Again, I refer to very crucial plot points of the film here that will really ruin it for anyone who has yet to see it. Skip down to the end or skip this message altogether if you plan on seeing the movie but have not done so yet. In a message dated 99-10-22 00:43:42 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << They explained how ed norton was fighting himself, but what about when norton and pitt were talking to each other in front of other people? Was ed norton talking to himself or was it all in his head? The ending seemed like a cop out to me. The last half hour was just weird...it almost seemed like a different movie. The only thing that made sense to me was that we were watching ed norton's character go crazy. He had obviously lost his mind by the end of the movie...Other than that, i was lost. that last scene didn't seem to fit in at all. >> This is one of the reasons I really want to see the film again . . . as far as I can remember, they did cover the bases as far as Norton conversing with Pitt. The scenes can be read a number of different ways, but if you think of the "steering wheel" scene in particular, the only comments that the guys in the backseat said was in reference to anytime Norton asked about Project Mayhem. They never responded to anything that Pitt's character said, or to the conversation at all. We can read this as A.) the conversation, in re: what Pitt was saying was entirely in Norton's head, so the only thing the guys in the back heard was Norton asking what Project Mayhem was, and them responding as though it were a test (flash-forward to when Norton goes from city-to-city and begins to piece together that he is Tyler Durden as a reference to this notion) or B.) the entire thing was imagined. I thought it similarly interesting in that the ending is left completely wide open to interpretation - had Norton reconciled himself with the fact that though he had destroyed the Pitt side of him, he was now powerless to stop the explosions? or, was Pitt's death symbolic not of Norton casting that side of him out, but rather reconciling the two, to create a more stable (but equally malevolent) union? In other words, was this supposedly the "good side" overcoming the "bad side", or had Norton just destroyed the ambivalence that the dichotomy of the two characters represented? <<Did anyone else notice all the sneaky things that were thrown into this movie such as: The "Seven Years in Tibet" sign? Brad Pitt's character from the movie "12 Monkeys" in the airport? The Pixies song!! >> Apparently, David Fincher also had marquees reading "The Wings of the Dove" and "Primal Fear" in the scene that we saw the Seven Years in Tibet sign, but the buses blocked them. And I remember seeing Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, but I didn't see him as the Twelve Monkeys character . . . did I miss something, or are we thinking of the same person. I also thought the Pixies song to be very fitting. It made me happy. (And it tied in to the confusion of the end sequence . . . the song was "where is my mind," after all). Lastly, did anybody notice the frames that popped up through the film, other than the obvious penis at the end? before they got to the sequence where the two talk about how Tyler Durden cuts slices of pornographic images into Disney films, they had slipped in about 3 or 4 images. I wasn't sure that I saw anything the first time, but the 2nd (or 3rd?) time they did it was i think where helena bonham carter's character was walking down an alley; we see an image of brad pitt flash, before his character has been introduced to us. star PS . . .speaking of being john malkovich, I highly recommend the www.beingjohnmalkovich.com site. Spike Jonze is a genius.
