STORY:

As the title credits play, we break free from the web of neurons and brain cells and emerge from a pore on the protagonist's sweat-stained skin: our Storyteller (Edward Norton), as he peers down the barrel of a weapon that has been stuck in his mouth. The weapon is held by a man named Tyler (Brad Pitt) who checks his watch, counting down to 'ground zero' preceding he inquires as to whether the storyteller has anything to say. Before the gun is taken out, the narrator mumbles through it and says more clearly that he can't think of anything. As Tyler watches out of the great ascent window to the dull city beneath them, the storyteller reviews exactly the way that he met Tyler prior to halting himself and carrying us to the start of the story.

We are told by the narrator that he hasn't slept in six months. His occupation as a voyaging item review expert for a vehicle organization doesn't help his sleep deprivation since he should travel frequently, encountering episodes of stream slack notwithstanding the ordinary pressure of his situation, respecting the 'minuscule existence' of single-serving cleanser and cleanser at each area. In the event that he can't rest, he rides the channels or peruses "Furni" (a satire of IKEA) lists buying the following piece of style to add to his loft; he's a self-broadcasted slave of industrialism. He seeks assistance from his doctor, but the doctor will only advise him to take an herbal supplement rather than medication and to attend a support group for testicular cancer to experience actual pain. The narrator meets Robert 'Bob' Paulson (Meat Loaf), a former bodybuilder and steroid user who suffers from extreme gynecomastia as a result of hormone treatment following the removal of his testicles. In support, Bob is willing to give the narrator a hug. The narrator finally finds peace and breaks down in tears as she is wedged between Bob's enormous breasts. The close to home delivery permits him to rest and he accordingly becomes dependent on help gatherings, delineating his week going to various gatherings and pretending ailment. However, the narrator's "system" is thrown out of whack by the appearance of a woman by the name of Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter. He has seen her at multiple meetings, including one about testicular cancer, and he recognizes her as a "tourist." Her lies make him so disturbed that he can't sleep anymore.

He confronts her after a single encounter. She quips that the groups are "cheaper than a movie and there's free coffee" and that she is doing exactly what he is doing. They agree to divide the week and exchange numbers rather than arguing. The narrator's insomnia continues despite his efforts. The narrator meets Tyler Durden on the return flight from one of his business trips. They have a casual conversation after Tyler gives them his unique perspective on the emergency procedure manuals in the plane. When Tyler isn't working nights as a projectionist and slipping porn between reels, he is a soap salesman. The storyteller shows up at the baggage carousel to find that his bag has been seized, in all likelihood because of a baffling vibration, before he taxis home. However, a faulty gas line that was thought to have been ignited by a spark from the refrigerator has been blamed for the collapse of a condominium on a fifteenth floor. Having no place to go, the storyteller finds Tyler's business card and hits him up. They meet in a parking lot behind a bar, and the narrator is given the ultimatum by Tyler to ask to live with him: that the storyteller hit Tyler as hard as possible. Despite being perplexed, the narrator agrees, and they fight with fists before sharing a few drinks. The experience is shockingly euphoric and the storyteller and Tyler return to Tyler's incapacitated house where obviously Tyler is crouching.

Over the following days, Tyler and the narrator engage in additional fights, drawing the attention of additional "tough guys." Tyler sets up a formal "fight club" in the basement of the bar where they had their first fight when he noticed that their small fighting group was getting bigger. The narrator and Tyler establish a set of rules, the first two of which say, "you do not talk about fight club," as membership quickly grows. Members constantly break the rules and invite their friends to join them. Tyler repeatedly demonstrates his insightful, if unconventional and immoral, perspectives on life.

The storyteller gets together with Marla by some coincidence, telling her that he hasn't gone to some other gatherings since he's joined another care group for men as it were. While he actually treats her with gentle hatred, obviously he thinks about her with interest. At the point when she goes too far with Xanax, she calls the storyteller who, burnt out on her meandering aimlessly, puts the telephone down. Later, to the narrator's dismay, he finds out that Tyler picked up the phone, followed the call to Marla's house, and brought Marla back to the house, where they had intense sex. The following morning in the kitchen, Marla finds the storyteller, who is bewildered to see her in his home. She is insulted by the astonishment of the Narrator, and she leaves in disgust. Tyler enters the kitchen after she leaves and cheerfully discloses that he and Marla had sex the night before. Additionally, he makes a grave promise to the narrator that he will never mention Tyler to Marla.

The narrator spends that evening with Tyler as he steals human fat from a liposuction clinic's dumpster. According to Tyler, human fat is the best fat for making the soap he sells. The narrator is shown by Tyler how to make tallow from the fat back in their kitchen. In the wake of making sense of a piece about the historical backdrop of soapmaking, Tyler establishes a wet kiss on the rear of the storyteller's hand and dumps unadulterated lye on the spot, causing a terrible synthetic consume. Tyler tells the narrator that the burn is a rite of passage because he has burned his own hand in a similar manner and refuses to let the narrator wash the lye off of his hand because water will worsen the burn. In addition, Tyler makes the narrator swear allegiance to him before using vinegar to put out the fire. Afterward, when they meet with a beauty care products sales rep at a retail chain, the storyteller comments that Tyler's cleanser sells at an exceptionally significant expense.

With the narrator, he holds Joon Kim, a college dropout, at gunpoint and threatens to kill him if he doesn't follow his vocation as a veterinarian. He permits Lou (Peter Iacangelo), the proprietor of the bar where their battle club is held, to thump him prior to hacking blood all over him and requesting to remain in the storm cellar. Sickened, Lou concurs. Tyler assigns a "homework assignment" to the club members: they will all provoke a total outsider and lose. The storyteller says it's a lot harder errand than anybody would naturally suspect. People are harassed by Bob in a downtown plaza; another part threatens a minister.

