Many fans seem to miss the real point of this movie

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 2001)

Two points. Firstly, it's slightly worrying how many people like or at least identify with this movie. There seem to be a disturbing number of Narrator/Tylers out there. Many of these however miss the point of the Third Act. Like many movements which appear to liberate the (male) persona and offer fulfilment to those who dare, Fight Club ultimately becomes a menace - an army of automatons that not even their leader can control. Tyler thus represents not just the power of the unleashed male psyche but the dark side of that power, the blind obedience that leads to a nightmare world of terrorism, Nazism, the Klan, Oklahoma etc. The movie is, in the end, an indictment, not an endorsement of the macho ethos. Secondly, the story contains one major plot problem. "Tyler" has knowledge and skills (making soap, nitroglycerine) that the Narrator doesn't. In order for him to develop these skills without the Narrator's knowledge, he needed substantial lengths of time when the Narrator was asleep. The Narrator therefore could not be insomniac; he should have been a narcoleptic, falling asleep unaccountably - or being unable to account for long periods of time - when "Tyler" was developing.