but I mean that also justifies a reading where almost all of the movie itself is a delusional dream
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I kind of assumed it had to be. I mean, he has to be misremembering more than just literally Tyler
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Yes, the vast majority of it HAS to be constructed.
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for my money that's why my favorite part of the movie is the diegetic first half
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where it's just a surreal sequence of the Narrator narrating shit we're not meant to take literally
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my favorite thing abt Fight Club just cinema-wise ishow Fincher lets the Narrator drive the action
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he just talks and talks and the camera gamely follows his narration wherever it leads
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that first half is v good at prescribing what the malady is, the enervating numbness of modernity
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that's what holds up the second half's much shakier story abt searching for a cure
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I still find the depiction of chronic insomnia and attendant depression very powerful
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and every time I travel I have the Narrator's litany of airport names stuck in my head
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