal messages in this movie. Every time you watch it you notice something new.
One of the main oddities of this movie is that the leading character, the narrator, has no name. Even when he is asked, there is no response, merely a scene change in the movie. The significance of this is that this man could be any man. Any one of the late nineties men who are stuck in a job that doesn't exactly fulfill them, striving not for completion of their soul, but for completion of that entertainment center or collection of Gucci suits. Appearances are everything. The contents of their apartments equate their wealth.
Insomnia plays a bigger part in Fight Club than what you would first assume. It is clear that the narrator suffers from insomnia. The only cure is to frequent the local support groups, but that is an entirely different point. What isn't so obvious is that Tyler Durdin also has insomnia. He works night jobs. The narrator says that while we are sleeping, Tyler is working. This magnifies the parallels between the narrator and Tyler.
Let us go back to the part about the narrator's affinity for support groups. There...
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