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There is more to Fight Club than meets the eye. I know this, because Tyler knows this.

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COMING SOON: [HIDDEN], Raymond K. Hessel, Chloe, Kubrick

For the Jack Durden Deniers (Click to Expand)

This website is a film analysis of the movie Fight Club, directed by David Fincher. I emphasize the word film here, since it has little to do with the novel Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk.
Efforts to discredit my theory typically consist of the following highly predictable and easily dismissible claims. Click each weak argument below to see why it is

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wrong. New claims will be posted and debunked as they are received.

Hole #1 - 'How can X be fake if people interact with them in the movie!?'
Asking this ignores the fact that we watch Tyler interact with dozens of people throughout the entire movie, meaning it does not matter at all who Marla, Bob or
Project Mayhem (or anyone else) talks to or what they do. This is like saying Tyler is real because we watch him talking to people, fighting Jack and stealing fat from
the liposuction clinic.

Hole #2 - 'That didn't happen in the book!'

Ah yes, the popular book vs film differences: these do not matter. I repeat, these do not matter.
It is important to remember that the book has virtually nothing to do with the film. Film adaptations rarely stay true to the book, and are instead used as a
foundation for a completely independent piece of art.
The Shining is a perfect example of this. The book is vastly different from the film, entire situations and scenarios were added and removed deliberately by Stanley
Kubrick to convey his own artistic intentions. Kubrick never even consulted Stephen King on most of what he changed, he had free reign.
This is par for the course when a great director is making a film adaptation. The author of Fight Club said himself:
Now that I see the movie, especially when I sat down with Jim Uhls and record a commentary track for the DVD, I was sort of embarrassed of the
book, because the movie had streamlined the plot and made it so much more effective and made connections that I had never thought to make.
There is a line about fathers setting up franchises with other families, and I never thought about connecting that with the fact that Fight Club was
being franchised and the movie made that connection. I was just beating myself in the head for not having made that connection myself.
- Chuck Palahniuk
The book is one thing, the movie is a completely different beast. It took the book and built on it, altered its meaning, and so much more.
Remember, we are not talking about The Hunger Games or Harry Potter, folks. Those are examples of a book being TURNED INTO a film.
This is a book being ADAPTED to film. The number of times I have had to explain this to grown adults is absolutely heart breaking.
So, making refutations of my evidence based on the book are by their very nature irrelevant since this is a film analysis of what David Fincher created, not the
contents of the book.
For this reason no comparisons will be drawn in my evidence between the film and the book, since they are unrelated. However, it is very important to note that I
will sometimes draw comparisons to the book in order to prove Fincher made deliberate changes in order to create his own piece of work with a specific message.

Hole #3 - So it was all a dream? That's stupid!!

Weirdly and sadly Ive encountered this argument before (which is really directed at Fincher, yet no one who makes this statement is remotely intelligent enough
to see the connection). Saying my claims here are wrong because it makes the movie stupid when interpreted through this lens.
e.g.:
It means that pretty much nothing in the film was real and it was mostly a figment of some crazy persons mind. Making the whole point of the film null and void.
You may aswell just say it was all a dream which is a cop out too.
An IMDB user shut down this argument perfectly
Movies like Vanilla Sky and Inception are built around the premis of one persons dream.

Hole #4 - Everything Else

Everything else: virtually every other counter point I have heard so far (i.e. why would Marla never be in the same room as Tyler, etc.) can be answered by one
simple idea, which is that virtually no one in the entire movie is real. This includes the people in support groups, the members of Project Mayhem and so forth.
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This is not a radical idea in the least and I will illustrate why. We know for a fact Jack is crazy enough to manufacture at least one person, why would he stop there?
We are likely watching the narrative of a psychotic break and subsequent suicide. That being said, look at the evidence below and decide for yourself.

Rule #1 Marla Is Not Real

Marla and Tyler Dress Alike
One of the first clues that Marla is not real is her likeness to Tyler. Fincher offers us clever, subtle hints that Tyler and Marla are the same person as Jack. One of
the most obvious signs are the clothing that Marla and Tyler wear.
Tylers hair is styled and worn almost identical to Marlas throughout most of the film. Marla and Tyler are both seen wearing a similar faux fur coat, wearing
sunglasses, almost identical rings and they are seen smoking in virtually every scene in the film.
Even the framing of the shots is nearly identical when they are shown wearing similar clothes as well as the same facial expressions.

Marla and Jack (Edward Norton) Dress Alike

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This is even more telling than Marlas likeness to Tyler, but slightly more symbolic.
Jack (the narrator, Edward Norton) is seen gradually looking more like Marla up until the final scene where we see the silhouettes of the two standing together,
holding hands.
From the back, it is virtually impossible to tell who is who.
Note how Jacks long coat and lack of pants have made it seem as if he is wearing a dress, a near perfect mirror image of Marla as they watch the 12 skyscrapers
be demolished.

