Movie Suggestions??? (About "Fight Club"?)?

Question

I want to find films that can be compared to "Fight Club", possibly related to split personality or some sort of emotional breakdown causing a person to rebell against the society or even commit sucide? It will be better if the films use similar filming techniques, like the narrating method and end with a twist. Any possible solutions? Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

I believe that there is one best answer to this: A Beautiful Mind. In Fight Club, Jack fights with his alter ego, Tyler. In A Beautiful Mind, John Nash fights with his college roommate.

In both movies, we watch them in a fight. Later, in A Beautiful Mind, his wife and the audience realize with a resounding crash of emotion that the roommate never had existed.

This is very difficult for his wife to cope with, as she had listened for years to everything John had to say about the roommate, and she felt as if she actually knew the college roommate.

John Nash's roommate was the most important person in his life.

The same visual device is used in both movies. We actually see two people in a fight.

The beauty is that John Nash is a real person. He is still alive now. He approved the movie as being accurate before it was distributed. He is a life-long paranoid schizophrenic.

What you see in both movies is the schizophrenic splitting of a person's personality: a full-blown delusion, with an imaginary friend.

Late in life, John Nash won a Nobel Prize for Game Theory in mathematics, work which he had done while he was still young.

Despite his illness, he did something that showed he is a first-rate thinker (that he has a beautiful mind).

In both movies, we see two people fight. Then there is a flashback where we see just one person seeming to fight himself.

In his own way, John Nash did rebell against society. He certainly was conscious of being set apart from ordinary society. Everyone else was not as smart as him.

He developed a specific delusion that he was doing undercover work for the government. And so, in this odd way, he tried to fit in.

Jack and Tyler develop Project Mayhem, their own odd way of fitting in.

There is no actual narrator in Beautiful Mind like there is in Fight Club. Still, it is all presented as John Nash saw it, mentally AND visually, which is the equivalent.

As far as suicide, remember that in Fight Club we don't really know whether Jack is going to die or not. And he is too casual about it, defying ordinary reality. John Nash is careless of ordinary reality, too.

In a dream, the dreamer plays all of the roles. (Obviously, this is true, since one is actually alone in one's sleep.) That's the closest most people ever get to this extreme kind of splitting.

In a way, A Beautiful Mind is a copy of a copy (Fight Club).

Both movies start with a nervous breakdown. Insomnia is often the first sign of a schizophrenic collapse...

See FightClubMovieUpdate
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Answer 2

BEST BET -- Identity w/ John Cusack (has some narration)

OTHERS --
Hide and Seek w/ Robert DeNiro
Secret Window w/ Johnny Depp
Bewitched (1945) w/ Edmund Gwenn and Phyllis Thaxter
Psycho w/ Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
Color of Night w/ Bruce Willis

Answer 3

There was a good one with John Lithgow called "Raising Cain".

There was a really strange one years ago with Jeremy Irons. It was about emotionally unstable twins. I'll see if I can get more details. Looked it up . . . it's called "Dead Ringers" A Very Strange Movie.

Pyscho

Answer 4

Melinda and Melinda - it's not really a split personality but it tells the story of a girl two different ways and she acts differently in each story

Answer 5

Identity - with John Cusack

Answer 6

Mr. Brooks, with Kevin Costner and Dane Cook. They tell you from the beginning it's all in his head, but the plot twists along the way are awesome.

Answer 7

there is one with John Cusak at a hotel....split personality and twisted. do a search on John Cusak movies...

Court got it right!! nice one