"With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything's far away. Everything's a copy, of a copy, of a copy." As someone with insomnia that line always stuck with me. It's weirdly accurate.
0:08 how tf did they portray the visual perception of the insomniac so accurately in this shot? It's subtle, but those true insomniacs who have been severely sleep deprived will resonate with that shot. The dissociation, the weird fucked up depth perception, the flat and fake appearance of one's surroundings, like being in a constant dream-like state mixed with a drunken stupor. This scene, and this whole movie, is a masterpiece.
In some crazy way I've flipped I look forward to the isolation and the night of no sleep I've started to dread the day and the people that come with it
Phenomenally put. This whole movie is almost surrealist. I feel like the droning ambient score in the photocopy scene is also reminiscent of sleep deprivation
@@wifegrant your comment brought me back here, and I just feel it's important to state that my insomnia has greatly improved since I wrote this post, and I'd suffered for years with it. So don't give up. To anyone reading this, your insomnia can go into remission as mine has. I'm still not a great sleeper and I'm prone to disregulated routines, but if you really work at it you can get much better. When my mental health gets bad I end up going without sleep for months, but as long as I take care of myself I can achieve _some_ semblance of normalcy with my sleep.
This is me right now. I'm working nights in a steel factory, often sleeping 3 or 4 hours a day. Last night I was almost falling asleep on my feet, dying to go to bed. I finished at 6am. It's now 830am and I am here. This is awful.
@@TheRealMCMXCIII hey! Thanks for your kind words! As of 3 weeks ago I came off night shift, and am back to living a happy, regular life. I hope you are doing great, and thanks for being a kind person!
Watch the scene closely he says "can you please just give me something" and the doctor looks at his hand shaking and he stops immediately the doctor obviously thought he was a tweaker.
I now have insomnia. This is totally true. You lose all sense of reality. You're not asleep, but you're never really awake. You slip in and out of full consciousness, the living husk that wasn't there mentally, yet couldn't find the relief of the unconscious. Edit: The night I wrote this, I got my first real night of sleep in...as long as I can remember
Hey Brother I feel you there but similar to this movie finding an actual fight club (formal Martial Arts training) does actually help a lot with this kind of stuff
It is a god damn impossibility for me to forge personal intimate relationships....so I buy STUFF. That's what I do. And I'm about to drop $770 for a TRD Gauge cluster for my JDM SW20 MR2 Turbo. I CAN'T GO OUT WITH WOMEN BECAUSE I INHERENTLY COME OFF AS A GOD DAMN CREEP, SO I BUY FUCKING "THINGS" TO OCCUPY MYSELF. Buying shit, because you can't have a relationship...that's what gets me. That's consumerism culture I guess for those of us, purported incels in society.
i've been dealing with insomnia for the past 2-3 months or so,never had it happen to me before. It's so heart breaking to know you're bound to wake up in the middle of the night or early in the morning and stay there for the next 3-5 hours. At least it reminds me of my favourite movie of all time
@@joaopaulojp1426 It's gotten better bro. I didn't use any pills or medical assistance,but my sleep has facilitated. The only problem that remains is that sometimes i wake up after 4-5 hours of sleep and find it really difficult to resleep. Falling asleep at night is not much of a problem for me though. I hope it gets better for you,it's something that derives from one's psychological situation, I reckon. As time passes by,you will cope with it dont worry. If it goes on though,there are several medical ways to get rid of it(valerian root for example)
@@joaopaulojp1426 this is exactly what happened to me. No matter how tired i was. One thing that helped me, was to get out of bed once i woke up. Get up for some minutes ,try to have a little stretch or walk. It will then be easier to fall asleep once you get to bed again
I finally was able to sleep after 3 days of having not even a second of sleep. This clip helped me cope but don't worry folks you WILL sleep eventually
you guys dosnt undrestand insomnia, not because u did not sleep one night thats mean u got insomnia or maybe u slept the day, how u want to sleep at night!! its more than that its about people who cant sleep for days... not just 2 or 1 night!
@@trabelsi5428 If I can't sleep one night, I'll have so strong headache, my brain doesn't work... I cannot imagine how they feel, if they didn't sleep for DAYS 🤕🤯
I love the part about the glass dishes - the little bubbles are proof they were "crafted by the honest, simple, hardworking indigenous peoples of, wherever."
i think its that plus tyler kind of slipping into the narrator's consciousness. when he meets tyler finally, they stop putting in those little flashes of him.
It is both that reason and the fact that Tyler only exists in the narrator’s mind. He flashes 3 times before the narrator meets him indicating that he exists only in the narrator’s point of view.