Marla Has No Reflection, Neither Does Tyler

Marla and Tyler do not have reflections, because they do not exist.
Unless Jack is with Marla (or Tyler) their reflection or image will not appear. This is because this is the only time Marla is real to the narrator.
We can see a great example of this in the scene when Tyler is saving Marla from suicide and goes to her hotel to save her. On their way down of the hallway, they
walk directly by a convex mirror in the hallway.
When they both walk by, neither of them has a reflection. The mirror is facing the camera and should show the reflection of the two walking by, but the only
reflections we see are of the paramedics running past Marla and Tyler in the same exact spot where they had been walking.
We know for a fact that Jacks imagined alter personalities have no real objective image in the real world. This is clearly the case in the final scene of the movie
where Jack is fighting Tyler in the parking garage.
The film cuts to the security cameras in the parking garage (which Jack never saw, just like he never saw the scene where Tyler saves Marla) and we can see that
Tyler is not visible, since he does not exist.
The reason we see that Tyler and Marla have reflections in other scenes (e.g. when Jack is checking Marla for breast cancer or when Tyler is looking in the bathroom
mirror) is because at those points Jack was acting his himself observing the alter personality as a separate person.
In the scene where Tyler goes to save Marla, Jack is supposedly not there, meaning Tyler and Marla are not actually being observed (except by us). We are being
told to imagine what it would be like to see Tyler and Marla escape the hotel and in doing so the illusion of Marla and Tylers existence begins to disintegrate.
We are not watching Tyler save Marla in this scene, we are watching Jack leave the hotel completely alone, yelling at the paramedics franticly about how Marla is
infectious human waste (hence the user of the 3rd person when Marla is yelling at the paramedics.
Check the 3 slides above for proof or go to 50 minutes, 40 seconds in to the film to see it yourself.
Any 3rd person view will show they have no reflection (which is why we dont see it here, Tyler is telling us to imagine it so we see them). This is just like at the end
of the movie where we see the security footage from the garage. We see it is just Jack, because Jack did not see the footage, we are just supposed to be imagining
seeing it.
The blue arrow in the first slide is showing the reflection in the convex mirror as Tyler approaches it reflecting the image of the metal box/cables on the wall. In the
second slide you can see Marla and Tyler coming around the corner, directly in the line of the view of the mirror and all we see is the reflection of the box on the
opposite wall (even though the mirror is pointed TOWARDS them).
In the 3rd screenshot they still have no reflection even though the paramedics, who are now behind them, have a reflection.

Marla Takes Over Jack In the Laundromat

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In the laundromat scene we watch Marla take control over Jack, becoming his primary alternate personality.
Marla opens 2 Speed Queen brand dryers and takes out multiple pairs of mens blue jeans. She then walks to the vintage clothing store and sells them. This all
takes place while Jack is negotiating with her about sharing the support groups.
This marks the point in the movie where Jack is becoming Marla. If Jack is Marla then this means he is selling his own pants to the thrift store and
figuratively surrendering his masculinity.
Consider this: What are the odds that two dryers right next to each other would contain only mens blue jeans and not some other clothing? How did Marla know
those clothes were in there? Is there any other article of clothing that is more representative of Western masculinity? It is obviously a deliberate metaphor for
Jacks masculinity being hijacked by Marla, his alter-ego.
Later in the film we see Marla wearing a pink brides maid dress she claims she got at a thrift store. What if Jack, acting as Marla, bought this dress at the same time
he sold his own jeans? This would make perfect sense since Marla is seen selling her clothes at a vintage consignment store, which is for all intents and purposes
the same exact thing as a thrift store. In fact, upon reading the script, we see that the vintage clothing store is literally labeled as thrift store. Marla is likely
hinting at this when she says to Jack, you can borrow it sometime, since she knows it is actually Jacks.

Everything points to this scene representing the rapid change from Jack into Marla (Speed Queenget it?) or at the very least the psychological transition of Jack
into someone whose alternate personality is primarily Marla.
The Speed Queen dryers, only removing mens blue jeans, selling them in front of Jack and Marlas later admission that she got the pink dress at a thriftstore are all
very obvious signs this is what is taking place. Fincher did not accidentally create this sequence, it was very carefully planned.
If the idea of a cross dressing Jack is hard to believe for some reason, just think about Jacks relationship to Tyler. Everything we saw Tyler do, Jack was actually
doing or imagining himself watching.
It is only in the films narrative that Jack shows us a flashback where for a few spliced-in frames Jack IS Tyler. If you accept that this is a fact of the films narrative,
then it is completely logical that Marla is just another, yet unrealized, figment of his imagination he is living through. This ties in heavily with my timeline theory.
At the end of the film we watch Jack run around frantically, without pants, after he has decided he wants Marla instead of Tyler and Project Mayhem. He has
abandoned his masculinity entirely and is either accepting his emasculated self or is literally becoming a woman, depending on how you interpret the film.
This culminates in the final scene where we see the mirror image of Marla and Jack holding hands . Jack creates Bob, then Marla, then Tyler, then finally betrays
Bob and Tyler to accept his place as Marla (notice how Bob and Tyler both die the exact same way: a gun shot wound blowing out the back of their heads).
Jack has accepted his emasculated self, simply chosen to identify as an actual woman or is only keeping Marla as his main alter-ego.

Tyler Takes Over Jack On the Airplane

The first time we meet Tyler in the film is on the airplane. Did you ever notice what happened immediately before Tyler shows up?
On the plane Jack is talking to a middle aged black woman who is wearing sunglasses that resemble Tylers (see below comparison) and sitting next to Jack eating a
meal.
Jack then begins fantasizing about the plane breaking apart mid-flight after it collides with another plane. After he snaps out of this fantasy, Tyler is now sitting in
place of the woman. How on Earth could this be possible..?

