Fight Club
Fight Club
The Narrator (who is not named in the movie) is a chronic insomniac who is unfulfilled both by his job as an automobile recall specialist and the material wealth it affords him. As a substitute for therapy, he attends support groups for problems he doesn't really have, such as alcoholism and cancer. Another impostor, Marla Singer, begins attending the same groups. Her presence is taken by the Narrator as a constant reminder of his dishonesty, interfering with the therapeutic effect he's after. He confronts Marla, and proposes they divide group attendance, to which she grudgingly agrees.
On a flight home from a business trip, the Narrator meets Tyler Durden, a soap salesman, who tells him he is trapped by consumerism. The Narrator's apartment and all of his belongings are destroyed by an explosion, so he moves into Tyler's dilapidated house in an industrial area. The two start having consensual fistfights in the parking lot of a bar, which attracts other men and eventually leads to the formation of Fight Club, which meets in the bar's basement. Marla overdoses on pills while the Narrator ignores her phone call for help, but Tyler saves her and they begin a sexual relationship.
The Narrator quits his job and blackmails his boss for the company's assets to support Fight Club. More members join Fight Club, one of them being Robert "Bob" Paulson, a man the Narrator had befriended at a cancer support group. Tyler then recruits the men to his new organization, Project Mayhem, which engages in acts of vandalism. When the Narrator complains about being excluded, Tyler reveals that he was the one who caused the explosion at the Narrator's condo. Tyler disappears, and when Bob is killed by the police during a sabotage operation, the Narrator tries to stop Project Mayhem. He follows a paper trail to cities Tyler had visited and finds that Project Mayhem has spread throughout the country. Marla and the Project members address the Narrator as "Mr. Durden," and he realizes that he and Tyler are the same person.
The Narrator learns that Tyler plans to erase debt by destroying buildings containing credit card records. He tries to warn Marla, but she does not believe him. He goes to the police and is threatened by officers who reveal they are members of Project Mayhem; he then escapes to try to disarm the explosives in one building but is subdued by Tyler and held at gunpoint on the top floor. The Narrator realizes that it is actually himself who is holding the gun, and he fires the weapon into his own mouth, blowing a hole through his cheek. Tyler stands motionless, smoke coiling from his head, and then collapses and vanishes. Marla arrives, being brought by Project members and finds the Narrator badly wounded but alive. He tells her that she met him "at a very strange time" in his life, and they hold hands and watch as the buildings around them explode.
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