It’s also a pretty good representation of how when you’re sleep-deprived objects & figures will often flicker in your peripheral vision. Not quite hallucination, more like a quick “wait, what was that?”.
I would take a chemical sleep over insomnia any fucking minute. The time when I couldn't have a proper sleep for 9 days straight was absolutely horrible, and once I've got my hands on a drug prescription, I've finally fallen asleep. I didn't feel reinvigorated with life afterwards, rather hollow, in fact, but reality came back to me and it was as cathartic as things could get back then
In the last 3 weeks, I’ve experienced REM sleep for roughly 14 hours. People start to seem almost distorted, giving them an “uncanny valley” effect. Lighting and shadows start to become flat, like prop lighting from a gritty 80s movie. Manic episodes suck, but it’s really fun when you’re peaking on your upswing and conquering the world.
This writing is so brilliant it makes me grin ear to ear. Every. Single. Time. And p.s. I doubt many people will get the Horchow reference, but that is shere gold.
"You need healthy natural sleep" Uh doc, what part of insomnia do you not understand and can you even call sleep caused by narcolepsy to be healthy or natural.
That clip of the doctor is only too real. In my experience they all don't care and enjoy seeing you suffer as long as it's not life threatening they enjoy contributing and seeing your face when they tell you "no"
I can help you. Free yourself from your consumerist prison by giving me all of your things. I don't mind the burden, hell you don't even have to pay me. I'm kind of like Jesus in that way.
I struggled woth insomnia when i was 17 and 18, literally the worst time for that shit I bumped into people and droped things without even noticing and i slurred when speaking, if i could come up with a proper sentence Im so glad that time's over.all u really need is to say fuck it and do some thing that makes u tired and sleep for 10 hours each day until it goes away. It worked for me
The ending was awesome when the doctor told him he needed a healthy natural sleep. What doctor says that today? They would just write a prescription of at least 5 drugs so that they can make money!
The Narrator having his real doctor fluff him off was malpractice-tier. Even in the 1990s they had sleep specialists who could’ve helped with his insomnia.
This is so true if u ever have insomnia and u see this movie 🎥 movie 🍿 and this scene it will really hit home. With insomnia nothings really real. Everything’s far away everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy! Come on man I’m in pain! “ no u need healthy natural sleep, chew some valerian root and get some exercise.
The "Fight Club" movie, directed by David Fincher and released in 1999, features a memorable scene that deals with insomnia. The film is based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name and stars Edward Norton as the narrator and Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden. The scene you're referring to is one of the early moments in the film where the narrator's insomnia is depicted. In this scene, the narrator, whose name is never revealed in the movie, is portrayed as an insomniac living a mundane and unfulfilling life. He's exhausted, suffering from chronic insomnia, and trying various methods to cure it. He visits support groups for various ailments to help him sleep, but he remains unable to find any relief. The visual and auditory elements in this scene are crucial in conveying the character's state of mind. The camera work and editing create a sense of disorientation and restlessness, mirroring the protagonist's mental state. The sound design also emphasizes his insomnia, with an unsettling score and ambient noises that add to the discomfort. Edward Norton's performance is noteworthy in this scene, as he effectively conveys the character's desperation and frustration. His monologue about the emptiness of consumer culture and his longing for meaning in life sets the tone for the film's exploration of existential themes. As the film progresses, the protagonist's insomnia and his encounters with Tyler Durden lead him down a darker and more chaotic path, ultimately culminating in the creation of the underground fight club, which becomes a symbol of rebellion against modern society. The insomnia scene in "Fight Club" is a pivotal moment that sets the stage for the film's exploration of masculinity, consumerism, and existential crisis. It's a haunting and visually striking scene that leaves a lasting impression on viewers.
Im dealing with the same situation as him I haven’t been able to sleep for six months straight I quit the gym because I couldn’t sleep I recently started again and I still can’t sleep ive tried every melatonin gummies and every other thing and most ive gotten is about 4 hours of sleep.
They only thing unrealistic about this scene is how honest that doctor was. You usually will get prescribed at least something when you go to the doctors.
Something I noticed is that at 1:46, when he's talking about waking up in strange places, the doctor dismisses this by saying "You need to lighten up". Thinking a bit about it, it's a bit of a strange response to someone having spots in their memory (especially when that sentence alone could have warranted further examination). Then I realized that the narrator is looking straight at the camera while saying this - he's not looking at the doctor until 1:55, which makes me wonder something. The narrator doesn't look off in other directions when talking to people, he's always looked straight at people when they talk, but Tyler has a tendency to look somewhere else when talking. Mentioning that he has narcolepsy could give Tyler away - if the narrator got medication for himself then he could suppress Tyler without him even knowing he was there. Because of this, I believe that the narrator is NOT saying this line to the doctor, but that Tyler gains control for a second to say another line to make the narrator's issue seem less intense - then gives back control in that split second.
