The movie begins with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) holding a gun in Jack’s (Edward Norton) mouth, Jack says, in a voice over, “With a gun between your teeth you only speak in vowels.” Then he lets us know that Tyler has rigged half the downtown buildings to explode in less than a half an hour. After that Jack says, “Wait; Let me step back for a minute.” while the movie goes into a flash back. Fight Club does not come out of Jack’s flash back until the end of the film, also most all of the flash back is voice over narrated by Edward Norton in the character of Jack. By the end of this film you have forgotten you were witnessing Jack’s flashback, which I think is one of the best features of this movie.

Jack is an insomniac and sleeps very few hours a night, Jack explains, “That when you are an insomniac you are never really asleep and never really awake.” He tries everything he goes to doctors and therapists, none of them helped. Finally one doctor did help. He said if you think you’ve got a problem, go see the guys w

The movie opens and Tyler has a gun in Jack’s mouth; after taking it out Tyler walks over to the window, while the voice over of Jack is explaining why they were in that building the camera shows what he is saying. When Jack says “We have front row seats to this theater of mass destruction.” (Project Mayhem), the camera goes from Jack’s mildly lit face to a crane shot from outside the window of the floor where they are. When Jack starts to explain that a dozen buildings in this area are about to explode, and while the shot shows Tyler leaning up against the window, the camera does a sharp drop, like it was tied to the cable from the crane and the operator just let the camera drop straight down, along side of the building.

After a while Jack sees Bob again and The Fight Club is growing into a gang and expanding into other cities. Fight Club is now run out of their house, the members eat and sleep there. Tyler still has missions for the members and Bob ends up being killed during one of them. This is when Jack realizes that this is going to far, but Tyler already has been setting up a plan to rid the people of the U.S. of their personal debt; he plans to blow up all the bank and credit buildings in the city.

After getting off the plane and arriving at his apartment Jack sees that it has been blown up. Just his no other apartment was harmed and Jack had nowhere else to turn but Tyler. He meets Tyler at a bar and that where the audience understands that Jack and Tyler are almost complete opposites. Tyler likes things chaotic and Jack likes things nice and neat.

Tyler goes on a cross-country trip to tell all the other chapters of fight club to do the same in their city, Jack follows Tyler, always a step behind, but the people that he meets on the trip are all acting weird to him. But no matter, he presses on.

The over all photography in this sequence and in this film is outstanding. The scene and the picture are dimly lit but not dark, it has many innovative scenes, not just this one. The chemistry between Edward Norton and Brad Pitt is worth taking the time to see.

Jack is a recall expert; he travels around checking out a car manufacturer’s accidents that have casualties. He is the person who determines if the company should make a recall on the problem or not. During one of these trips he meets Tyler Durden for the first time, on a plane. They talk for a little while and Tyler gives Jack one of his cards and Tyler leaves.

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