The Bizarre Ending Of Fight Club Explained
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I kinda thought that the film was an allegory and satire of the destructive forces of nihilism, toxic masculinity, and giving in to indoctrination.
I Feel there was also an elemental theme of how we psychologically project ourselves on ourselves, and then onto the world around us.
Tyler Durden initially seemed cool AF but it became apparent throughout the film to me that he was almost a kind of false flag bogeyman all along, that the narrator was just using Tyler to avoid personal responsibility while acting out his twisted masculine power fantasies.
Towards the end the narrator realized all the chaos and destruction he was responsible for and panicked. Then at the very end he realized the sum total of his insecurities, had an awakening of sorts and then perhaps ironically shot himself. Perhaps also he realizes that some good might actually come from the capitalist system being destroyed.
If the film even has a main moral to the story It's perhaps a self help message that if you aren't right in yourself, then what you project upon the world will always in some way be a reflection of that, so you better get your shit together.
Ultimately It's a sort of testosterone fuelled coming of age story of a lost manchild who feels deeply repressed by the system.
Date: 2020-07-14
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chinmay
Fight Club's ending to me, is a bit different. I guess the final scene is either a. Hallucination of narrator or B. A metaphor for his enlightenment. For the former, the narrator's mind have conquered Tyler. He's killing himself to make his transfiguration concrete and perceivable. For the latter, narrator overcame Tyler, but again, he needed a believable way to get rid of his imaginary friend. Thus, the narrator shoots himself. The gun kills Tyler and also, the narrator's chains. To cement point B, Tyler is dressed as a beast, a junkie, or simply, like a virus. A virus that is in his final moments before it's vanished of the body. Plus, the pixies song have a music video about a teen with substance addiction getting rid off his adversary. Just like the narrator nullifying his adversary.
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Fight Club's ending to me, is a bit different. I guess the final scene is either a. Hallucination of narrator or B. A metaphor for his enlightenment. For the former, the narrator's mind have conquered Tyler. He's killing himself to make his transfiguration concrete and perceivable. For the latter, narrator overcame Tyler, but again, he needed a believable way to get rid of his imaginary friend. Thus, the narrator shoots himself. The gun kills Tyler and also, the narrator's chains. To cement point B, Tyler is dressed as a beast, a junkie, or simply, like a virus. A virus that is in his final moments before it's vanished of the body. Plus, the pixies song have a music video about a teen with substance addiction getting rid off his adversary. Just like the narrator nullifying his adversary.
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Mad
I think you miss the point completely so down voted. We are not faceless consumers, we are faceless philosophers. We may not be buying into consumerism but we are buying into the next ideology that clearly states what it wants to be.
We are not our jobs. We are not how much money we have in the bank. We are not our khakis. But we are not the all seeing all dancing crap of the world either.
We can be what we want to become, what we idealise (if we are being honest with ourselves. if we want to be a father figure we will move toward that.
And most importantly if we have the will power we don't have to bend to anyone, even ourselves.
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I think you miss the point completely so down voted. We are not faceless consumers, we are faceless philosophers. We may not be buying into consumerism but we are buying into the next ideology that clearly states what it wants to be.
We are not our jobs. We are not how much money we have in the bank. We are not our khakis. But we are not the all seeing all dancing crap of the world either.
We can be what we want to become, what we idealise (if we are being honest with ourselves. if we want to be a father figure we will move toward that.
And most importantly if we have the will power we don't have to bend to anyone, even ourselves.
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bLaCjAcK
This isn't anything we all didn't know, because any true fight club fan has enjoyed finding out all these things almost or as much as the movie, but it was still done really well. I challenge anyone to be as concise and thorough hitting every point and message of this 2 and a half hour classic in under 4 and a half minutes. This was so well done. Sure, it's an ending explained for people who didn't get it or didn't research it enough or watch enough as did true fight club fans, however I think the best part about this was the delivery. Well said my friend.