I like the bit where he goes through his flat showing the names of the products therein. I think that reality is like that, as I think Mach and Buddhism said. We are presented with our sensations and we extract and isolate "things" from within that continuous flow which we then name. The artisanal glasses with tiny bubbles, and the copy of a copy of a copy, is based upon Jean Baudrillard's "For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign." I had read the book shortly before I saw the film and believed back then that I would soon reach enlightenment!
People were so bored in the 90s with stable jobs and disposable income that they had to beat the shit out of each other to feel something. All we want now are stable jobs and disposable income lol
TL;DR "The narrator" dubbed "Jack" by fans played by Edward Norton, whom the perspective of the movie was filmed from was Tyler Durden's alter ego. Tyler creates Jack when he was 6 years old to deal with the loss of his father. Jack was the sound of reason to a totally lost boy and eventually a man (Tyler). Jack had the personality "it will all payoff shortly". Tyler was someone who was fed up with life and eventually decided to take drastic measures and take back control. Tyler thought throughout most of his life that being Jack would make him happy and believed Jack would have a happy ending.
I'm dealing with insomnia all of a sudden, kind of in the middle of a breakdown lol I sleep three or two hours a night, cannot bring myself to sleep I just pass out and then have to be awake for work lol I'm not even groggy the next day like in Fight Club, I have to be 100% focused for work, so I just kind of nod off for split seconds every few hours lol
I need furniture for my new place but I can't help but remember this scene as I search online, including Ikea, for ideas 💡 that "define me as a person".
everytime i come back here. there is a deep cycle going on in my life. aswell as change. shifting and unshifting. human beings are so flawless , priceless, unique, their limited, primal minds cant even comprehend the amount of detail, & precision that goes into withholding their existence, & the order of reality. shiny object syndrome, and monkey mind thinking and feeling, they cant open their minds beyond the binary, the dual. but the yin yang is one circle, you cant have wholeness/harmony without light & darkness, yet (to no fault of their own) they seek to make everything "light" not realizing if they let go of that effort they would realize a higher light. this is just the flow/channeling of the infinite. yes nothing is in your control, yes everything is in your control, both those statements can be true at the same time, tho they defy logic. you must be open to accepting that their are higher intelligences then logic/thought, but they must be felt. You are attention /or energy. concentrated into a form(body) yet their is the formless (water) which has no form, meaning it can change and become anything. it is not bound by anything. it simply adjusts itself effortlessly into the needs of the present moment. your mind is like water , or it can be rigid, if you are not open to change, to flow.
This scene has been helping me cope for that last few days. Night shift insomnia is so painful. The only way i can force myself to sleep is to get drunk, but i know it's very short term and i shouldn't do it. I'm so scared, i can't figure out how I'll get back to normal. What if I'm always this way??
I know its easier said than done, but can't you quit your job and find one in the daytime? Do some job hunting? Your health comes first friend,always. If something happens to your coworker for exemple, The Man will just replace them.
@@lifting_weab oh shoot, sorry for the loss mate, but its great that you identified the cause for it. Sleeping is one of those things I take for granted, but its important for us mammals I guess, be well!
I'm starting to lose sleep and I haven't been able to sleep well and I'm afraid I have insomnia, I only take naps and even then I can only nap when I'm exhausted which is after hours and hours and hours of not sleeping, and even then I'm tired after taking a nap for an hour or two, idk if I'm overreacting
It's HELL. I nearly lost it at the doctors today when he started getting difficult re sleeping tablets. They give them to women easily enough but not guys. I said "do you want me to go back to half a litre of spirits a night", and nearly said f*****g spirits. "No need to raise your voice" . Aye there bloody well IS. Cos i got something prescribed.
@@JohnSmith-sd4mn a medical doctor is someone who PRACTICES MEDICINE. Refusing to practice medicine is MEDICAL MALPRACTICE. Adderall and Xanax are drugs (medication) that are typically prescribed for the reasons you yourself mentioned. I have no clue what you think a doctor is or what they do, but you have thoroughly owned yourself.
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"With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything's far away. Everything's a copy, of a copy, of a copy."
As someone with insomnia that line always stuck with me. It's weirdly accurate.
