Summing up the film is not an easy task, as so much of it is vital to the whole idea, so only the gist of the Narrators plight follows. Norton plays a consumer-centered insomniac who is most likely unsatisfied with the humdrum direction his life has taken. Early on he meets Tyler, “meet” here is used in the loosest sense of the word since we know

that Tyler is simply an extension of the Narrator’s mind, who seems to be the binary opposite of the Narrator. Through a nearly insane series of mayhem-causing events Tyler opens the Narrator’s eyes to all the things that have him trapped, and by this, sets him free. The ultimate eye opening occurs at the end of the film only after the Narrator seems to have fallen and hit rock bottom, an idea that is foreshadowed earlier by Tyler “It’s only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything…”

nsumer based mindset while the other owns nothing and is free from the constraints of materialism. This conversation is one of the handful of acting moments used to show they’re oppositeness. They sit across opposite sides of the table, Tyler smokes the Narrator doesn’t, the Narrator is dressed like an uptight businessman and Tyler like a free wanderer, one’s hair is up and the other’s matted down… Even the motivation for p

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