A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
This movie contains 66 potentially triggering events.
Two characters talk about one of their parents abandoning them as a young child. So the idea is mentioned, but it isn't shown as it happens or very significant to the plot.
No but towards the end of the film the main character is held down by his legs and has his trousers forcibly removed. This isn’t a sexual thing but it did trigger me.
no but near the end (in the police interrogation room) the main character is held down and has his pants pulled off (they are trying to castrate him, NOT rape him.)
A chemical burn occurs and the character in question writhes in pain for quite a while. There are visible scars on a characters' hands from the same chemical burn.
While the protagonist washes his teeth, he reaches into his mouth and pulls out a tooth that was already falling off. Also, the blond guy looses several teeth when the protagonist punches him repeatedly in the head during a fight.
(Spoilers for someone's death not a main character) at the scene where robert paulson is brought in after being shot in the head someone takes his mask off his head and you can see his literal brains spilling out of his head
It may be brief, but it's still extremely graphic and should be skipped if you have emetophobia. It's when Brad Pitt is shaking his bloody face all over the owner of the club. When he is doing this, and yelling "You don't know where I've been!" Skip forward until the owner and his goons leave the basement.
No, but the acts of terrorism committed by Project Mayhem and the scenes of high-rise buildings crumbling in a similar manner to the WTC may be triggering for people affected by this
the beginning of the film revolves around a club dedicated to survivors of testicular cancer. the people there are portrayed in a caricature-ish manner.
At the end of the movie it is revealed that a character has been dissociating throughout the whole film and another character is in fact his alternate personality.
Though many parts are true to how many systems experience DID the main ick I have is the fact that a person with DID/OSDD is violent since it’s a trope that harms real life systems and adds to stigma that we are somehow dangerous or abusive for existing when we are statistically way more likely to be the victims of abuse/violence/hate crimes and DID/OSDD is typically a subconscious response to repeated trauma.
near the end of the movie the narrator has to squeeze by several people in the house, but its not specifically claustrophobic. just very packed and messy
The narrator obviously narrates the whole movie, but one part that almost creeped me put was when in the end of the movie Tyler specifically mentioned flashback from the beginning of the movie, calling it a flashback.
I think this question is somewhat up to debate. THIS CONTAINS A MAJOR SPOILER FOR THE END OF THE FILM:
This movie engages (arguably) in the trope of a character with a severe mental illness being violent and unpredictable, specifically dissociative identity disorder. D.I.D. is used in more of a metaphorical fashion rather than as a response to trauma from a character, if you have D.I.D. you may find this film upsetting for its depiction.
(spoilers) a male character with several female characteristics dies, but the film does not make references/jokes about being transgender or intersex.
however, a transgender or intersex person may feel uncomfortable with his portrayal.
not really but theres a scene where tyler calls the narrator pathetic and another one where he forces him to stop using his coping skills (the hand burning scene)