Do u see the Brad Pitt figure yet?
go work outside in Texas heat for an hour or 2. you'll sleep like grandpa simpson.
@@TWOCRUNK4U I sleep worse when I work outside in heat
@@basedsigmalifter6087 well shit was hoping that would help. Good luck with the sleep tho
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Funny
The narrator’s home is small but have everything.
Tyler’s home is big but has nothing
And his fridge has nothing in it. Zero substance to what he owns when he thinks he has everything.
I wouldn't say that a flat with 160 square meter is small😂
Everything except a fridge full of condiments and no food
@@upgradedfirenation1465 he's airbnb-ing
Damn never noticed that detail
0:08 how tf did they portray the visual perception of the insomniac so accurately in this shot? It's subtle, but those true insomniacs who have been severely sleep deprived will resonate with that shot. The dissociation, the weird fucked up depth perception, the flat and fake appearance of one's surroundings, like being in a constant dream-like state mixed with a drunken stupor. This scene, and this whole movie, is a masterpiece.
I lost the ability to sleep normally since my early teenage years, this scene depicted exactly how I feel when I can’t sleep
In some crazy way I've flipped I look forward to the isolation and the night of no sleep I've started to dread the day and the people that come with it
Phenomenally put. This whole movie is almost surrealist. I feel like the droning ambient score in the photocopy scene is also reminiscent of sleep deprivation
i hate that feeling that everything is too far away or in my face at the same time
@@wifegrant your comment brought me back here, and I just feel it's important to state that my insomnia has greatly improved since I wrote this post, and I'd suffered for years with it.
So don't give up. To anyone reading this, your insomnia can go into remission as mine has. I'm still not a great sleeper and I'm prone to disregulated routines, but if you really work at it you can get much better. When my mental health gets bad I end up going without sleep for months, but as long as I take care of myself I can achieve _some_ semblance of normalcy with my sleep.
The worst feeling is that you are dead tired but you cannot sleep.
This is me right now. I'm working nights in a steel factory, often sleeping 3 or 4 hours a day. Last night I was almost falling asleep on my feet, dying to go to bed. I finished at 6am. It's now 830am and I am here. This is awful.
I work 10 hours at Amazon sometimes just sleeping 5 hours
@@yassyt1790 Its enough
@@tonygriffin3464 thats rough, im sorry.
@@TheRealMCMXCIII hey! Thanks for your kind words! As of 3 weeks ago I came off night shift, and am back to living a happy, regular life. I hope you are doing great, and thanks for being a kind person!
My life minus the ability to buy things
Me too exactly!
Or go to the hospital
You ever get any furniture? Just thought I'd follow up
Same here...
High five
That doctor totally downplayed how miserable insomnia truly is
"You need to lighten up" Wow thanks genius, why didn't I think of that?
@@simonandsimbagaming I fucking hate that saying “lighten up.”
Bitch, how?
That doctor really just went "I missed the part where that's my problem."
The doctor is just being a realist. The guy suffers from non fullfilment. But yeah he is kinda patronizing i guess.
Watch the scene closely he says "can you please just give me something" and the doctor looks at his hand shaking and he stops immediately the doctor obviously thought he was a tweaker.
His voice is so beautiful, I could hear him all day, I love Edward Norton so much, he’s the prettiest man on the whole universe ❤
I now have insomnia. This is totally true. You lose all sense of reality. You're not asleep, but you're never really awake. You slip in and out of full consciousness, the living husk that wasn't there mentally, yet couldn't find the relief of the unconscious.
Edit: The night I wrote this, I got my first real night of sleep in...as long as I can remember
That’s golden considering the theme and events in this movie
Have you tried weed? This stuff was a miracle cure for me. I used to go several nights without sleeping all to get maybe 3 hours in.
@@anonymousmobster2444 amen brother
Hey Brother I feel you there but similar to this movie finding an actual fight club (formal Martial Arts training) does actually help a lot with this kind of stuff
@@anonymousmobster2444 Beat me to it nothing like it
I want to hug him so bad. I know this is supposed to be funny but it's so heart breaking and soul destroying
It is a god damn impossibility for me to forge personal intimate relationships....so I buy STUFF. That's what I do. And I'm about to drop $770 for a TRD Gauge cluster for my JDM SW20 MR2 Turbo. I CAN'T GO OUT WITH WOMEN BECAUSE I INHERENTLY COME OFF AS A GOD DAMN CREEP, SO I BUY FUCKING "THINGS" TO OCCUPY MYSELF.
