Fight Club: Ending Explained
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ScreenPrism "project mayhem still operational sir" is the last few lines of the book, from what I can remember.
The book end's with the narrator hospitalised with the his army/cult members still whispering in his ear.
There is a comic book sequel written by the original author. I highly recommend it.
What’s your guy’s opinion on LIGMA.
I'm so pleasantly surprised by this explanation as I've expected the whole "Fight Club is criticizing toxic masculinity" narrative that became canon in the even softer, more shielded society of the 21st century. I'm glad you nailed it on the head. You go girls.
The Take by ScreenPrism can you guys please analyze Rocky franchise since Creed 2 is gonna be the last movie for Stallone? Thanks.
Harris
i thought this was a movie about a boxing club before i watched it.
Same
Totally same! I definitely didn’t expect what I saw
Me too, thats why i never watched it
Same lol
same
"We buy things we don't need
with money we don't have
to impress people we don't like"
r/im14andthisisdeep
@@timothyh6670 in your point of view. I see you obviously have been brainwashed by society. You refuse to believe that your job is useless.
Yup
What does this have to do with the end of the movie fuckhead
"we write quotes that we didnt make"
"on things that are not ours"
"to impress people taking shits"
"Don't buy into consumer culture. . . . Now, I'm really excited to talk Mubi, our sponsor."
Lmaooo
Hahahahahahaha
Lmaoooo 😂
Girls got to pay bills lol
😂😂😂
No plot twist has ever got me like this one. One of my all time favorites.
Watch Shutter Island and Donnie Darko. They're kinda similar to Fight Club.
@@lilchopan8418 shutter island is classic
Right, BOOM no more banksters debt theft usery
The ending really surprised me, HAD to watch it again to really understand The whole MOVIE... VERY GOOD FILM
You should watch "Memento"
He reached for Marla's hand at the end because it took massive destruction of his own doing for him to realize everything he had wanted - and had failed to get through consumerism or anarchism - was right there beside him. Human connection.
Agreed
Woah!!! That's struck.🙌
Damn!
He reached for Marla's hand to try to verify she was not just another offshoot of his featured personality.
Wrong, its symbolic of the way our brains can only reach out for meaning despite not being fulfilled, the existential limitation of it all.
When The narrator first called Tyler and disconnects the call, he gets a call back from Tyler, but it's written on the telephone "No incoming calls Allowed" you see it?
Oh..you are the God damn observer
very neat observation
Omg... Nice one man
yes it was the first hint that he is talking with himself
This wax pointed out by a screen rant video years ago in a video talking about clues you missed in popular movies
I m curious, at the beggining of the fight club some people just saw a person beats himself and said " I m in"
Επίσης
They probably didn’t exactly think it was cool but they were definitely curious
So him punching himself really looks stupid. It reflects of what we are now, most people doing prank or whatever just to get views and likes 🤷♀️. Thats what I thought
Thats the point, it sparked curiosity in them so they wanted to check it out, and one the narrator tells them its ok they back off. And thats how it began, those two guys at the beginning spread the word.
Ctfu I wondered that too 😭😭😭😭
All of you are breaking the first two rules of fight club
1 do not talk about ***** ****
You broke it too
That comment is really getting old. It's under EVERY fight club video
@@gabrielbleuse988 And yet... people keep breaking them
The first two rules, 1. Be a dumbass, 2. be balanced at the same time
I also like how after the car crash Tyler says “We just had a near life experience” not a near death
I understand this as Tyler being close to taking over the narrators mental state.
+ tayler was completely safe and had no injuries compared to real tayler and the dues in the back
@@bigmanmccheez5342 The quote originally was from a newspaper comic calling out how people are losing grip on the real world and becoming "The Living Dead" from watching TV all day. . . I think so. Lookup "Leunig Near Life Experience" can't link it cause of UA-cam's censorship I don't think.
Noted 😊
"It's only after you've lost everything, you're free to do anything..."
