cter) and Tyler are one in the same, almost on the level of the Trinity. However he goes
without a real name because he is supposed to represent how he could and is Any Man, anybody, and everybody. But after he, Any Man, has made
all these bad choices he has to run around and try to undo all the horror he has wrought. Any Man started Fight Club, which matured into Project
Mayhem, which then ultimately resulted in the collapse of the institution of their society. In many ways this movie is an extreme moral movie, with
the battle between good and evil within a person continually going on. Even though, in the end the bad guy dies, it is only the good guy's sense of
the bad guy that is killed. The bad guy never really existed to kill off. However you are left to believe that he, the good guy/bad guy, gets away
with blowing up the buildings. Of course the movie is really about the causes of violence and is in fact anti-violence, although it acknowledges
When the Any Man says, "Losing all hope was freedom," he is referring to the alienation from the world that he felt in his life, his disillusionment. He,
this Any Man, felt his life was so devoid of anything worthwhile that he distanced himself from the world. His alienation from his society lead to his
materialism, and his obsessions with decorating his apartment, making it complete. Which kept him from the freedom of living a fulfilling life, being
truly alive. Once his apartment is blown up and all of his possessions are lost, and he mourns greatly because his possessions were to him, his life,
and his proof that he exists. He begins to understand that he truly doesn't need his belongings through his transformation thanks to Tyler. He
doesn't need these things to be free to live his life the way he really wanted to.
He meets this woman, Marla, who has the same general outlook on life; she hates hers too. At first he displays a dislike f...