Buying shit, because you can't have a relationship...that's what gets me. That's consumerism culture I guess for those of us, purported incels in society.
He has Bob to hug him, why do you wanna stand between them
@@gundabalf looooool!!!
@@gundabalf Not anymore
@@psychwardpussyeater hahaha right in the head
i've been dealing with insomnia for the past 2-3 months or so,never had it happen to me before. It's so heart breaking to know you're bound to wake up in the middle of the night or early in the morning and stay there for the next 3-5 hours. At least it reminds me of my favourite movie of all time
Yes, me too man. I'm about a week like that. Do you get better? If yes, what you did?
@@joaopaulojp1426 It's gotten better bro. I didn't use any pills or medical assistance,but my sleep has facilitated. The only problem that remains is that sometimes i wake up after 4-5 hours of sleep and find it really difficult to resleep. Falling asleep at night is not much of a problem for me though. I hope it gets better for you,it's something that derives from one's psychological situation, I reckon. As time passes by,you will cope with it dont worry. If it goes on though,there are several medical ways to get rid of it(valerian root for example)
@@pant1371 im exactly like that, i have no problems falling asleep but i wake up after 4 hours of sleep
@@joaopaulojp1426 this is exactly what happened to me. No matter how tired i was. One thing that helped me, was to get out of bed once i woke up. Get up for some minutes ,try to have a little stretch or walk. It will then be easier to fall asleep once you get to bed again
I have it too. I once read that centuries ago, people actually lived by two sleep cycles, working quite literally day and night.
I finally was able to sleep after 3 days of having not even a second of sleep. This clip helped me cope but don't worry folks you WILL sleep eventually
Mine improved after about a month. Trazadone helps as well as cannabis.
Now are you fine ???
thank you bruh I appreciate it
0:12 Tyler :)
"I get insomnia sometimes too! I had a night last week when I couldn't sleep." - People That Don't Understand Insomnia Any Time You Mention It
Chris Walker mate once a week it happens to me, just can’t sleep and unfortunately last night was that night lol
you guys dosnt undrestand insomnia, not because u did not sleep one night thats mean u got insomnia or maybe u slept the day, how u want to sleep at night!!
its more than that its about people who cant sleep for days... not just 2 or 1 night!
Insomnia could go on for weeks
hippiecheezburger Weeks? I wish it only went on for weeks I have been having it for years and I mean years.
@@trabelsi5428 If I can't sleep one night, I'll have so strong headache, my brain doesn't work...
I cannot imagine how they feel, if they didn't sleep for DAYS 🤕🤯
How many people watching this cause of insomnia
ME
Loui Eriksson yeh unfortunately
Its 8am. Ive had 4 hours in the past 3 days :/
Me
Have you ever wanted to lift the bed and SLAM it down on the floor ten times??
1:47 subtle reference to Tyler's existence
Yeah, that proves how Tyler was already taking over him.
0:12 The not so subtle reference to Tyler's existence
"I wake up in strange places having no idea how i got there"
Well
“I flip through catalogs and wonder what kind of dining set defines me as a person?”
I love the part about the glass dishes - the little bubbles are proof they were "crafted by the honest, simple, hardworking indigenous peoples of, wherever."
The little flicker of Tyler at 0:12 is such an awesome effect that I’ve only seen in Sunshine (2007) - absolutely amazing effect
This is an extremely accurate of depiction of insomnia.
As a highly insomniac person, I cannot help but say this entire scene depicts my reality.
0:12 I guess they put Tyler there as a reference to how he puts a random single frame in the movies in a cinema
i think its that plus tyler kind of slipping into the narrator's consciousness. when he meets tyler finally, they stop putting in those little flashes of him.
It is both that reason and the fact that Tyler only exists in the narrator’s mind.
He flashes 3 times before the narrator meets him indicating that he exists only in the narrator’s point of view.
It’s also a pretty good representation of how when you’re sleep-deprived objects & figures will often flicker in your peripheral vision. Not quite hallucination, more like a quick “wait, what was that?”.
All of this because one doctor wouldn't give the narrator some sleeping pills.
Now days they’d give him OxyContin or some other synthetic heroin.
@@mijreed lol I was about to say this was before they started getting you hopped up on opioids for everything.
Seriously what a Fucking asshole.
Not even Ambien? At least for a couple of weeks? As an insomniac this angered me lol
I would take a chemical sleep over insomnia any fucking minute. The time when I couldn't have a proper sleep for 9 days straight was absolutely horrible, and once I've got my hands on a drug prescription, I've finally fallen asleep. I didn't feel reinvigorated with life afterwards, rather hollow, in fact, but reality came back to me and it was as cathartic as things could get back then
@@TheNotoriousFonzy What do you expect a medical doctor to do, practice medicine?