If you are debt free yes you are. Most will never know this. You may not own a house and rent. Your vehicle nay not be the best but you aint working in slavery for a job you hate to make payments on something that owns you
@@1977crabb but there’s something you could never take away from prisoners. In some ways an inmate is more free than someone on the outside.
@@chris7285 that is bullshit. In jail you can't enjoy fresh air rain any food you want watch the stars.
Free to, but unable to. Freedom is worthless without the means.
I've seen fight club like 5 times and I never realized the narrator had no name
It's Jack
@@mr.mayhem6755 I WONDERED WHO JACK WAS!
@@mr.mayhem6755 who tf is Jack?
9 lpaye.. the narrator/Edward Norton.
@@mr.mayhem6755 yeah ^^
But we do not know his name
"The things you own end up owning you". That's a very true quote, and it's one of the lines that resonated with me, long after I first watched "Fight Club".
YOU BROKE THE FIRST 2 RULES
"It's only once we've lost everything that we're free to do anything"
SO TRUE!!!
Caitriona Quigley It's not an original quotation, it's borrowed from elsewhere but a bloody good film otherwise.
+Anon B Interesting, I hadn't known that before!😀 Do you know where it comes from originally?
Caitriona Quigley I'm afraid I don't know but I had heard it before Fight Club. Probably some French philosopher! Still a big fan of the film & the book.
I watched this movie at a very strange time of my life.
..
I'm not joking
Kevin Samuel who?
Same
Kevin Samuel yee yee
We’re all living the same lives that’s why
mann i felt this
"we're the middle children of history, we have no place. we have no great war and no great depression." I'm always surprised by people not getting the point of fight club even just from this one line. Tyler is complaining that they have no tragedy in their lives. He says people work all day to buy stuff they don't need. It all rings a bit hollow when you're someone who works all day and can only just manage to buy the things you do need.
DaisyBryar I think looking at it from a strictly financial standpoint is a narrow view. The buying things they don't need line is symbolic of boredom and the pointlessness of existence. As someone who is not interested in having kids, I'm of the opinion that a lot if people do start families to give their lives that meaning, or at the very least something to discuss with adult peers, especially older adults. It's a way to fit in. Since that is engrained in society, it gives the impression that it's the sole purpose of existence, since blue collar working class has relatively no voice in how society should be sculpted. There's literally no difference in living paycheck to paycheck and scrapping by, or having expendable dough to throw into an Ikea store for stupid shit. The middle men line is Tyler's viewpoint that man without notable cause to fight is a lost man. Since that is the unfortunate timeline of their respective ages, might as well fight just to get the angst out.
Just for the record, my point is not purely financial - the first part of my comment is about how Tyler is complaining about having no tragedy in his life, how he thinks he would rather live through a world war or the great depression than live in a comfortable, relatively peaceful time. That includes financial stability like I said in my example, sure, but also the lack of any any threat to his lifestyle and livelihood, or the prospect of being drafted to war, to name a couple of examples.
To build on your point about the pointlessness of existence, why does war and financial depression make existence less pointless? It can give the working man a goal, but that goal is to continue living (survive the battlefield or make enough money to keep fed and sheltered), something he can do easily in the time the story was set. If something is easy, does that make it pointless? Anyway, I would argue that because he doesn't have to worry about basic survival, or tasks put upon him by circumstance, he can create his own meaning instead of fulfilling one put upon him. It's easy to say life is meaningless, but he could find a cause to fight. Not having to worry about basic necessities doesn't make him a lost man, it makes him more capable to be his own man instead of a cog in the machine doing as he is told, the thing he is trying to fight against.
That's probably because this movie was made during the time when the majority of people still trusted government and was warning us of the massive debt we'd eventually find out about when it's damn too late to react and stabilize the economy. The government stealing nearly half of my paycheck is a luxury I simply cannot afford.
No Great War... then we had 9-11. No Great Depression... 2008 recession. Guess we now do have something to give us purpose.