Its called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea. - Jack

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This means the woman does not exist and Jack is likely sitting alone, either talking to himself or imagining himself talking to the woman and to Tyler. We watched a
woman turn into Tyler, sitting right next to Jack. What might this represent? Hmmm.
Furthermore, we see the woman is somewhat older and eating from a tray, which is an interesting parallel to how Marla provides food for
herself: stealing Meals on Wheels trays of food. This scene denotes the transition from Marla being the prominent alternate personality of Jack, to Tyler taking
over.
Jack boarded the plane as Marla, the destruction sequence is showing us the end of Marla and then he becomes Tyler. This explains why he loses his
baggage once he gets off the plane and is so confused as to why it was vibrating. Jack didnt pack his bag, Marla did!
He is now Tyler, and this is why the damaged cardboard box is the only luggage left on the conveyor belt, since this is Tylers luggage.
Fincher could not have made this much clearer when you consider the emergency exit sign above the door (last 2 slides above).
The emergency exit image shows a woman on the first section of the diagram, she then opens the exit, then in the final image is replaced by a man standing in her
place.
You can tell the female turns into a man by the change of clothing and hair between the first and final image of the emergency exit diagram.

Testicles and Balls, Marla is Jack Post-Testicular Cancer

One of the weirdest aspects of Fight Club is the fixation on testicles.

If you look at the film as a commentary on the emasculation of men in Western culture, it makes sense. But it goes deeper and helps explain why Marla and other
characters are not real.
There is an over-arching theme of removing manhood throughout the film.
Whether literally removing someones testicles or through references to sex toys. In either case it suggests the removal of what defines a man.
The metal cage behind Jack literally containing balls in the testicular cancer support group.
What is the significance of this? Why would members of Project Mayhem have such a fixation on removing mens balls?
Why would Marla go to a testicular support group in the first place?
Why would testicles need to be removed? It does not make sense unless you consider the idea that very little of the film is real.
For example, in the police interrogation room it makes sense that the police officers say We gotta get his balls since Jack would have anxiety about figuratively
losing his balls. Jack has essentially pussied out of a major plan, he has lost his balls (figuratively speaking, of course).
If Jack is Marla then it makes sense that Bob and Marla are both members of the testicular cancer group. Jack feels emasculated, at first he only feels moderately
insecure, so he imagines Bob there to help cope with his insecurity and anxiety about his actual testicular cancer.
He then creates Marla, who helps him cope but also represents his feeling of being literally feminized by the prospect of losing his balls.
If most of these things are not happening at all or are happening differently than they are presented (i.e. interactions with Marla, the support groups, etc.) then this
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evidence lends itself to the theory that we are simply seeing Jacks insecurities leak into the narrative through the coping mechanisms he created to
suppress them.
Marla makes a really interesting comment when she says that she has more of a right to be at the testicular cancer group than Jack, since you [Jack] still have
your balls.
He says, Youre kidding and Marla says I dont know, am I?
This is a really telling exchange, particularly when you consider they have this conversation mere seconds before the Speed Queen scene.
It suggests that if Jack is Marla neither one of them can possibly know if he does still have his testicles, since Jack is already so far into denial he has already created
two alternate personalities as coping mechanisms already.

Big Rubbery One

Dildos are extremely prominent throughout the film and lend a lot of credibility to the fact that Marla is not real.
Dildos represent the fact that Marla is taking Jacks masculinity or that he is surrendering it, and this could likely be a metaphorical device used to illustrate Jack
literally no longer physically has his testicles.
This would explain why we see Marla with dildos at the times and places that we do.
For example, outside of the support groups we see Marla smoking a cigarette when Jack goes to see if Marla is still attending groups.
In the shot, it is very difficult to see what she is holding in her hand as she lights her cigarette. If you adjust the color levels of the image, you can make out what
is clearly a dildo.
Why on earth would she be holding this outside of a support group if she were actually real? It makes no sense what so ever unless this is all just being imagined by
Jack as he is fondly remembering Marla and the support groups, only to remember that she (and the support groups) are the enemy of his masculinity, which
explains why she is holding the dildo.
Did you ever find it odd that when Jack is hugging Bob for the first time he says, strangers with this kind of honesty make me go a big rubbery one. Have
you ever heard this phrase used before? No? That is because no one says it. It makes no sense. Unless you consider more of his insecurities are leaking into the
narrative. He could only be referencing the BIG, RUBBERY dildo that he owns.

Another significant place we see a dildo is on Marlas dresser, which is a very interesting place for it. When Tyler
goes to save Marla, he leans against the dresser, causing the dildo to move. Marla then says, Oh dont worry, its not a threat to you.
This could be interpreted a number of ways. If Marla is Jack, and Jack is Tyler, then the dildo is likely not going to be used by any of them, so it is literally not a
threat. In addition, if Tyler is a coping mechanism who represents masculinity, he presumably actually has a penis so the dildo is not a threat while Jack who has
been possibly physically emasculated would see the dildo as a threat.
In addition, the positioning of the dildo on the dresser and next to the door lends itself to another interpretation that I feel makes more sense.
If Jack believes that this is where Marla stays, yet he is Marla, then this is a clever way of communicating to the viewer that Jack is leaving his manhood at the
door when he arrives and takes on the role of Marla. This would also help add even more strength to my vibrating suitcase theory (below).

