NOKW - Fight Club

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Fight Club

Basic Plot:  Without giving away the twist ending, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt create a club that involves fighting then it evolves into something even crazier.  Oh, and Brad Pitt is Edward Norton's alternate personality or something.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that we never learn Edward Norton's character's real name and according to IMDB, he is credited as 'The Narrator'.  The fact that anyone would join Tyler Durden's fight club after seeing him beat himself up in a parking lot and then talk to an imaginary person.  The fact that I might join a fight club led by a guy who looks like Brad Pitt but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't join if the guy looked like Edward Norton (no homo).  The fact that Edward Norton doesn't figure out he is Tyler Durden way earlier than he does considering everyone around him knows him as Tyler.  The fact that shooting himself in the head shouldn't have changed anything because as long as Edward Norton is alive, so is Tyler Durden.  The fact that blowing up those buildings at the end of the movie might actually accomplish Project Mayhem's plan because it turns out that all credit card companies are headquartered in two cities in America and if he took out both those cities, then America's credit might actually reset.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that nothing about the final fight scene between Edward Norton, who is real, and Tyler Durden, who is imaginary, makes any damn sense.  First up, we see Edward defuse the bomb in the van, then he gets punched in the face by Tyler and falls out of the van.  And this is where it first starts making even less sense then usual.  Tyler resets the fuse on the bomb, climbs out of the van, and an epic fight ensues.  My problem with this is that we see Tyler fix the bomb, not Edward Norton.  Tyler is imaginary and therefore should not be able to fix, let alone touch the bomb.  And sure, maybe Edward Norton just saw Tyler fix the bomb, but it really was himself, but the problem there is that we are shown video surveillance of this scene and Edward is physically lying outside the van when this goes down.  So, how did the bomb get reset unless Tyler Durden was real all along which we know he is not.  I am not okay with that.

"So, does Edward Norton ever actually wear Tyler's wardrobe or does he just imagine it?"