If he didn't see enough tragedy then maby he didn't look enough.
Fight Club hasn't been essayed like that since grade school.
Essays are a huge waste of... getting woke.
See Stephan Molyneux-"The Truth About Fight Club"on UA-cam. Big discussion
The First Rule of Grade School is...
Now, we can't watch it cause it's bad. And this teaches me more about badass shit
@@littleflower8915 you don't actually buy into that psuedo intellectual bullshit
The breast feeling scene wasn't about her wanting to have cancer... she wasnt really asking if Tyler felt a lump. the cancer thing was just a excuse to get Tyler to her house and touch her. What she was REALLY asking was if he felt anything for HER while rubbing her boobs. But "Jack" pretends to feel nothing for her, he needs to be his alter ego tyler to be comfortable enough to act out his urges.
Thanks Tyler
chrs tyler durden m8
“I felt sorry for guys who worked out in gyms trying to look like how tommy hillfigure and Calvin Kline said they should” and yet subconsciously the ideal man to you looks like one of the most handsome men alive, Brad Pit so....
They should explore this dichotomy more...
Literally the next shot of the movie is Brad Pitt beating somebody up and then standing up shirtless with his abs glistening. It was definitely done on purpose
You miss the point. That doesn’t make that statement any less true. The point is that looking good naturally comes along if you want it for yourself and realize you’re only as good as yourself. Becoming the best version of yourself is better than trying to replicate what you see on an ad. No matter how much you workout, no matter how much leg lengthening surgery procedures you get done, etc you can never be some else. There is only one of you on Earth.
@@chris7285 What the ads says you to be... Tyler durdon is the one who literally goes around and says them how they should be. He does not want any rules but yet himself imposes rules. The movie is about how extreme order and extreme chaos are the two sides of the same coin. We all should have a little bit of tyler durdon in us but not be tyler durdon. It is about the balance between order and chaos
Finding Brad Pitt to be handsome is also idealistic
When she seems disappointed at him feeling nothing during the breast examination, I always took it to mean she was disappointed that feeling her breasts means nothing to him
I don't know how they couldn't pick that up especially as they isolate the moment in this video! Maybe they've presumed that we all understand that dimension to it??
That is what it meant! You are correct the maker of this video had no clue
ikr
@@gintokisstrawberrymilk remove to DRAIN. agape, yin
same
"What you own ends up owning you" The narrator actually owns Tyler but slowly Tyler starts owning him. I think it a kinda off warning given by Tyler (his mental projection) of what was about to happen
The narrator is Tyler, didn't you watch the movie?
@@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin In the credits, says Pitt is Durden. Edward Norton is called The Narrarator.
@@StopTheSequel Tomato tomato I guess, they're the same person after all.
You met me at a very strange time in my life...
David Sungwoo Son nugget self.production trump.pace in ABC..
Tyler is not an anarchist. He is clearly anti-capitalist, but very clearly not anarchist. His army and how he treats them makes that very clear.
Tyler isn't anti-capitalist, the credit unions, federal reserve, and the government are anti-capitalist though.
Its very hierarchical the way in which he organises the workers. Hes not even a communist mate.
He’s not a communist or fascist either. He is actually the founding fathers only a bit crazier. Think about what they did. Bring down an empire. Pretty much in the same way Tyler did. Civic disobedience turned into a revolution of sorts. The credit card company destruction is basically the Boston tea party of our time.
@@chadatl7217 the founding fathers didn't bring down an empire
He is a hunter-gatherer. The only reasonable way for humans to actually live.
The ending scene makes me wonder if Marla is also a version of Tyler's imagination.
Actually, she's not. Narrator/Tyler had fell in love with her and it was the reason to project Tyler - his better (as he probably thought) version.
moonisstoned sounds legit.
Yes his guilt and remorse
Naah
That would be epic, thanks
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
What does that mean?