In the last 3 weeks, I’ve experienced REM sleep for roughly 14 hours. People start to seem almost distorted, giving them an “uncanny valley” effect. Lighting and shadows start to become flat, like prop lighting from a gritty 80s movie. Manic episodes suck, but it’s really fun when you’re peaking on your upswing and conquering the world.
Mock thee give away state secrets -DIRECTOR OF MI6 You are now a suspect in a breach and are under a federal investigation
This writing is so brilliant it makes me grin ear to ear. Every. Single. Time. And p.s. I doubt many people will get the Horchow reference, but that is shere gold.
ABH I didn’t. Never heard of it. lol
"You need healthy natural sleep"
Uh doc, what part of insomnia do you not understand and can you even call sleep caused by narcolepsy to be healthy or natural.
hahahahah great comment Brady
If I'm correct, there are REM suppressant drugs that allow narcoleptics to get deep sleep.
That clip of the doctor is only too real. In my experience they all don't care and enjoy seeing you suffer as long as it's not life threatening they enjoy contributing and seeing your face when they tell you "no"
@@shakespearesmilkshakeactually if you notice here, the doctor thinks he's a tweaker, that's why he sounds so patronizing.
I’m living this right now , all I can think about is this scene and how I feel like Edward Norton in Fight Club .
I can help you. Free yourself from your consumerist prison by giving me all of your things. I don't mind the burden, hell you don't even have to pay me. I'm kind of like Jesus in that way.
No matter how much I watch this scene, I will never not be impressed by the IKEA part.
Why it’s amazingly edited
I love his voice sm
>You can't die from insomnia.
You absolutely can, there is a disorder literally called "fatal insomnia".
But it's extremely rare.
And it's not just "insomnia so bad it kills you", it's a prion disease that includes all kinds of extreme fucked-up symptoms besides insomnia.
I struggled woth insomnia when i was 17 and 18, literally the worst time for that shit
I bumped into people and droped things without even noticing and i slurred when speaking, if i could come up with a proper sentence
Im so glad that time's over.all u really need is to say fuck it and do some thing that makes u tired and sleep for 10 hours each day until it goes away. It worked for me
Lies again? Soccer Football
Mock thee give away state secrets -DIRECTOR OF MI6 You are now a suspect in a breach and are under a federal investigation
This movie is so incredibly well-done holy shit.
I love his voice so fucking much
The ending was awesome when the doctor told him he needed a healthy natural sleep. What doctor says that today? They would just write a prescription of at least 5 drugs so that they can make money!
AJ L yeah don’t knock a good thing buddy
I remember being so desperate that I would have taken anything they prescribed. Thankfully that didnt happen
Yeah but if he did, the city would still have all it's skyscrapers
Clearly it wasn't good advice because he then went on to help start a terrorist group
Yeah, I was thinking he's actually a good doctor for not resorting to that.
This scene explain my situation
flipping through furniture catalogues is like porn for white collar adults
0:12 A wild Tyler Durden appears!
Its super effective
This defines me perfectly.
0:29 all that corporate jargon in just a matter of seconds. So depressing. Reminds me of certain jobs I had.
Everytime I couldn't sleep I come here and hope I could become Tyler
If you actually have legitimate insomnia, you would know that valerian root is fucking amazing. It’s a life saver.
B valerian root doesn’t work for everyone. I’ve tried it, it gives me horrendous nightmares and makes me burp out the taste of koala puke.
Valerian root gives me anxiety
I love how at 0:13 you slowly see Tyler Durden's foreshadowing, the absolute attention of detail of this movie is something.
The Narrator having his real doctor fluff him off was malpractice-tier.
Even in the 1990s they had sleep specialists who could’ve helped with his insomnia.
If he had gotten a Restoril prescription the movie would've ended right there...
This is so true if u ever have insomnia and u see this movie 🎥 movie 🍿 and this scene it will really hit home. With insomnia nothings really real. Everything’s far away everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy!
Come on man I’m in pain!
“ no u need healthy natural sleep, chew some valerian root and get some exercise.
The "Fight Club" movie, directed by David Fincher and released in 1999, features a memorable scene that deals with insomnia. The film is based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name and stars Edward Norton as the narrator and Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden. The scene you're referring to is one of the early moments in the film where the narrator's insomnia is depicted.