The Vibrating Suitcase (Dildos Part II)

So, what was vibrating in there anyway..? The security guard says himself

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This is one of the strongest points for Marlas non-existence. The most interesting part about this scene is that Jack is utterly confused.
If he had been the person to actually pack his bags, then surely he would understand what COULD be vibrating in the suitcase.
The security guard even says, 9 times out of 10 its an electric razor.
But Jack continues to look at the security guard confused and says, my suitcase was vibrating? Implying he has no idea what could possibly be the cause.
However, if Jack is actually Marla, then Marla is likely the one who packed his bags. Which means there actually is a dildo in the luggage.
Jack acts totally confused about this because he himself has no idea he is Marla.
Think about it: the dildo is even sitting on top of the dresser, and Marla packed it.
The security guard even hints at this by saying, of course its company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo, we have to use the indefinite
article a dildo, never your dildo and looks at Jack skeptically.

This is brilliant because the security guard is essentially saying we cannot say its actually Jacks dildo, because we do not know he is Marla, it is indefinite and
ambiguous on purpose.
The fact that it is a security guard telling him this adds even more weight to this theory, as security guards act as a clever and reoccurring theme in the movie as a
metaphor for Jacks insecurities.
This also helps explain the box on the luggage carousel. This is likely the luggage that Tyler packed, or at the very least is supposed to represent Tylers luggage
being picked up by Jack while Marlas luggage has now been confiscated.
This ties in absolutely flawlessly with the transitioning theory where the woman sitting next to Jack becomes Tyler instantly on the airplane.
Jack then leaves the plane, his luggage is no where to be found (which is really Marlas luggage) yet Tylers tattered, broken box is on the luggage carousel waiting to
be picked up.
The fact that the security guard also refers to the baggage handlers as throwers is very interesting.
This is not a common term that is actually used, which you could argue is supposed to be funny, but if you accept the fact we are potentially talking about a
character whom is either figuratively or physically becoming a woman, then this could be a reference to the homosexual slang pitcher.

Marla and Jack Live In a Hotel, the Paper Street House Doesnt Exist
The house Tyler lives in, where Jack moves into and Project Mayhem uses as a base does not exist.
Equally interesting is Marla does not have an apartmentor a houseshe lives in a hotel.
This is information we never directly receive during the entire film, unless you are paying very close attention. Marla clearly lives in a hotel, but Jack somehow does
not even know this even after having been at her hotel room.
Who else do we know that spends almost all of his time in hotels? Oh right, Jack.
When Marla calls Jack to tell him she is committing suicide, Jack says, just picturing Marla throw herself around her crummy apartment but we know that
Marla is staying at a hotel because the exterior shots of her apartment have a neon sign in the background that says Rooms.

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If this isnt enough to conclude she is living at a hotel, in additional exterior shots we see the hotel name (two different names are shown), Hotel Lindy and Bristol
Hotel.
The latter of the two being the actual, real hotel in Los Angeles where the exterior shots were filmed.
In the beginning after meeting with Tyler after his condo explodes, Jack says ah, I need to find a hotel.

After Jacks condo exploded, he met with Tyler, said he needed a hotel, and actually went and got one.
He did not go to the Paper Street house, because it does not exist.
This explains why when he handed the beer to Tyler, the neon sign in the background went out (which is a visual representation of his masculinityits an actual
penis). He was transitioning back into Marla and turning off his masculine persona.
Tyler and Marlas residences are the exact same residence, in that it is only the hotel Jack is living at but he is imagining two separate places for his two
separate alternate personalities.
He has multiple people living in one house which also serves as a clever metaphor for his psyche.

This helps explain Jacks distaste when Marla begins spending more time at the Paper Street house, why Tyler
and Marla cannot be in the same room together (because he cannot be two people simultanousely) and why Project Mayhem causes the Paper Street house to
turn into a living, breathing thing.
Jack says, She invaded my support groups now she invaded my home and explains why Tyler is adamant about not being in the same room.
The personalities are losing their compartmentalization (think about it, Marla begins living at the Paper Street house even, then Bob moves in and Project
Mayhem, they all wind up in one house or one compartment) and Jack is losing his sanity as a result, which we watch deteriorate through the rest of the film.
The house itself is dilapidated because it is a visual metaphor for Jacks mental break down between the different personalities he has manufactured.
The Paper Street house now clearly becomes just an illusion, even the name of the street of the house points to this. A Paper Street is a street that an engineer
has planned for, but has not yet been constructed. The house does not actually exist, Jack just imagined it.

This explains why Bob is buried in the garden and essentially recycled into Jacks psyche at the Paper Street
house.
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This explains the Recycle Your Animals bumper sticker on the Lincoln Towncar car Tyler and Jack crash with two project mayhem members in the back, and why
Tyler refers to Marla as a predator posing as a house pet. And yet another nail in the coffin is Marla comparing her death rattle to a hair ball.
Bob is even referred to as the big moosey.
We even see that as Jack gets off the bus at the Paper Street house, the advertisement on the bus (which is not easily visible without adjusting color levels) hints at
this, right before he enters the Paper Street house where the animals are (Bob, Tyler, Project Mayhem).
Click the images to see the full text on the bus advertisement then view the following frame of Jack walking into the illuminated Paper Street house.

