The hero's first character is Jack. Jack is the recall coordinator of the largest automobile company in America. Like all people in our time, he is strong and small, strong and weak, with infinite expectations in his heart, but he is trapped in life and work. He has a well-decorated apartment with his favorite sofa, a sofa covered with green stripes and a coffee table with "yin and yang patterns" that attract him. He loves all the furniture, and even the soundproof cement wall has assumed the responsibility of protecting the furniture. He regards this apartment as his life and has been desperately protecting it.
But who would have expected that after the outbreak of endless insomnia, his second personality gradually emerged in his consciousness and took control of his life. When insomnia was hard to get rid of, he chose to join various cancer groups and listen to dying people crying about their lives. Using this way of crying and venting above the pain of others, his heart gained a short peace. But it didn't last long. In these group classes, he noticed a woman as elusive as himself. "Her lies reflect my lies." ? She doesn't have cancer, but like Jack, she relies heavily on this form of group class. In the film, the frivolous scene of her smoking everywhere and her appearance of crossing the road openly are full of mystery and panic. In order to keep a secret in the group class, he was angry and helpless, so he had to share it fairly with Mara Singh. In such a cancer charity, the way for cancer patients to avoid pain is psychotherapy. Jack once found his soul animal-penguin. However, after knowing Mara Singh, the psychic animal who appeared in the inner cave miraculously became this woman. The anger when the lie was exposed turned into a cover-up for true love. Jack fought back his heart and chose to suppress his desire for Mara Singh, which became the real reason for his insomnia again.
After a fair class by Mara Singh, insomnia became worse. When Jack was on the verge of collapse, he met his other face, that is, the man who pointed the gun at himself first. This is the hero's second personality, called Taylor Deaton. He has all the qualities that Jack lacks: wildness, fierceness, decisiveness, rebellion, freedom and recklessness. After a brief meeting on the plane, Jack praised Taylor bluntly. You are the most interesting one of the disposable friends I know. Jack, as a typical modern man whose freedom is bound by work, feels nothing new because he is often plagiarized on business trips. I don't know when to fall asleep or where to wake up every day. Hotels and airports are repetitive scenes, and the use of disposable products makes the "tasting period" of everything infinitely short. Even the people in these scenes are disposable. Taylor is penniless, except for all his personality characteristics. He lives in a house that will be demolished. The windows are sealed, the doors can't be locked and the stairs are crumbling. There is no available furniture in the house, which gives people the overall feeling that it is shabby, dirty, dirty and noisy.
Before meeting Jack, Taylor was a soap manufacturer. His understanding of soap is different from ordinary people. For him, as long as there is enough soap, enough explosives can be made. All he can think about is how to get back at society. Even the raw materials for making soap come from the surgical waste of liposuction clinic. In this way, he sold women's fat back to them. The place where soap is made is simple and dirty. Taylor even burns Jack with alkali, making Jack face up to the pain and unable to escape.
Obviously, this completely different person from Jack doesn't care about material satisfaction. He opposes advertising-led consumerism and hates being enslaved by things other than work and material things. "Martha's world is slowly sinking, don't let yourself have everything, don't be a perfect person. We must evolve and water will cover us. " "You must first give up everything, be fearless and face the fact that you will die." "Only by abandoning everything can you be free." This is Taylor's philosophy of life. Jack has just lost his favorite apartment, and he is quietly waiting for the police to detect the person who blew up the apartment, waiting for insurance claims; When he and Taylor lived in that shabby house, he and Taylor secretly organized a "fight club". Fighting here is not a way of fitness, but a cruel fight without any tools to release pain and prove that you are not alone. They believe that by returning to the primitive violent instinct of human beings, "everything can return to the original starting point".
? Fight clubs only exist at parties. The members here are all schizophrenic perverts like Jack. They live in all walks of life and have great potential, but they are wasted by modern society. "Advertising tempts us to buy cars and clothes, so we try to buy things we don't need. We are a generation forgotten by history, with no purpose, no status, no world war and no economic panic. Our war is just a psychological war, and our panic is just our life. We grew up watching TV and believed that one day we would become rich and become stars or rock stars. But we won't, that's the reality we are gradually facing, so we are very angry. " Thus, in the fight club, people got rid of all the trivialities required by the social atmosphere, re-formulated the rules of the club, and found what they really longed for in the desperate struggle. The frustration at work will not be brought here. Even Xiao Li, who can't remember anything at work, fights first-class. However, even if you play first-class, you will change into the first personality immediately after the party. People here have a skillful ability to wander between two personalities, and the two "I" do not invade each other and live in peace.