@@user-ft5jp1ot2h watch the movie haha
This isn't schizophrenia. It's actually called "the shadow" study by Carl Juan. All about accepting the darkest sides of yourself to become whole. Main character rejected the 'bad' things about him that were him so Pitt was his "shadow" that tries to connect and the end is becoming whole.
Not that accurate. Carl Jung’s theory is more philosophy than it is psychology. A mix if you want. It describes the different components of one’s self: the persona (the “mask” you wear around other people); the anima/animus (the feminine/masculine side of a man/woman); the shadow (the part of you that you don’t show people and may not even be aware of yourself) and the ego (the self, though it is very debatable in philosophy wether the “I” or the ego actually exists beyond all those other facets.
What the narrator is experiencing is textbook insomnia and i would also guess on depression.
Lack of sleep makes you hallucinate. The groups he was going to helped him let his feelings out thorough crying, listening and talking. After Marla disturbed this cycle his coping mechanism fell out of balance. Mix all that with constant travelling by flight (his job probably influenced his sleeping problems as well) and an existential crisis and you get your own imaginary friend like the narrator did.
You 100% can compare this case to Carl Jung’s theory on the soul but i wouldn’t strike out a mentall illness like Schizophrenia (its symptoms *are* hallucination and dissociation after all, two very big things our protagonist is struggling with) to argue that it is the *shadow* since that’s not really a diagnosis. Nonetheless, it is a great comparison and i did think of it too!
Ah yes... Carl Juan
@@antoniaboboc7491 ttt t t t🎉
This film took me to different places and my deepest thoughts, I stayed up and watched it till 4 in the morning when I was 15 and I remember just listening to where is my mind whilst the credits rolled, just laid in my bed in my deepest thoughts and just let go
Thats just so me right now !
this is me rn
bruh same
i’m so mind-fucked rn
Dude I’m 15 and I literally just did the same thing haha I’m in love with this movie
I just wanna know how homeboy survived a gunshot to the mouth
When he put the gun to his mouth, he unintentionally angled the gun at an angle that the bullet goes through the cheek and not his head. But since he did this without knowing, he thought he would die. And when he pulled the trigger, he accepted that he will die. Which killed Tyler. But he didn't realise that he got shot in the cheek and not head. It killed Tyler because he felt in control for once. Since he figured the game out, and took full control when he attempted to kill himself, putting him in the driver seat instead of behind Tyler.
@@StopTheSequel thank you so much man.... I was looking for an answer for that. I feel satisfied now 😄
@@Lusikhdnslalf No Problemo. Its a hard to catch thing.
@@StopTheSequel wow thank u
You’d be surprised but I remember watching a video of surgeons operating on a man who attempted suicide but failed. His face.....his head looked like a strange cluster of blood and guts. They had a skinny tube going down his throat somehow. Or at least that’s what I think I was looking at. I’m not sure how they were able to identify anything. Apparently he survived the operation too. Although he probably doesn’t look very good now. It’s amazing what well trained surgeons can do. I have a lot of respect for surgeons.
"You met me at a very strange time of my life"...this scene still gives me goosebumps.
i cried a lil because before watching the movie someone spoiled it for me so i only watched it for the whole experience but sadly i already knew the twist and i swear to god I AM SO MAD RN it would be such an euphoric feeling to be shocked by the twist and i’ll never have that.
Sameee :'(
I’m sorry, it was such a great feeling that overwhelming to my emotions
finding out who tyler was blew my mind, im not surprised i was dumb enough to not realise it
This film impacted 14 year old me like no other movie ever has and possibly ever will. It spoke to me at my core because I had always felt the way Tyler did but couldn't articulate it yet. What he did is not like brainwashing, it is literally brainwashing by definition. Also, comfort doesn't make you dead. It is what keeps you alive. You could call having heat, by bear skinned coat or electric, in the winter in Alaska comfort but if you can't survive without it, like food, then it is a necessity.
Casting 101. If you don't have Brad Pitt, you don't have fight club.
He and Edward Norton were A+. Also thanks Chuck Palahniuk.