Myself, Myself, Myself, Myself

Once Jack leaves Marlas place after examining her for breast cancer, he runs into Bob. We can see written on the wall behind Jack the phrase Myself 4 times, in a
column. In other shots we can see the full writing actually reads I love myself.
Why does Bob appear at this point when we havent seen him since the beginning of the movie?

He is appearing because Jack just saved Marla and now Bob wants to be saved as well.
This is why Bob is profoundly thanking him after the fight. By doing this he has given Bob enough attention and validation as a separate identity that he is now
alive to his psyche again, he is again a living person as far as his mind is now concerned.
Marla has just told Jack she stopped going to the support groups, why? Its actually because Jack is no longer at the support groups, thats the only reason.
The same goes for Bob. Bob hasnt been going to the support groups because now Jack is no longer there, so they do not exist without him there since they were
his coping mechanism for dealing with his use of the support groups and nothing more.
His two other personalities are now using this opportunity to try to get back into his life. Need even more proof? Did you notice anything interesting about the
screenshot above? Scroll back up the previous screenshot of this same scene where Jack is walking out of Marlas hotel after checking her for cancer.
The spray painted words are not there. This is telling us that now there are 4 main people that Jack is essentially operating as, including himself in addition to Bob,
Marla, Tyler. This could not be anymore obvious as the writing I love myself is literally written on the wall.
The only characters throughout the entire film who we ever know the full names of are Bob (Robert Paulson), Marla (Singer) and Tyler (Durden). These are the only
real people as far as Jack is concerned.

Tyler Saves Marla from Committing Suicide

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Even Jack says now why would Tyler think its a good idea to save Marla? This is partly a sly
reference to the twist ending, where we discover Tyler is Jack. But if you take this deeper you realize its because if Marla dies, Jack dies, meaning Tyler also dies. If
Marla is committing suicide and she is also Jack, then it means Jack will die as well as Tyler. In other words, we are watching Jack lying in the bed trying to commit
suicide calling Tyler at the non-existent Paper Street House. This is the incentive for Tyler to save her. If Jack dies, everyone dies.
This is why Jack asks this rhetorical question of why Tyler would waste his time saving her. Why else would Tyler save her if she were an actual person? It makes no
sense.
In addition there is this: and this is a theory with only circumstantial evidence, I admit, but it makes sense. The Xanax Marla tries over dosing on is the Xanax that
the doctor prescribes Jack at the beginning of the film, which we never see happen.
Jack requests two pills, one of which is an anxiolytic like Xanax.

We know Jack initially sees his doctor at the beginning of the film to get medicine to help him sleep and specifically mentions two separate kinds of pills in the voice
over.
Jack has in mind Tuinal and Seconal, both of which share very similar properties to Xanax, being anxiolytics and hypnotic drugs.
What if when Jack is at the doctor, he is actually getting diagnosed as having testicular cancer, and is in fact prescribed these drugs to help cope with the anxiety
(along with being told to attend cancer support groups)?

Left In the Copier

Jacks boss finds the fight club rules in the copier and confronts Jack about them. Jack replies with something Tyler might say, then says Tylers words coming out of
my mouth. And I used to be such a nice guy.
Immediately following the phone rings and it is Marla saying she thinks she has breast cancer.
She interestingly says my tits going to rot off This is carefully worded, since it implies she is dead and decaying or falling apart.
Why is this? Consider that up until now Marla only seems to call out of desperation, and within the context that she is dying or about to be gone forever (her
suicide call first, now she is decomposing).
Is it really a coincidence that Marla calls him right after we see Jack being taken over by Tylers personality (i.e. the words he chooses to use to tell his boss off?)
This is Marla saying to him that she is basically dying and her personality isnt needed anymore, shes trying to get his attention so she can continue to exist to Jack.
If anyone thinks this is a stretch, consider who pops up out of no where immediately after Jack leaves Marlas, where he checked her for cancer. Bob. What are the
odds that 2 previously forgotten characters appear within 60 seconds of each other, both in need of Jacks attention and help?
Whats really interesting about this is that if Marla isnt real, then it means the phone never rang. Which means Jack said something that was
certainly disturbing to his boss, but even more disturbing is that he just picked up a telephone that didnt even ring and then told his boss it was important and he
had to take the call.
This would explain the boss looking disturbed and genuinely put off. It also provides more proof that Marla is simply another figment of his imagination in that she
is a coping mechanism. The more she is needed, the stronger she becomes. This applies to Jacks other personalities as well.
Jack has just been found out along with his association with Fight Club, an enormously panic-inducing experience, triggering the need for his coping
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mechanism, Marla, to help him through the ordeal.

Right on cue, the phone rings and it is Marla to help get him out of the situation, literally asking him to leave work immediately and come to her house to check
her for breast cancer.
Jacks boss says something quite revealing as well, Pretend youre me.

