“Fight Club” foreshadowed the dark paths that anonymous individuals would be lead down
TWENTY YEARS ago, Hollywood started to reckon with the internet. “The Blair Witch Project” was the first major film to understand online marketing, stoking debates in chat rooms over whether its footage was real or fictional. That same year, “The Matrix” explored the possibilities of the internet in a narrative at once utopian and dystopian.
Although “Fight Club” makes no direct reference to the internet, it is easy to see why the film has resonated with its users. It is eventually revealed that The Narrator has split personality disorder and has created the persona of Durden to liberate himself from social constraints. As Durden explains: “I act like you want to act...I’m free in all the ways you are not.
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