百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析：[9]Fight Club 搏擊倶樂部

The nameless narrator(Edward Norton)is a traveling automobile company employee who suffers from insomnia. His doctor refuses to give him medication and advises him to visit a support group to witness more severe suffering. The narrator attends a support group for testicular cancer victims and, after fooling them into thinking that he is a fellow victim, finds an emotional release that relieves his insomnia. He becomes addicted to attending support groups and pretending to be a victim, but the presence of another impostor, Marla Singer(Helena Bonham Carter), disturbs him, so he negotiates with her to avoid their meeting at the same groups.

After a flight home from a business trip, the narrator finds his apartment destroyed by an explosion. He calls Tyler Durden(Brad Pitt), a soap salesman whom he befriended on the flight, and they meet at a bar. A conversation about consumerism leads to Tyler inviting the narrator to stay at his place; outside the bar he requests that the narrator hit him. The two engage in a fistfight, and the narrator subsequently moves into Tyler's dilapidated house. They have further fights outside the bar, and these attract a crowd of men. The fighting moves to the bar's basement where the men form a “fight club”.

Marla overdoses on pills and telephones the narrator for help; he ignores her, but Tyler answers the call and saves her. Tyler and Marla become sexually involved, and Tyler warns the narrator never to talk to Marla about him. More fight clubs form across the country, and under Tyler's leadership, they become the anti-materialist and anti-corporate organization called “Project Mayhem” The narrator complains to Tyler that he wants to be more involved in the organization, but Tyler suddenly disappears. When a member of Project Mayhem is killed by the police during a botched sabotage operation, the narrator tries to shut down the project, and follows evidence of Tyler's national travels to track him down. In one city, a Project member greets the narrator as Tyler Durden. The narrator calls Marla from his hotel room and discovers that Marla also believes him to be Tyler. He suddenly sees Tyler in his room, and Tyler explains that they are dissociated personalities in the same body Tyler controls the narrator's body when the narrator is asleep.

The narrator blacks out after the conversation. When he wakes, he discovers from his telephone log that Tyler made calls during his blackout. He uncovers Tyler's plans to erase debt by destroying buildings that contain credit card companies' records. The narrator tries to contact the police but finds that the officers are members of the Project. He attempts to disarm explosives in a building, but Tyler subdues him and moves to a safe building to watch the destruction. The narrator, held by Tyler at gunpoint, realizes that in sharing the same body with Tyler, he himself is actually holding the gun. He fires it into his mouth, shooting through the cheek without killing himself. Tyler collapses with an exit wound to the back of his head, and the narrator stops mentally projecting him. Afterward, Project Mayhem members bring a kidnapped Marla to him, believing him to be Tyler, and leave them alone. The explosives detonate, collapsing the buildings, and the narrator and Marla watch the scene, holding hands.

無(wú)名敘述者(愛德華·諾頓飾)是一個(gè)旅游汽車公司雇員，他患有失眠癥。他的醫(yī)生拒絕給他用藥，而是建議他參觀一個(gè)互助小組，去看一看更嚴(yán)重的痛苦。敘述者參加了一個(gè)睪丸癌的互助小組，他騙他們說(shuō)自己也是一個(gè)受害者，通過(guò)這種情感的釋放，來(lái)減輕他的失眠。他對(duì)出席互助小組并假裝是受害者上癮了，但是隨著另一個(gè)騙子瑪拉·辛格(海倫娜·伯翰·卡特飾)的出現(xiàn)，擾亂了這一切。所以他與她協(xié)商，以避免他們同時(shí)參加相同的小組。

一次出差回家后，敘述者發(fā)現(xiàn)他的公寓被炸毀了。他把他在飛機(jī)上認(rèn)識(shí)的肥皂推銷員泰勒·杜爾登(布拉德·皮特飾)叫出來(lái)在酒吧見面。因?yàn)橐欢侮P(guān)于消費(fèi)觀的談話，泰勒邀請(qǐng)敘述者過(guò)來(lái)與他一起住。從酒吧出來(lái)后，他讓敘述者打他。兩個(gè)人打了一架后，敘述者隨即搬進(jìn)了泰勒破舊的房子。之后數(shù)日他們?cè)诰瓢赏饫^續(xù)打，并吸引了一大群人。打斗挪到酒吧的地下室中。在這里，他們組成了一個(gè)搏擊俱樂部。

瑪拉服用了過(guò)量的藥丸，并打電話給敘述者尋求幫助。敘述者沒有管這個(gè)電話，但泰勒接了電話并救了她。泰勒與瑪拉發(fā)生了性關(guān)系。泰勒警告敘述者不要向瑪拉提起他。更多的搏擊俱樂部在全國(guó)各地成立。在泰勒的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下這些俱樂部成為反唯物主義與反合作組織，并被稱為“大混亂組織”。敘述者向泰勒抱怨說(shuō)，他想更多地參與到組織中，但泰勒忽然消失了。在一次糟糕的破壞行動(dòng)中，警方擊斃了一個(gè)“大混亂組織”的成員。敘述者試圖關(guān)閉該組織，并試圖通過(guò)泰勒全國(guó)范圍旅行中的各種證據(jù)來(lái)追蹤他。在一個(gè)城市中，一個(gè)組織成員迎接敘述者時(shí)稱他為泰勒·杜爾登。敘述者從他的酒店房間中打電話給瑪拉，并發(fā)現(xiàn)瑪拉也相信他就是泰勒。他忽然在他的房間中發(fā)現(xiàn)了泰勒，泰勒解釋說(shuō)他們是同一個(gè)身體中的兩個(gè)分裂的人格。泰勒在敘述者睡覺時(shí)會(huì)控制他的身體。

敘述者在談話后就失去意識(shí)了。當(dāng)他醒來(lái)時(shí)，他在自己的電話記錄上發(fā)現(xiàn)泰勒在他失去意識(shí)時(shí)打了一些電話。他揭露了泰勒的計(jì)劃，泰勒打算通過(guò)摧毀包含信用卡公司記錄的大樓來(lái)消除債務(wù)。敘述者試圖聯(lián)系警察，但發(fā)現(xiàn)他們都是組織成員。他試圖解除在一棟樓里的爆炸物，但泰勒控制了他，并轉(zhuǎn)移到了一棟安全的樓里去看著破壞的發(fā)生。在泰勒的槍口下，敘述者意識(shí)到因?yàn)樗c泰勒共用一個(gè)身體，實(shí)際上是他自己拿著槍。他把槍放到他的嘴里開槍，射穿了他的臉從而避免了殺死他自己。因?yàn)楹竽X上的傷口，泰勒崩潰了，敘述者從精神上阻止了他的控制。后來(lái)，“大混亂組織”成員將瑪拉綁架來(lái)給他，因?yàn)橄嘈潘翘├?，所以把他們單?dú)放在了一起。這時(shí)爆炸發(fā)生了，敘述者與瑪拉逃出了大樓，手牽著手，看著這一切。