In this scene, the narrator, whose name is never revealed in the movie, is portrayed as an insomniac living a mundane and unfulfilling life. He's exhausted, suffering from chronic insomnia, and trying various methods to cure it. He visits support groups for various ailments to help him sleep, but he remains unable to find any relief.
The visual and auditory elements in this scene are crucial in conveying the character's state of mind. The camera work and editing create a sense of disorientation and restlessness, mirroring the protagonist's mental state. The sound design also emphasizes his insomnia, with an unsettling score and ambient noises that add to the discomfort.
Edward Norton's performance is noteworthy in this scene, as he effectively conveys the character's desperation and frustration. His monologue about the emptiness of consumer culture and his longing for meaning in life sets the tone for the film's exploration of existential themes.
As the film progresses, the protagonist's insomnia and his encounters with Tyler Durden lead him down a darker and more chaotic path, ultimately culminating in the creation of the underground fight club, which becomes a symbol of rebellion against modern society.
The insomnia scene in "Fight Club" is a pivotal moment that sets the stage for the film's exploration of masculinity, consumerism, and existential crisis. It's a haunting and visually striking scene that leaves a lasting impression on viewers.
Now I know what the NIN song is a reference to. It must be, since Reznor’s worked with Fincher pretty extensively at this point.
Those synths morphing their sound like 3 times in the first 30 seconds is so sick.
Im dealing with the same situation as him I haven’t been able to sleep for six months straight I quit the gym because I couldn’t sleep I recently started again and I still can’t sleep ive tried every melatonin gummies and every other thing and most ive gotten is about 4 hours of sleep.
Are u ok my man
Boy was he right with space travel being corporatized.
Needed something to watch at 3am
They only thing unrealistic about this scene is how honest that doctor was. You usually will get prescribed at least something when you go to the doctors.
That man is beautiful, my god!
Thanks for sharing!
Best fight club scene.
“...Everything is a copy of a copy...”
HELP!!!! I CAN'T TAKE THIS NO MORE!
You are who you are... Sometimes all you can do is just not take the pain seriously.
He should try out ASMR
"Get more excercise"
And so he did, the rest of the movie.
this is what popped in my mind when i was for the first time in my life buying furniture on my first salary in office
Something I noticed is that at 1:46, when he's talking about waking up in strange places, the doctor dismisses this by saying "You need to lighten up". Thinking a bit about it, it's a bit of a strange response to someone having spots in their memory (especially when that sentence alone could have warranted further examination).
Then I realized that the narrator is looking straight at the camera while saying this - he's not looking at the doctor until 1:55, which makes me wonder something. The narrator doesn't look off in other directions when talking to people, he's always looked straight at people when they talk, but Tyler has a tendency to look somewhere else when talking. Mentioning that he has narcolepsy could give Tyler away - if the narrator got medication for himself then he could suppress Tyler without him even knowing he was there. Because of this, I believe that the narrator is NOT saying this line to the doctor, but that Tyler gains control for a second to say another line to make the narrator's issue seem less intense - then gives back control in that split second.
I like the bit where he goes through his flat showing the names of the products therein. I think that reality is like that, as I think Mach and Buddhism said. We are presented with our sensations and we extract and isolate "things" from within that continuous flow which we then name. The artisanal glasses with tiny bubbles, and the copy of a copy of a copy, is based upon Jean Baudrillard's "For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign." I had read the book shortly before I saw the film and believed back then that I would soon reach enlightenment!
Mock thee give away state secrets -DIRECTOR OF MI6 You are now a suspect in a breach and are under a federal investigation
the narrator is literally me
People were so bored in the 90s with stable jobs and disposable income that they had to beat the shit out of each other to feel something. All we want now are stable jobs and disposable income lol
I would like to be born in late 50s instead of 90s. Living through 80s and 90s would feel better than now I guess.
Lol try stable job...the routine will destroy you and leech the life out of you. There's no winning unless you're rich
Time is 2:56 a.m. and i'm watching it cuz you know...
r b ö yeh I know that pain mate
r b ö how many nights did it last?
r b ö it’s almost the exact same time for me 2:49
2:32am I’m here again lol
Nice, my time is 2:50 am
i had an ikea ad before this video
"Help! I spent a shitload of disposable income on nice furnishings. I am in hell"
TL;DR "The narrator" dubbed "Jack" by fans played by Edward Norton, whom the perspective of the movie was filmed from was Tyler Durden's alter ego.