Self Improvement is Masturbation

This is a big one. There are a ton of references to masturbation and fucking yourself throughout the film. The most notable scene is where Tyler and Jack board
the bus and Tyler says, Self improvement is masturbation, now self destruction and trails off.
The actual full sentence Tyler was supposed to say, according to the actual script, is masturbation is self improvement, now self destruction is the answer.
Fast forward to when Tyler saves Marla and they are now in the habit of constantly having sex with each other. If masturbation is self improvement, and if Marla,
Tyler and Jack are all the same person, then Jack is masturbating.
Sowhere does the self improvement come in?

In the scenes where Tyler and Marla are having sex and yelling, what is Jack doing? He is engaging in self improvement. He is shown reading and exercising while the
house is literally being destroyed and falling on his head.
This is proof that Marla is not real, and is in fact Jack, since he is essentially masturbating in these scenes through his self improvement as the house is destroyed.
This ties in later with the demolition of the credit card buildings.

Breast Cancer Time Change

When Jack goes to Marlas to help her check for breast cancer it is still day light outside. His exchange with Marla takes less than a minute, yet when he leaves it is
entirely dark outside. Immediately out front of Marlas he bumps into Bob. He had just saved Marla from dying now Bob appears, someone we basically thought
was gone/dead up until now.
Where did the time go? We know Jack didnt hang out with Marla for an extended period of time since we watch the entire exchange and right after checking her
for breast cancer he says Are we done here? and rushes out. This takes place in just seconds.
This change in time makes sense however if he simply lives at the hotel, and when he left the hotel was transitioning from being Marla to becoming Jack again. Why
would Jack think its necessary to help Marla check for cancer anyway?
If you consider the idea that Marla is in fact Jack, then it makes perfect sense. If Marla has cancer, Jack has cancer so he has to check himself for cancer. This
explains why Marla offers to return the favor as well.
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She says she will check his prostate, which is interesting since it connects to the idea that he is somehow removed of his sexual organs or they are compromised by
cancer.
Marlas anxiety about having cancer is figurative in that it represents her impending death if Jack doesnt acknowledge her, but it also, again, represents Jacks
anxieties about his actual cancer leaking into the narrative through his manufactured alternate personalities.

Infectious Human Waste

Everyone remembers how Tyler Durden makes his soap stolen fat from the liposuction clinic. In the scene where they go to steal the fat they alert the attention
of the security guard (more on this later) and hide behind a dumpster marked infectious waste. To be more specific, the contents of the dumpsters are in fact
infectious human waste.
When Tyler had gone to save Marla, we see her yelling at the paramedics and emergency responders that are coming to save her that shes infectious human
waste. Even more interestingly she is speaking about herself in the 3rd person.
This makes perfect sense since Marla is Tyler and in this scene we are actually watching Jack running away from the hotel and speaking about Marla.

Shes referred to as infectious human waste because Tyler and Jack know this, so she knows it.
Just like Jack said in the first 30 seconds of the movie, I know this, because Tyler knows this.
What are the odds that Marla, if she were her own individual person and not a figment of Jacks imagination, would choose to use the words Shes infectious
human waste! to describe herself in the third person when we know that Jack and Tyler literally use infectious human waste to make soap. This is a deliberate
connection the director was trying to make.
This is why Tyler is wearing rubber gloves when he has sex with Marla.

I Want to Have Your Abortion

After Tyler and Marla have sex Marla famously says I havent been fucked like that since grade school. This line in the film was actually improvised by Helena. The
actual line in the script is I want to have your abortion. This is an odd choice of words even for someone who is supposed to play a dark and cynical character
like Helena it kind of doesnt make sense.

However if you consider that Marla is Tyler and Jack, then Jack is fucking himself, and will ultimately destroy himself essentially an abortion of himself. This makes
her choice of words make much more sense. Self improvement is masturbation, now self destruction is related to this also.

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Tyler never finishes his sentence. Since we know that Tyler was actually supposed to say, masturbation is self improvement, now self destruction is the answer
(based on the script) then this makes perfect sense. Marla is Jack, Jack is also Tyler, when Marla and Tyler are done having sex she says I want to have your
abortion which is the same as self destruction, since they are the same person.

Cinderella and the Glass Slipper

Marla says something very interesting after having sex with Tyler, as she comes downstairs while Jack is feverishly trying to scrub his jacket clean in the kitchen.
Earlier in the film we saw Jack go into the bathroom to find used condoms in the toilet.
Marla says

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation.

For those of you who might not know, this is a reference to the fairy tale Cinderella. A story of a woman who puts on a piece of clothing (a shoe) and undergoes a
transformation. Remember the gown Marla is wearing?
Marla even says herself Its a bridesmaids dress. Someone loved it intensely for one day, and then tossed it.
Was Cinderella a brides maid? No, but she was a poor maid (literally taken from the Cinderella text) and the entire story of Cinderella occurs in one day and
completely revolves around the transformation of characters.
When Jack is first talking about Tyler having sex with Marla, he says,

How could Tyler not go for that? Night before last, he was splicing sex organs into
Cinderella.

Why would Marla make this comment about the glass slipper and then why would Jack conveniently make such a direct parallel with his comment about Tyler
SPLICING IN SEX ORGANS (literally) into Cinderella?
Marla saying this implies she is Cinderella in this metaphor, Jack then says that it makes sense that Tyler is ok with this since he is used to splicing in sex organs to
Cinderella. Theres one problem here though, Jack says this about Tyler before Marla ever makes her comment about the glass slipper.
This is consistent with other points in the film where we see that characters seemingly share what they know with one another, i.e. I know this, because Tyler
knows this. because ultimately, they are all sharing the same brain.
And sure enough, how many condoms are in the toilet, despite the script stating there should be 6? 4 (one for each main alternate personality).