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This isn't anything we all didn't know, because any true fight club fan has enjoyed finding out all these things almost or as much as the movie, but it was still done really well. I challenge anyone to be as concise and thorough hitting every point and message of this 2 and a half hour classic in under 4 and a half minutes. This was so well done. Sure, it's an ending explained for people who didn't get it or didn't research it enough or watch enough as did true fight club fans, however I think the best part about this was the delivery. Well said my friend.
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upgrader99
I took the sister of a friend to see this movie on opening night. I have a quick eye, and caught all the 1 frame stills of Durden in his Eddie Murphy'ish Delirious jumpsuit. And every time, I asked her if she saw that. By the end of the movie, she thought I was nutty, and wouldn't let me kiss her. 10 years later, and I was naked in a hot tub. Moral of the story? Enjoy life for all the little things. Rule 32
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I took the sister of a friend to see this movie on opening night. I have a quick eye, and caught all the 1 frame stills of Durden in his Eddie Murphy'ish Delirious jumpsuit. And every time, I asked her if she saw that. By the end of the movie, she thought I was nutty, and wouldn't let me kiss her. 10 years later, and I was naked in a hot tub. Moral of the story? Enjoy life for all the little things. Rule 32
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Ruukudesu_
The phrase You do not talk about fight club is much like monthy pythons sketch about the stoning for saying Jehovah.
Dont talk about fight club, Hey dont talk about dont talking about fight club, Hey dont talk about dont talking about dont talking about fight club. He talked about fight club first. Ya but now you too talk about fight club. Stop saying fight club you are breaking the rules!
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The phrase You do not talk about fight club is much like monthy pythons sketch about the stoning for saying Jehovah.
Dont talk about fight club, Hey dont talk about dont talking about fight club, Hey dont talk about dont talking about dont talking about fight club. He talked about fight club first. Ya but now you too talk about fight club. Stop saying fight club you are breaking the rules!
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HarleyFirestorm
Someone needed a video to explain the ending of the film, its not the ending but the messages in the film, which was a reflection of the consumer generation of the 90's which was a legacy of the greedy 80's, but most of it was chucked out the window when when the two planes hit the towers and the 2008 crash happened, as my generation had its great depression and its great war.
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Someone needed a video to explain the ending of the film, its not the ending but the messages in the film, which was a reflection of the consumer generation of the 90's which was a legacy of the greedy 80's, but most of it was chucked out the window when when the two planes hit the towers and the 2008 crash happened, as my generation had its great depression and its great war.
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monkeyboy4746
This movie is about insanity, we are seeing reality through the delusions of Tyler Durden's mind. I think most of the movie takes place in a mental hospital(the old building, Marla is there because she works there as a psychologist. I think he actually shoots himself and is in an emergency room in the last scene, Dr. Marla comes in to check on him. He is completely insane.
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This movie is about insanity, we are seeing reality through the delusions of Tyler Durden's mind. I think most of the movie takes place in a mental hospital(the old building, Marla is there because she works there as a psychologist. I think he actually shoots himself and is in an emergency room in the last scene, Dr. Marla comes in to check on him. He is completely insane.
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Jeremiah
it still the biggest twist in movie history well one of the biggest twist lol cause i remember first seeing it and finding out that was him all alone and cutting off the tv and saying this guy crazy asf i think this movie suppose to have a deeper meaning like that v for vendetta movie but kinda failed
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it still the biggest twist in movie history well one of the biggest twist lol cause i remember first seeing it and finding out that was him all alone and cutting off the tv and saying this guy crazy asf i think this movie suppose to have a deeper meaning like that v for vendetta movie but kinda failed
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mickeymouse2able
Brad Pitt in Fight Club is the ideal man (physically anyway. That buzz cut hairdo and his clothes (especially that red jacket he wears. He never looked better. When I first saw this movie I thought Ed Norton's character was in love with Brad Pitt's character. Are they a gay couple? If only
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Brad Pitt in Fight Club is the ideal man (physically anyway. That buzz cut hairdo and his clothes (especially that red jacket he wears. He never looked better. When I first saw this movie I thought Ed Norton's character was in love with Brad Pitt's character. Are they a gay couple? If only
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