this much I will argue is text, the Narrator is wildly unreliable and projecting all over the place
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that's inherent to the style of the movie, even before any big reveals
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the opening titles are "Hey we're penetrating deep inside this guy's brain and never quite get out"
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every part of the movie breaks the 4th wall, including when we finally "emerge" from his long flashback
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"I still can't think of anything" "Ah, flashback humor"
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I mean, hence the awkward circumlocutions around never learning Narrator's actual name
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we never hear it bc Narrator is determined to never honestly look at himself as himself
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always only through some kind of warped mirror - Marla, Tyler, Project Mayhem
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so yeah who knows if the "account" of Marla he gives us is at all accurate or is just projection
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if you rewatch you'll notice bits where "psycho" Marla is actually trying to be a decent girlfriend
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like when she notices the horrible burn on his hand and starts to freak out abt his well being
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One thing about the film's unreality is I'm wondering if it and Matrix share a common reference point
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Was there a pre-1999 film that depicted the workplace as a green tinted prison?
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