@@Ian-qb6im nah
The philosophy about consumerism is real.
I end up spending hours on the internet in order to use my home WiFi's data that usually gets wasted. In order to get the value for my money I spend extra hours surfing the net.
It is literally controlling my actions.
After watching I realized my possessions own me, that's really been bothering me
and I feel like I don't have a goal in my life so i return again to getting addicted to internet and consuming If I know what I really love I won't need these shitty stuff
@@mohamedelzanaty3163 May i suggest you search "ikigai" online, find the chart and ask yourself the questions it poses. It's a Japanese concept about the ideal work for you. I personally found out i'd love to be a documentary maker, so I'm going to study film at university, which is why I watched fight club and how I saw this comment. Seriously...
That’s good , should bother you. It bothered me and certainly is true
The Main message in Movie is :"THE ABILITY TO LET THAT WHICH DOESN'T MATTER,TRULY SLIDE"
In the shopkeeper scene.
But also to NOT let that witch truly matters slide, like banksters debt slavery.
Gosh that ending gives me chills. A feeling in the pit of my stomach that idk if it’s good or bad or neither but just feeling and hey feeling is living right
How many others can start living with the banksters debt slavery erased?
I'm pissed it took me till I was 20 to watch this movie, I looked at people with there life together like they were crazy, I couldn't understand why people can go about blindly with life and not want to just not be here, this movie truly changed the way I think about people, we constantly are judging one another based of money and subjective things we might not be able to change yet the entire time we are of the same essence, this movie is some ways cleared my head of some things but I think I need to do more inner motion in order to fully see through what the movie ment, I may never find it, I hope I do
dude I feel the same, nice to hear someone else having the same mindset
I watched a 15 minute video where you guys summarized the plot for me basically. Where is your interpretation of the ending?
Good observation. Its really a very good movie and its still just as confusing as the 1st time I watched and yes a female has watched Fight Club a few times trying to understand its many 'points' ... The summary does however give a pretty good idea what the entire movie could mean - however - the almost tangible mental illnesses (of the narrator and his lady) almost drown any other aspects ... Try as we might to see the movie the way its summarized here, the obvious diagnosable challenges of these two is sadly far more prominent. Is that just me who sees this? I wouldn't go far enuf to say it ruined the movie because its just too good, well directed a movie overall ...but there is this super thin lines movies cross when they beckon 'Go HERE with us instead of what it blaringly presents to you. One can clearly state "Yeah the narrator lost me when he ___________ or Marla lost me when she _____________________." Still...must give kudos to all involved, actors directors, wardrobe, makeup, special effects etc.
9/11
He could not handle the debt slavery all around him so created Tiler to end it
Considering that Fight Club is a movie that is VERY open to interpretation, I agree with what this video says.
Fight Club is the most confusing movie I’ve ever seen.
that ending mindfucked me
But it’s fucking awesome
Then you haven't watched a lot of movies of this genre
Kunal Arora does fight club even have a genre?
@@jeanmichellelaurent i didn't mean exactly the word genre. I meant "the movies which plays with your mind" or "the movies which you call confusing"
I loved fight club. One of a great movie for sure but there are many other that i would rank higher in terms of "confusing movie"
Gosh.. i wish i had a cool looking subconscious like Tyler Durden
There's all sorts of everything to pull apart in this comment! Get some therapy!
I think yours is the asian from hang over
@@cerebralwolf666 not funny.
U really want an alter ego that is impossible to ignore?
lmfao no you dont
This movie is a gift that keeps on giving. The philosophy boils down to being close to death is the most alive you’ll ever be that is the greatest movie sentiment ever
One of the cleverest movies I’ve ever seen! As an emo teenager just a few years before the movie came out, I completely identified with the narrator, and I loved this movie for going some way towards explaining the fascination with self-harming, which I perceive to be a parallel to the fight clubs depicted in the movie - the movie also taught me that it wasn’t just me who had these thoughts and feelings, it was more guys than I imagined, but I would never have known that because it’s not something you would talk about (“The first rule of fight club is….you DO NOT TALK about fight club!”) If you understand the movie and it’s message, you’ll know why it’s become a cult classic - it truly is next level storytelling….
