DZ-111: Unreliable Narrators and FIGHT CLUB

Show Notes

In this episode, Stu and Mel (sans Chas!) take a deep dive into FIGHT CLUB and its use of the unreliable narrator. This is a bridging episode between our previous episode on VOICEOVER and our forthcoming episode on TALKING TO CAMERA as Fight Club does both.

We dissect the film’s disconnected sequence-driven structure and how the voiceover ’stitches’ the film together. And then we look at what makes ‘Jack’ an unreliable narrator and how his control over the storytelling impacts us.

Thanks to Chris Walker for his excellent editing this episode.

"Immediately he’s talking about going to these meeting and presenting himself as one thing while he’s actually another. So immediately the audience knows, okay, this guy’s unreliable. I can’t trust anything he says."

— Mel Killingsworth | DZ-111: Unreliable Narrators and FIGHT CLUB

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Chapters

00:00:01 – Cold Open
00:00:20 – Fight Club
00:24:57 – Unreliable Narrators
00:49:09 – Key Learnings & Wrap Up
00:54:07 – Many thanks to our Patrons!

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