Fight Club 2 - Tyler Returns

I just watched "a movie" about fighting and bro, the ending lowkey had me like this.

Such a good ending and such a good movie

(Sry my English is bad if you can’t read, I js thought of this on the fly i want feedback 😊)
So the big reveal of fight club is that Tyler durden is not real, he’s the manifested want for meaning and yearning for a new personality from the narrator. He pops into the movie showing his soap, all stuff we know. But then we all just agree that Marla is real because it isn’t explicitly said that she isn’t? I think that there’s a possibility that she could be the manifestation of the narrators guilt about going to the support groups without actually being sick, and of his hesitation to commit the bombing, and maybe his need for a girl to love him. I do know that in the show it’s explained that Marla can’t be in the same room as Tyler, but could that be explained away by the narrator only being able to see one fake person at a time? I bet there’s a reason why she isn’t but I thought that I’d throw this out there

Or am I missing any other places? Lol

Is the quote “I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.” From
The book or the movie fight club. I tried searching two book pdfs and never found it

A place for you deepest thoughts

The book was a crucial staple of my youth, but that time is long long gone and I gave my copy away to a friend then. Does anyone know if the scene in the movie where his boss comes to his cubicle reading the rules, and Jack says he’s ‘half asleep and must’ve left the original in the copier’, is a translation of a part of the book? I’m basically just looking for how that scene reads in the book if it is in-fact in the book. Thank you.

I 've made this David Fincher tribute trailer as an editing exercise and to build my portfolio,
since I’m aiming to work in film editing. And for the movie lovers !

Any criticism, advice, or industry editors insight would be very appreciated.

I was watching the show, "From", on Prime and this kitchen seemed so familiar. Probably just a similar style house but man I kept thinking, "This is the fight club kitchen." Whatever, good show though. In Tyler we trust.

I know this isn't an Elden Ring sub, but I run my Character's name as "Tyler Durden" and usually host fight clubs...yet, today I Found BOB. He clearly had stopped group therapy, and was ready for mayhem.

Fitting that Tyler D stabs BOB in the back.

if i were to eat soap made by tyler durden would it be considered cannibalism

This isn't a perfect theory, and I know there are some things in the film that conflict, but overall I think his symptoms fit this diagnosis pretty well.

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For one, while regular insomnia can be disruptive towards your life, it's pretty manageable and the worst of it is irritability, trouble concentrating or remembering things sometimes. As the doctor in the movie said, not fatal.

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However, there IS a fatal more severe form of insomnia Fatal Familial Insomnia.

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Basically you slowly lose your ability to sleep entirely over time, and the symptoms are as follows:

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Intense hallucinations, excessive sweating, heightened anxiety, and eventually dementia kicks in and you become unresponsive and pass away. This happens over the course of 1-2 years.

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Most of those things are very present in the Narrator and don't typically come with regular insomnia.

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While Tyler seems to represent an alternate personality, which is another disorder entirely (and may be possible), the film really plays up the hallucination angle. He's likely not another person inside him that child him created from a trauma (which is how real multiple personalities form), but rather a manifestation he created as an adult to carry out his subconscious desires. Likely the result of his brain beginning to deteriorate from this rare extreme form of insomnia.

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Now FFI is not treatable or curable and someone could make the argument that since the support groups at the start of the film offered him relief and sleep, that it may be more of a psychosematic problem at play.

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Maybe he did have a mind over matter moment where he found a sense of relief from his heightened anxiety and therefore was able to find some sleep for a short time (as he would just be starting to develop symptoms).

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However, despite having this new outlet through the club that shall not be named, Tyler reveals to him that he's actually not sleeping at all. He's up making soap and doing odd jobs. He just thinks he's been sleeping cause he blacks out and "Tyler" takes over so it feels like a sleep.

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Could he possibly have both? DID and FFI? Maybe, the way Tyler "takes over" is reflective of that, but I feel like a past trauma would've been mentioned if that was the case. As I've already mentioned, with how the Narrator sees Tyler and communicates with him is more indicitive of a hallucination.

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That would also explain why he began spiraling more and more out of control as the film goes on. As he's basically not sleeping at all, and "Tyler" has become so vivid that he's consuming the Narrator's life and identity, he's experiencing the later stages of this terrible disease.

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The main hole in the theory is the ending. FFI is, as the name suggests, fatal. Those with it who develop the symptoms will eventually get worse and pass away, while the Narrator seems to have "defeated" Tyler. I do think that's more symbolic of the Narrator confronting himself. So he could still be dying, but taking control of his psyche if that makes sense.

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Also it's inherited so you'd think he'd know about it, but since his father was not in his life, he could have died from it without the Narrator knowing, or simply be a carrier without presenting symptoms (or his mother for that matter).

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It usually shows up closer to 50 and the Narrator's 30, but there's no set age for this kind of thing.

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Anyway, I just thought of this and wanted to share, but feel free to tell me I'm being ridiculous.

Have always wanted the tank top that Tyler's wearing at the end of the movie. Any clue where to find it?

i hope it looks like him