Charming, beautiful, ripped and totally off-the-grid. Tyler is everything The Narrator is not… for a start, he’s Brad Pitt. However, he still has a void in his soul – until he meets Tyler Durden. The blinding terror of ‘daylight horror’ Unable to sleep at night, he fakes a variety of medical and mental health conditions so he can join support groups for sufferers of testicular cancer or sickle cell anaemia, finding some comfort and release in the physical and emotional pain of others. Yet the character – often referred to as simply the Narrator, but who likes to call himself ‘Jack’ in the film – has a growing disquiet at his place in the machine. He assesses insurance claims for a living and in turn spends the money he earns on things he thinks he needs from the Ikea catalogue. Many people just did not know which way to jump on this twisted allegory about an American wage slave, played by Edward Norton, who is a cog in the capitalist economy and does his bit to keep all the other cogs turning. When David Fincher’s movie of Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel Fight Club was released 20 years ago, it polarised the critics.
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