How'd you identify with the narrator when he was 30 something working a mindless job watching his life tick away
I just finished watching this movie like 2 mins ago and now I don’t I don’t even know
bro I didn't even realize he was unnamed, truly a masterpiece
Name of song in the beginning?
it took me more than 24 years to finally watch this movie and im so so fking glad that during those 24 years, the movie was never spoiled to me with that ending twist..for 24 years i thought its a movie about fighting but im i think that made it more better coz it came out nowhere near as i expected
Saw for the first time in March 2019. Hats off to the makers of this movie.
Mee to I watched it today
@@gowtham3903 me today
Watched today morning. I can't stop thinking about it
I watched this at a very strange time in my life.
I always found it funny how so many men when this came out came away with the whole "men need to be more manly and learn to be tougher and experience battle and blah, blah, blah" when the movie CLEARLY shows the folly of trying to live life that way. The "men" in the movie tried cause mayhem and chaos and do whatever they wanted, consequence-free. The exact OPPOSITE of how real men behave (being responsible and accountable is pretty much Being A Man 101). It finally caught up to the narrator when what he'd wrought was actually prepared to cut his balls off (the ultimate emasculation). He finally woke up to realize that destroying property and people doesn't make one "manly", it makes you a man-child.
But again, so many men completely miss that message to this very day and simply think if we fought more, we'd all be "better men". It's...odd. I always looked at the men in Fight Club as whiny little boys that lack purpose because they lack maturity, focus and self-respect. So instead of defining themselves through material things and status, they did it through brutality, destruction and endless venting of aggression. But they always dodged the consequences.
Aaron Starks nice thinking.
Aaron Starks --Wonderfully expressed.💐
Thank you.
The simple question is who is really free. Tyler? Or the Narrator?
I guess there are more messages for that movie taken in that intended sequence of shots. Consumerism! Yes, you mentioned it. Testicular cancer! You, didn't. Middle men of history! It's those men who you meant to call as responsible,productive people. The same fellows who got fed up with their meaningless monotonous 9 to 5 job. So, again! Did Tyler won? The credit card companies did blew up. Did the narrator won? Maybe. As I see it, they weren't men who were simply trying to define their masculinity but rather they were men who were trying to define themselves while battling to find their own purpose in the society.
@Genji Gadgeto true
"Our great war is spiritual. Our great depression is our lives."
Where is my mind?
Jon Haymaker I love that song
Where is my mynd? Wheeeeeeeereeee...
Awesome video! Been subscribed to this channel for the eight months and I can't say that I regret it. Keep up the good work.
One of the best movies my eyes have ever perceived
The end of banksters debt slavery is a dream of mine
I have been waiting for this with my feet in the air and head on the ground. Thank you!!!
You make the best analysis videos on youtube, keep em coming
Fight club is basically modern-day Jekyll and Hyde.
Video starts at 11:10
Everything beforehand you already knew
I don't agree with you.
THANK YOU
"It's only when we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."-Tyler Durden
I am amazed by how thoroughly this video misses the point of the film's ending. Watch the opening of the movie again. Pay attention to the timer on the bomb in the van, after the POV goes through the bullethole in the window. The timer is counting down, which means that Tyler restarted the timer after he knocked out the Narrator. Which means that "Where is My Mind" playing is a clue that this is another hallucination. When the Mechanic left the stage, he commented "I can't believe he's standing there". Not because of the bullethole in the face of the man who he'd previously watched take that beating from Lou.
But because the Mechanic knows that Tyler knows that this building is going to blow too. Thus not being able to believe he's just standing there while everyone else evacuates to a safe distance.
Furthermore, you've completely missed the reason why Tyler decided that Fight Club was insufficient, and launched Project Mayhem.