Marla leaves after a few days, and Tyler tells the narrator about his new hobby. Tyler has transformed the basement of the house into a laboratory where he creates explosives by combining soap and other ingredients with his expertise in soapmaking. The narrator and Tyler continue to run the fight club, but this time at a significantly different rate. The narrator confronts his boss (Zach Grenier) with information about substandard practice after receiving criticism at work. In order to keep his mouth shut, the narrator negotiates a work-from-home position with increased pay. The narrator severely beats himself when his boss disagrees and calls security, leading security to believe that the narrator's boss assaulted his employee when they arrive.

In the end, Tyler gives his recruits homework and preaches to them about how bad consumerism and relying on society and authority figures are. He proposes to return to the time where a man's worth relied upon the perspiration on his back and where he just utilized what he really wanted. This way of thinking advances into what Tyler calls 'Venture Anarchy,' and the battling in storm cellars transforms into devilish destructive incidents and annihilation. Their activities don't be ignored, however Tyler figures out how to show the lead specialist that the very individuals he's hunting are those that they rely upon; servers, transport drivers, sewer designers, and then some. The investigation is halted after they threaten the police chief with castration. The haggard house where Tyler and the storyteller reside transforms into Disorder focal, where each newcomer is put through a thorough time of inception and preparing and where the most recent plans are incubated. The narrator's feelings of distance from Tyler and jealousy build up as Project Mayhem expands, leading him to assault and disfigure one recruit—Jared Leto—for "wanting to destroy something beautiful." Tyler drives the narrator and two members in a large Lincoln Town Car as they leave this fight club meeting. Tyler makes fun of the narrator in the rain, giving the impression that he hasn't even begun to live his life to its fullest potential. Tyler scolds the narrator for being weak and pathetic when he lets the car drift into oncoming traffic. After that, Tyler admits that he destroyed the apartment of the narrator. The narrator gives in at last, Tyler lets the car drift, and they hit another car head-on. They rise out of the disaster area with Tyler shouting that the storyteller has another everyday routine in light of his experiencing through a brush with death.

At the point when Tyler vanishes for some time, the storyteller is left at home with a steadily expanding band of Disorder individuals who sit in front of the TV and snicker at their exposed destructive incidents. At the point when the storyteller requests to find out about their wickedness, Sway tells him "The first rule of Venture Anarchy is you don't seek clarification on some pressing issues."

After Bob dies in an unsuccessful sabotage attempt, the narrator tries to break the group up before things get out of hand. He looks for Tyler and finds a list of phone numbers Tyler used recently. The storyteller trails the rundown all around the nation, finding that battle clubs have grown all over.

The narrator is asked if he knows him when the bartender addresses him as "sir" at one particular establishment. After being assured that he will not be tested, the bartender reveals to the narrator that he is Tyler Durden. In shock, the storyteller gets back to his lodging and calls up Marla, inquiring as to whether they've at any point engaged in sexual relations. Marla admits their relationship and refers to him as "Tyler Durden" despite her irritation. Marla hangs up and Tyler unexpectedly shows up in the room and faces the storyteller, letting him know he broke his guarantee to not talk about Tyler to Marla. After a few minutes of conversation, it becomes clear that they are one person. The narrator suffers from insomnia; he can't rest thus, at whatever point he assumes he is (or at irregular pieces of a day), Tyler's persona dominates. The narrator faints as a result of the epiphany. He wakes up to another phone list with calls from all over the country beside him.

He gets back to his home to find it totally void however one release board yields a presentation of envelopes enumerating specific structures inside the monetary locale. He discovers that Project Mayhem members have penetrated each one, and Tyler intends to destroy them, "wiping the slate clean" by erasing credit card company records. The narrator reports himself to the local police after grabbing all of the information in a panic. In any case, subsequent to telling the assessor all that he knows and being left with two officials, the storyteller finds that the officials are Disorder individuals and they let him know that they were told by him to 'take the chunks' of any individual who impeded Undertaking Mayhem...even him. By stealing one of the officers' pistols, the narrator is able to get away and runs to one of the buildings that are going to be demolished. He tries to detonate the bomb when he comes across an unidentified nitroglycerin-filled van in the parking garage. The narrator successfully detonates the bomb, despite Tyler's appearance and threats. He and Tyler participate in a savage battle which shows up strangely on the observation cameras since the storyteller is just battling himself. The narrator "brings himself" to a different building where they can safely observe the devastation after the Tyler personality prevails and reactivates the bomb.

With the gun still in his mouth, the narrator mumbles again in the opening scene and tells Tyler, "I still can't think of anything." "Ah, flashback humor," Tyler says with a grin. The narrator begs Tyler not to finish the project, but Tyler insists. He claims that he is rescuing humanity from the tyranny of consumerism and unnecessary luxuries, and that there will be no casualties; individuals who work in the structures are all Commotion individuals, totally mindful of the arrangement. The narrator comes to the conclusion that whatever Tyler does, he can do. He realizes that Tyler actually has the gun in his hand when he sees Tyler holding it. He holds it up to Tyler's chin and tells him to listen. After declaring that his eyes are open, he puts the gun in his mouth and fires it. Tyler is "killed" with a gaping wound to the back of his head after the bullet exits the side of his jaw. As the storyteller recuperates, individuals from Task Pandemonium show up with snacks and Marla close by (Tyler had recently taught her to be brought to them).

The Mayhem members leave Marla alone with Tyler to go get some medical supplies after seeing his wounds. Tyler' remains with Marla and advises her that everything will be fine as the primary explosion lights the structure before them. "Tyler" takes Marla's hand and tells her, "You met me at a very strange time in my life," as the other block members soon follow suit. They watch as the buildings fall as the explosives go off.