Jack is different. He didn't realize his split personality, and he didn't feel any switch between personalities. He can only perceive that he is beginning to become different. "If I used to go home with anger, I would clean the room and wax the furniture. I should find another apartment and claim compensation from the insurance company. I should have felt sorry for my loss, but I didn't. " "I think the people in the gym are really hard. Aiming at Calvin Klein's standards, should men be like this? " "After the fight, I felt saved." During his time with Taylor, Jack's consciousness was infiltrated by his subconscious, and the second personality was projected onto the first personality. He used to be a well-dressed man, who was strict about his dress and image, did not smoke or fight, was polite, modest and courteous, and was a well-educated "normative person". However, now, he wears blood-stained clothes to work, doesn't wear a tie, smokes in public places, and talks back to his boss ... His change, in a sense, is a struggle against his past life, a struggle against being too obedient to himself. He has been living in that shabby house, as if he had given up his material life. However, when he received the new progress about the explosion of the apartment, he was very painful and difficult to pull away: "That apartment is equal to my life, and every piece of furniture in it is my favorite. What was destroyed was not cold things, but me. " Here, in fact, he can conclude that it was himself who destroyed his apartment, but he hesitated and chose to trust others.
When Mara Singh called to tell him that she had taken an overdose of sleeping pills and needed Jack's help urgently, his first personality instinctively avoided Mara Singh's hint. He chose to ignore her appeal. However, the second personality flashed out, rescued Mara Singh and enthusiastically released the original desire. In the process, Jack only felt as if he had had a strange dream. At least when he woke up and saw Mara Singh and Taylor, he made it clear that he had never had sex with Mara Singh. After that, Jack had to face the sound coming from the sound barrier every night. He thinks he is a quiet corner. Taylor and Mara Singh never appear at the same time. Jack assures Taylor that he will never say anything about Mara Singh or the house. There have been all kinds of split personalities in this movie, but only Jack is the most split. His second personality is more independent than anyone else, and it seems that his second personality has evolved to manipulate and deceive the first personality. This is precisely because he is more psychologically distorted than anyone else. Just like the racket, the harder the racket, the higher the bounce. Jack grew up in a deformed family. His parents never appear at the same time, and his father forms a new family every six years. The existence of "congenital inferiority complex" has since planted the seeds of psychopathy and personality split. He always abides by social norms, accepts the tempering of ethics and morality, and accepts the success of consumerism and efficiency priority. When he grew up, he repeated the boring work day after day, but he still didn't become the person he wanted to be when he was a child. He gradually lost his way and didn't know who he was. "Work can't represent you, bank deposits can't represent you, the car you drive can't represent you, the things in your wallet can't represent you, and clothes can't represent you. You are just one of ordinary people ... "Realizing this, Jack wants to destroy everything beautiful, including but not limited to Mara Singh.
At this point, Taylor's whereabouts have been out of Jack's control. If the second personality infiltrated the first personality before, now it is the second personality that controls Jack's life. He is like a bad guy who doesn't say anything. No one can find out his whereabouts, but he already knows everyone's. Taylor secretly organized the army, expanded the influence of "Fight Club" throughout the country, and implemented the "great destruction" plan. Bob died unfortunately while carrying out the sabotage mission, which became the breakthrough of Jack's awakening. He began to pursue Taylor. "I have been living in a scene of deja vu. Everywhere I go, I feel as if I have passed. It's like following a hermit ... I can feel the feeling of fighting the night before. I am always one step behind butler. " Jack asked a member who he really was, and the answer was "Taylor Detton". He was shocked and reconfirmed his relationship with Mara Singh. Then Taylor suddenly appeared. During the conversation, Jack made sure that he and Taylor were the same person. Jack finds it hard to believe, but Taylor is used to it. Taylor criticized him for not keeping his word, which led Mara to know too much, so he wanted to crowd out Mara Singh. In order to protect his beloved Mara, Jack finally got up the courage to confess and ensure Mara's safety. He turned himself in to the police and asked them to stop his sabotage. On the other hand, he tried to defuse the bomb and destroy the "great destruction" plan. At this time, he saw the second personality Taylor. When they were fighting, Jack shot, but he missed Taylor. In desperation, he chose to destroy himself or his second personality, but he didn't want to be shot but stayed on Taylor, and Taylor left. The split personality has finally come to an end. In the explosion and firelight of the building, Jack took Mara's hand and reviewed his "achievements". At the end of the film, I was troubled by insomnia for a long time, so that the protagonist with split personality finally returned to normal. The second personality was strangled, and the main personality finally defeated the secondary personality.
As the hero wrote in the poem, "worker bees can leave, even drones can fly away, and the queen is their slave." At first, we always thought that the "worker bees" in the bee colony were slaves, but we ignored that the queen bee was the most powerless existence. The strongest thing is sometimes the weakest, but the weakest can lead. Warn the audience never to underestimate a trivial thing and a person as small as an ant; On the other hand, this spirit also makes us dare to resist. If the doctor can treat insomnia as a serious disease at the beginning of the film, and Jack can control his indifferent second personality without letting himself go, then the fight club may not exist and Bob will not die needlessly.