The line ""and suddenly, I realize that all of this: the gun, the bombs, the revolution... has got something to do with a girl named Marla Singer" was only half of the puzzle.
The other half being "if only I had wasted a couple of minutes and gone to watch Marla Singer die, none of this would have happened".
If only he had gone to watch Marla die, Tyler wouldn't have gone there in his place. And then none of this, the gun, the bombs, or the revolution, would have happened.
Tyler created Project Mayhem because he started getting attached to Marla, and felt a primeval need to lash out against his own nesting instinct.
Exactly like when he blew up the Narrator's apartment.
Sense making?
You are genius 'bebe
Soooo Marla and the narrator dies?
@@xnsesss7619 Correct. The bomb in the basement is still counting down. The bomb still blows. The building they're in falls. And Jack's hallucinations obscure it.
@@ohgoditshimrun1346 hooooolyyyy thx maaan
I'm also enthusiastic about this movie so I'll tell my version of theory. I'm sure the bomb in the van was not detonated at the end of the film. Here is the reason why: The timer was 2:45 at the point of Tyler says "Ground Zero"...Probably there is some error but it's just a couple of seconds. The conversation between Tyler and Narrator might not be real time (because it happens on Narrator's head) so I'm not *really* sure but bomb supposed to be detonated at the point of Marla appears on the floor. Second reason is the placement of the bomb. In this opening VFX sequence, the bomb on the building other side of the road is tied to the pillar. I think "bomb in the van" is inspired by "The Oklahoma City bombing" but if you want to collapse the building for sure, you really need to set the bomb on the pillar (it's also mentioned in original novel). Why Tyler doesn't do that the building where he is on? Third reason is the building itself. The building in the last scene looks "under construction". The purpose of project Mayhem is erasing a whole credit record so there is no reason to blow up the building they're in. Fourth reason is the ending of original novel. In original novel, bomb was not detonated at all. The last scene of this movie is in fact ambiguous so there is no answer for this question but I really want to believe those two were survive their most strange time in their life. (>
The irony of having a sponsor advertisement before a video explaining the ending of fight club feels very appropriate.
I wondered if the house Tyler and the Narrator live in is also a metaphorical for the Narrator’s mental state. When we see either of them in the basement that persona is in the back of the mind, while the other has the run of the house indicating they are in control of the body. Also the scene where Tyler asks the Narrator if he wants to switch when having sex with Marla makes so much sense now.
I still don't get the meaning behind the narrator being all jealous when Tyler pays attention to Leto's character
He is jealous that he will never be that beautiful and how society gives preference to the attractive.
OH I get how someone can both admire and envy people they think are "better"
He’s gay
toward himself? smh
Chyn yes?? That’s a huge theme
I would love to see a video on The Double, it's sort of similar, but it isn't anywhere near as well-known! It's one of my all-time favorites. But I can appreciate how you're trying to grow your channel and tend to focus on popular TV shows and movies
The beauty of fight club is how much and how differently it can be read by people.
Marla's breast examination wasn't about feeling for a lump.
Fight club end scene song
I literally JUST finished this movie. Best experience of my life.
How did the narrator survive the gunshot in the head but not Tyler?
The best review/inside Story explained of fight club in my opinion...Keep up the good work
Great analysis! This was one of my favorite movies for a very long time, and this shed some new light on it for me.
A crazy movie about a crazy guy inspiring others to do crazy things...
And we're crazy enough to watch it till the end...
Or crazy enough to imitate them
That was an incredibly thorough and intensely and analytically detailed overview. It’s likely 50% of the information is true, 25% part and 25% not. Which is pretty good, analyzing media always ends up with some overassesment. I think most of the video is spot on, maybe speculating at a point, but mostly right.
Wow! I just finished watching Fight Club last night and thought about you guys doing a Fight Club video! What are the odds?!
Love every video you guys put up and keep up the good work!
