Fight Club

"We have just lost cabin pressure." Summing up that sinking feeling in audiences everywhere, Jack's (or the Narrator, or Tyler, if you prefer) discovery in Fight Club that he has developed something akin to schizophrenia is a devastating blow that explains much of the surrealism that has taken place in the previous two hours. Lifting the twist almost verbatim from Chuck Palahniuk's terrific novel, Jack's revelation that he is Tyler Durden has extremely disturbing implications about the nature of our protagonist - and, by extension, ourselves. What Palahniuk's novel and David Fincher's film tap into is something twisted and depraved about the existential fatalism that pervaded a generation, and they lay it out eloquently in this contemporary Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.