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In the script the original Disney film that is referenced in Jacks comment is Little Mermaid (instead of Cinderella). This shows that Fincher deliberately made a
change to the script in order to make this connection between the two.
Think about the implications of making a parallel between Fight Club and Cinderella, particularly with Rule #2. This would make Bob LITERALLY the fairy godmother,
which is completely congruent with my statements so far about him being some type of feminized God and/or nurturer.

Rule #2 Bob Is Not Real

Bob Had Bitch Tits

Bob (played by Meatloaf), who we later come to know as Robert Paulson, supposedly was a former body builder who had his testicles removed and grew breasts
after his hormone therapy.
There are a few obvious things here.
For instance, obviously Bobs breasts represent the general emasculation of men in American culture, even under very shallow scrutiny, this is generally accepted.
But doesnt giving a supporting character actual breasts come across as cartoonish and unrealistic?
How many men have you ever heard of have breasts as large as Bob? Its so uncommon that it is virtually unheard of.
Jack describes Bobs breasts as

Huge sweating tits that hung enormous, the way youd think of Gods as big.
This is yet another odd choice of words amongst many others throughout the film (remember a big rubbery one?) that doesnt seem to make sense unless taken
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in a tongue-in-cheek, ironic kind of way.

But if this is the point, what are we supposed to deduce from it?

The actual lines from the script, to give this some context, are
Six months ago, Bobs testicles were
removed. Then hormone therapy. He
developed bitch tits because his
testosterone was too high and his
body upped the estrogen.
If youve been following along until now and agree that it is probable that none of the other people exist, and that Jack most likely was either diagnosed with
testicular cancer (and feels feminized) or has chosen to actually become a woman, it makes the case for Bobs inexistence even stronger.
If Bob isnt real and is just another personality of Jacks, then this further supports the theory that Jacks testicles were either removed or going to be and he
received hormone therapy either to account for his lack of testicles (in the case of testicular cancer) or to complete a transformation into a woman (which would
account for the anxieties related to growing breasts/losing breasts/selling his clothes and buying womens clothing/etc.)
Additionally there are 2 very obvious things that come to mind regarding Jacks comments on Bobs breasts.
#1.) Most Western religions do not believe that God is a woman.
#2.) Most Western religions do not believe their male God has breasts.
So whats the significance of this?
Bob is the creator, in the sense that he is the origin of Marla and Tyler. Think about the quote above.
God = creator.
Breasts = nurturer/mother (creator).
We know that Tylers appearance was extracted from the hotel welcome video Jack saw on the hotel tv and that he readily constructs his alternate personalities
around the media and advertising hes exposed to, so this perfectly explains where Bob comes from.
Bob is just another construct of his psyche, pulled from scattered artifacts he has experienced due to his insomnia and/or general psychosis.
Jack even hints at this when he says

You know that chest expansion program you see on late night TV? That was his idea.
Who stays up all night watching television and infomercials because he cant sleep? There you go.
The breast expansion program isnt the only piece of media influence that we see in Bob.
When we see him again outside Marlas hotel he is holding a box of Krispy Kreme donuts and Sunny D orange juice, 2 items that were in Jacks garbage can in the
beginning of the film.

Bob Gets His Mind Blown, Just Like Tyler

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When Bob is doing an operation for Project Mayhem he is shot in the head by a security guard as he is running away.
Right from jump street there are some major problems with this idea that are highly unrealistic.
Bob was unarmed, running away, and was shot in the head.
Meanwhile his only partner who was helping him, who was also running away, found the time to go back and pick up big Moosey all on his own and bring him back
to the non-existent Paper Street house.
The big questions here are
Why would a cop shoot someone who was unarmed and running away? Keep in mind this film was made in 1999, long before 9/11, and the Project Mayhem
members were just interested in vandalizing a piece of corporate art. Would a cop really shoot someone in the head for this?
Also, where the hell was the omnipresent Tyler Durden when all of this was happening? Tyler is never missing from the Paper Street house or any other Project
Mayhem operation and is often the one leading them, yet he is completely absent from this operation with no explanation.
Why is this?
We see Tyler overseeing every other aspect of the house, even doing things as mundane as indoctrinating the Project Mayhem members over a megaphone as
they do garden work in the backyard (informing them they are not a unique snowflake, more on this later), yet he was completely absent and ignorant regarding
one of their most destructive operations as an organization?

My 2 Grown Kids

When Bob is first confiding in Jack at the testicular cancer support group, he even implies he has two adult children.
Bob says, Im bankrupt, Im divorced, my two grown kids wont even return my phone calls.
Interesting. What is something we learn about Marla and Tyler after Jack comes home to find his condo exploded and he attempts to call both of them?
Tyler: I star 69d you, I never pick up the phone.
Marla: I can hear you breathing.
Tyler is deliberately screening his phone calls, while Marla (who we know lives at a hotel, and cannot possibly have caller ID) simply picks up the phone.
Furthermore, its pretty damn hard for your 2 grown kids to return your phone calls when the phone youre calling them on doesnt receive incoming calls

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Bob and Marla Lose Their Tits

Another interesting piece of evidence that proves Bobs inexistence are his breasts, or rather him losing his breasts, just as Marla does, when the prospect of him
being retired as an alternate personality becomes a possibility.