Just seeing the film for the first time in 2024 and wow, it seems like it really has stood the test of time. Incredible movie!
the meaning of fight club is a personal opinion
its like sayin "afterlife explained"
Could you do Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind?
Very well written critique. Love it when ones "faculties" is referred to as "agency"...
Thank you so much for finally doing this!!
Two memorable quotes: "You're going to go out and start a fight with a total stranger" and "You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
4:02 "the character we've been seduced by is the mental projection of a psychologically disturbed person" - i think you missed the point of Tyler Durden
Edward Norton's character is a literal domestic terrorist. Would you consider The Unibomber a mentally well man just because of his intelligence? What about Gacy because he charismatic?
He new he needed to fracture his mind to end debt slavery
Your video was very eye opening and life changing!!! THANK YOU
"In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway."
As "terrifying" as Tyler's world seems it's far better than the one we've got in my opinion.
No bullshit job to pay for exorbitant housing expenses or artificial foods from grocery stores or brand-name clothes that conform to your workplace's dress code.
No obsessions with things that have no real impact on our lives like what's the latest celebrity gossip or who's been traded to what sports team or when will the latest piece of uninspired music be released.
No social hierarchy that makes you feel small and insignificant if you're not perpetually slaving away to climb it.
No corporate ladder to ascend so you can repeat the cycle of soulless money creation and recompense yourself for all the bullshit tedious work that you've been put through.
No stupidly wasting your life chasing girls and going on alcoholic filled benders that you won't even remember.
Just you and your agency free to live a life of self reliance in a small tribe of close companions.
Humans weren't meant to live in cities and sit at fucking desks all day typing numbers into Excel spreadsheets.
We were meant to breath fresh air. To work with our hands in the outdoors.
You can't just erase a million years of evolution in a couple of centuries.
We're mobile creatures. We don't belong in fucking cubicles.
Your name is ironic
Humanity's greatest endeavor, the creation of profit! It's also the most unrecognized, we are just smart enough to have to pay to live hear
Has there ever been a more perfect use of a song during any movie scene
Exceptional work!
It's presenting the real meaning of one of the greatest movies
I've watched a ton of videos about Fight Club and I didn't think there was more to say, but you girls found something else: 'Fight Club' is the GenX punk version of 'Shadowlands'. Sometimes taking the chance to love somebody is one heck of a story... Thanx, great vid as always, and I'm not afraid to say: LoveU!!!!
I discovered fight club at a very strange time in my life
The narrator’s name is actually Jack if you look at the script for the movie.
Best explanation in all of youtube, most seem to miss these points
Just finished this movie. Man I’m in love with it. The first half, I almost quit the movie but by the end I was mesmerized.
Same! I was like, tf am I watching? But from the 3/4th part, it got me submerged
who's crazy about this movie? I watched so many times, I did find clues about his imagination but the ending still confuses me.
Freeing all people from banksters debt slavery is not confusing, now they can all start to live
The first line in the movie is 🎥 🍿 is “this is it”, “ Ground Zero”!
Much needed Fight club break down
Kudos ❣️
Thank you for the clear review! Just wow!!
It reminds me what is most important. My PURPOSE.
thanks i hoped for a vid like this
Amazing video essay!
*guy is beating the crap out of himself outside*
Random people: “you son of a bitch I’m in”
This has to be one of the best analysis of what has to be one of the best films ever made. Thank you for posting this and job well done!!!
Oh and liked and subbed immediately!!!
man! I just watch the whole movie and I just realized that the main character doesn't have its real name mentioned
Excellent as always!
i really like the explanation you gave, i understand the movie in a whole new way now.
I just realized if you switch the words around in Marla, you get Alarm. It’s as if Marla is the wake up call of reality, and it’s what snaps him out of his own delusions.
Marla does have a lot of words in it.
Alram?
@@robertimmanuel577 ikr, this has got to be the dumbest fucking comment I’ve ever seen
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Alarm. It’s not backwards it an anagram
@@GigaChadh976 oh ok