I watched it again on video and started to wonder, are the men in the club part of his imagination too or are they real? Also, did he really work at the car company, the movie theater, and make soap at night? What about the other jobs as a cook, etc? Were they real or imagined? When the hell did he sleep?
Was his girlfriend real?
Maybe I should have paid closer attention, eh?
He had multiple personalities and he was the same man…both the narrator (Edward Norton) and Tyler Durdan. The other men in the club were real! Tyler had made up the rules “Don’t talk about fight club, etc…” because he didn’t want the other personality to know that they were actually the same person. The other men in the club saw just one man which was the narrator they called Tyler. His girlfriend, Marla Singer was real, but she only slept with Tyler. She just saw him as one man and couldn’t understand why he liked her one minute and disliked her the next. (Tyler liked her and the narrator didn’t) This character was an insomniac… Tyler took over the body at night and made soap while the narrator worked during the day…
Does any of that make sense…???
He had multiple personalities and he was the same man…both the narrator (Edward Norton) and Tyler Durdan. The other men in the club were real! Tyler had made up the rules “Don’t talk about fight club, etc…” because he didn’t want the other personality to know that they were actually the same person. The other men in the club saw just one man which was the narrator they called Tyler. His girlfriend, Marla Singer was real, but she only slept with Tyler. She just saw him as one man and couldn’t understand why he liked her one minute and disliked her the next. (Tyler liked her and the narrator didn’t) This character was an insomniac… Tyler took over the body at night and made soap while the narrator worked during the day…
Does any of that make sense…???
He had multiple personalities and he was the same man…both the narrator (Edward Norton) and Tyler Durdan. The other men in the club were real! Tyler had made up the rules “Don’t talk about fight club, etc…” because he didn’t want the other personality to know that they were actually the same person. The other men in the club saw just one man which was the narrator they called Tyler. His girlfriend, Marla Singer was real, but she only slept with Tyler. She just saw him as one man and couldn’t understand why he liked her one minute and disliked her the next. (Tyler liked her and the narrator didn’t) This character was an insomniac… Tyler took over the body at night and made soap while the narrator worked during the day…
Does any of that make sense…???
He had multiple personalities and he was the same man…both the narrator (Edward Norton) and Tyler Durdan. The other men in the club were real! Tyler had made up the rules “Don’t talk about fight club, etc…” because he didn’t want the other personality to know that they were actually the same person. The other men in the club saw just one man which was the narrator they called Tyler. His girlfriend, Marla Singer was real, but she only slept with Tyler. She just saw him as one man and couldn’t understand why he liked her one minute and disliked her the next. (Tyler liked her and the narrator didn’t) This character was an insomniac… Tyler took over the body at night and made soap while the narrator worked during the day…
Does any of that make sense…???
He had multiple personalities and he was the same man…both the narrator (Edward Norton) and Tyler Durdan. The other men in the club were real! Tyler had made up the rules “Don’t talk about fight club, etc…” because he didn’t want the other personality to know that they were actually the same person. The other men in the club saw just one man which was the narrator they called Tyler. His girlfriend, Marla Singer was real, but she only slept with Tyler. She just saw him as one man and couldn’t understand why he liked her one minute and disliked her the next. (Tyler liked her and the narrator didn’t) This character was an insomniac… Tyler took over the body at night and made soap while the narrator worked during the day…
Does any of that make sense…???
Multiple posts in this particular extra ironic, no? 
Small bitch: A spoiler warning either in the title, or at the beginning of the OP would have been a good thing for those who haven’t seen the movie yet.
oops
lol…i’m so embarassed. This dang computer is driving me crazy… DISREGARD THE LAST 4 posts from me…
Just nitpicking, he wasn’t a multiple personality, he was schizophrenic. Seeing things that weren’t there, and such.
Just to expand on what jjjfishe said, “Jack” (it’s the closest thing we get to a name) becomes Tyler when Jack is asleep. Any interaction between Jack and Tyler was not real, which is why the two guys in the car were so freaked out when Jack and Tyler are fighting, and Tyler grabs the wheel.
His name is Robert Paulsen. His name is Robert Paulsen.
Damn, I loved that movie. Suddenly, all my male friends made sense. And, at the same time, I realised why I’m not dating any of them.
I was aware that the main character is schizophrenic and illusional, although I had a hard time with the way this character was portrayed considering that most of my clients are schizophrenic.
What I didn’t understand is how he could physically work at the car company during the day, the movie theater in the evening, make soap at night, sleep with his girlfriend, and run the fight club.
That is the best movie I have seen in quite awhile. I do have one question that maybe someone could answer for me. When narrator gets the phone call from the police to say his apartment probably had been intentionally blown up, Tyler was upstairs getting busy with Marla.
How could he talk the policeman and have his way with Marla at the same time?
Diane, if you liked this movie, you would LOVE Primal Fear. Edward Norton is an amazing actor.
I might be wrong here but wouldn’t he have to be a multiple personality and schizo? he not only heard Tyler talking to him, but became Tyler.
Just as an aside, and keeping the first rule of Fight Club in mind, has anyone heard of Fight Clubs happening? I know of a couple on college campuses in New England and Montana. One ended after a campus police became suspicious of reports from the campus health center.
There is a fight club in a place you would least expect one - Provo Utah! It is made up mostly of BYU students and has been in the news quite a bit lately.
I’ll see if I can find a link.
billy: Here is the critera for diagnosis of schizophrenia. Multpile Personality Disorder is seen by most reputable psychologists/psychiatrists as highly suspect, and most likely non-exsistant. (if you really want to know more about it, tell me, I’ll get you more info.)
Diane, my dad (mental health counciler with the VA) had the same reaction to the movie, he liked it, but the characterization of the violent schizophrenic annoyed him. He used the statistic that only 1% of schizophrenics are violent; I don’t know how realistic that is, but the stereotype IS annoying.
I heard about a flight club somewhere in the midwest made up of high school MENSA members. They got arrested. My (male) friend was enraged, “They belong to MENSA! They GET it!” yikes.
I found a link for the Provo Fight Club:
http://www.sltrib.com/2000/may/05182000/utah/50111.htm
SwimmingRiddles, I have to agree with your dad. Some of my clients are schizophrenic (a large portion of them homeless).
Although some clients are extremely violent, those suffering schizophrenia are usually harmful to themselves only, mostly from neglect.
It was a great movie, but yeah, the inaccurate stereotyping bugged me.
I loved Fight Club, in fact it was one of my favorite movies of 1999, and I recommend to anyone who has seen it that you also read the Chuck Palahniuk novel on which it is based. It is a terrific read, really clarifies some of the things in the book, and has a slightly better ending.
Diane:
That’s why he thought he had insomnia. Mentally, he was asleep, and Tyler was hard at work. Physically, his body was being run ragged, 24/7. The sleep deprivation probably didn’t help his already-unsteady sanity much.
Damn, I didn’t think about the insomnia. It makes sense.
I really need to sit down and watch this movie again, this time paying closer attention.
Thanks Phil, I will check Amazon for this book. If it is anywhere near as good as the movie, I’ve got to have it.
[total thread hyjack] I rented Three Kings last weekend, Diane, if you haven’t seen it yet, I think you might like it. Same frenetic filmic style, same post-modern tone. And nary a schizophrenic in sight. 
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I do have a couple of free rentals on my Blockbuster Rewards card.