My tits going to rot off.

Lets rewind.
Remember how Marla called Jack and said my tits going to rot off? Consider the timing.
We know she is virtually no longer in Jacks conscience anymore (either as a real or imaginary person) and she begins to have anxiety that she is going to lose her
breasts. Weird.

Theyre going to have to open my pecs and drain the fluid again.
Bob tells Jack, theyre going to have to open my pecs and drain the fluid again while confiding in Jack at one of the support group meetings. In other words, Bob is
going to lose his breasts.
The timing of this exchange is exactly in the same context as Marla telling Jack her tit is going to rot off since this is the time right before Marla enters the story
and effectively replaces Bob as his primary alternate personality.
Bobs pecs didnt need to be drained, he was beginning to disintegrate the same way Marla was after Jack had abandoned them for Tyler. And just like Marla came
back as an alternate personality after Jack checked her for breast cancer, Bob showed up immediately after seeking the same salvation.

The Father Must Have Been Huge

Jack explains his occupation to the woman on the airplane, who later turns into Tyler on the same exact flight, saying
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside.
Now, should we initiate a recall?
The movie cuts to Jack inspecting the car wreckage with two technicians. One of the technicians says

The father mustve been huge. See how the fat burnt into the drivers seat with his
polyester shirt? Very modern art.
Who is the father? Just like inferred earlier with the subtle hints regarding the breasts and God, the father is Bob. Further proof he is not real. Right now if you are
thinking so Bob is the father, mother and God..or..huh? then try not to overthink it.
The symbolism is simple and completely congruent with the theme of the film regarding the duality of the sexes, particularly within the narrator.
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Bob is the creator man and woman or God, that gives birth to the rest. Even the members of Project Mayhem treat Bob like a God after he dies, almost
ritualistically chanting his name was Robert Paulson repeatedly, even though it makes absolutely no sense in the context of the story or the timing.
So back to the car wreck.
What makes me so certain that Bob was driving the car?
a.) Hes huge.
b.) The car that is in the wreck is the same Lincoln Towncar that Jack and Tyler later crash and wreck.
c.) And um, oh, yeahBobs shirt is burnt to the seat.

we have just lost cabin pressure.

Rule #4 Project Mayhem Is Not Real

One of the most common questions I have been receiving email about is, how did Project Mayhem carry Marla into the building at the end of the film if she is
indeed not real, and why were the Project Mayhem members chanting Bobs name? The answer to this is pretty self explanatory Project Mayhem does not exist.

The Subconscious

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Project Mayhem members do not exist and are instead like under developed alternate personalities of Jacks.
Think about it: none of them have a full name (except Bob, who we knew of before) and even Tyler tries indoctrinating them, telling them they are not special or
unique. Whats the point of this? Consider that up until now we know that Tyler wants exclusive control over Jack and this is likely why he doesnt like Marla (Tyler
even says shes a sport fuck he doesnt actually care about her).
This follows a very similar film where ultimately nothing was real Inception. We see the subconscious represented as a bunch of random, manufactured people
who are not actually real or part of the story as a whole, yet still behave in a way to protect the mind from realizing what it is experiencing is not actually really
happening.
This is why all Project Mayhem members must wear the same clothes and not ask questions. Project Mayhem members are nothing more than the subconscious
producing more alternate personalities. This is explains why Tyler gives each member of Project Mayhem a test before getting into the Paper Street House by
forcing them to stick around on the porch, hes basically vetting them as compliant alternate personalities.
He wants control, and once theyre in they are told to do everything. No hair, no name, no unique identifying characteristics whatsoever.

You are not a unique snowflake, you are the same decaying matter as everything else.

As referenced in Rule #1 and Rule #2, Bob is recycled into the garden at the Paper Street house as would any other casualty that does not exist. Bob being buried
in the backyard as Angel Face suggests is just as much symbolic as it is literal, he would be buried in the backyard of this nonexistent house, which serves as a
metaphor for his psyche, recycling him.

Youre Tyler Durden

The first time we ever find out that Jack is actually Tyler is when the bar tender in the halo brace tells Jack that he was the one who gave him the lye burned kiss.
There are some very interesting things about this scene.

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The most direct evidence that this man standing behind the bar does not exist is that he appears from absolutely nowhere. We can follow as Jack walks right past
the bar and sees nothing behind it, then a single second later he magically appears when Jack turns back. There are no doors leading to behind the bar and he is
wearing a halo brace which is screwed into his skull so there is no way he was bending over, somehow behind the bar (as some people have speculated).
So where did he come from?
Additionally, the fact this Project Mayhem member is wearing a halo brace is obviously symbolic. It fits in perfectly with the religious/God oriented thread that is
seen throughout the film and makes him the second member of Project Mayhem that has a very obvious and literal tie in with this religious motif. Angel Face (Jared
Leto) being the other member.
Remember what happened to Angel? Looks like the same thing to happened to the bartender, what a coincidence

Rule #3 and remaining 5 parts of Rule #4 will be posted shortly!

Stay tuned, this site is a constant work in progress and a lot more rules are on
the way!
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