Tyler creates Jack when he was 6 years old to deal with the loss of his father. Jack was the sound of reason to a totally lost boy and eventually a man (Tyler). Jack had the personality "it will all payoff shortly". Tyler was someone who was fed up with life and eventually decided to take drastic measures and take back control. Tyler thought throughout most of his life that being Jack would make him happy and believed Jack would have a happy ending.
First rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club
This film is way ahead of its time
I have insomnia so I can relate
I'm dealing with insomnia all of a sudden, kind of in the middle of a breakdown lol
I sleep three or two hours a night, cannot bring myself to sleep
I just pass out and then have to be awake for work lol
I'm not even groggy the next day like in Fight Club, I have to be 100% focused for work, so I just kind of nod off for split seconds every few hours lol
damien ducharme HAHAHAH! Great advice.
The fact that people would kill to be able to afford this now.
I came here for the comments. I wasn't disappointed.
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For 6 years I couldn’t sleep properly.
I finally got hit with the “Thomas can you get those reports to me by Friday” so now I’m in Fight Club
That's probably the first time anyone ever got rejected a benzo script
And was better off for it
I need furniture for my new place but I can't help but remember this scene as I search online, including Ikea, for ideas 💡 that "define me as a person".
I love that he's just eating mustard with a knife 🤣 sometimes I do that when I want to taste something but I'm not hungry
everytime i come back here. there is a deep cycle going on in my life. aswell as change. shifting and unshifting. human beings are so flawless , priceless, unique, their limited, primal minds cant even comprehend the amount of detail, & precision that goes into withholding their existence, & the order of reality. shiny object syndrome, and monkey mind thinking and feeling, they cant open their minds beyond the binary, the dual. but the yin yang is one circle, you cant have wholeness/harmony
without light & darkness, yet (to no fault of their own) they seek to make everything "light" not realizing if they let go of that effort they would realize a higher light. this is just the flow/channeling of the infinite. yes nothing is in your control, yes everything is in your control, both those statements can be true at the same time, tho they defy logic. you must be open to accepting that their are higher intelligences then logic/thought, but they must be felt. You are attention /or energy. concentrated into a form(body) yet their is the formless (water) which has no form, meaning it can change and become anything. it is not bound by anything. it simply adjusts itself effortlessly into the needs of the present moment. your mind is like water , or it can be rigid, if you are not open to change, to flow.
ive watched this like three times and i havent noticed tyler til now
This scene has been helping me cope for that last few days. Night shift insomnia is so painful. The only way i can force myself to sleep is to get drunk, but i know it's very short term and i shouldn't do it.
I'm so scared, i can't figure out how I'll get back to normal. What if I'm always this way??
I know its easier said than done, but can't you quit your job and find one in the daytime? Do some job hunting? Your health comes first friend,always. If something happens to your coworker for exemple, The Man will just replace them.
@vortexdaidade no, I can't. I'm retrospect, it wasn't night shift insomnia. It was heartbreak insomnia. 😅
@@lifting_weab oh shoot, sorry for the loss mate, but its great that you identified the cause for it. Sleeping is one of those things I take for granted, but its important for us mammals I guess, be well!
@@vortexdaidade likewise! And agree 100% sleep is extremely important
Lol the doctor at the end. If he had taken his advice about working out, there might not be a movie. 😂
Is is bad that I think his apartment looks really nice?
0:11 put 0.25speed and watch tyler appear
"chew some valerian root" is about the same as what modern medicine can offer us today, even
I'm starting to lose sleep and I haven't been able to sleep well and I'm afraid I have insomnia, I only take naps and even then I can only nap when I'm exhausted which is after hours and hours and hours of not sleeping, and even then I'm tired after taking a nap for an hour or two, idk if I'm overreacting
Sounds like this was from a DVD rip. 25 frames per second. Faster playback. Lighter voices. Pretty funny.
I was diagnosed with a sleep disorder recently and boy does this ring true
We should've worked out the twist from here, you always miss certain easy detail in your first viewing.
It's HELL. I nearly lost it at the doctors today when he started getting difficult re sleeping tablets. They give them to women easily enough but not guys. I said "do you want me to go back to half a litre of spirits a night", and nearly said f*****g spirits. "No need to raise your voice" .
Aye there bloody well IS. Cos i got something prescribed.
i miss having anxiety now i don't feel anything, nothing really matters.
He told us right at the beginning, didn't he?! "Nothing is real."
I don't even have insomnia and I relate
I can free you from your slavery to consumerism. I will selflessly take the burden of owning all of your things.
“Alright here’s some klonopin” *Directed by David Fincher*
only clicked on this so say technically isn't the whole film an insomnia scene?
For 6 months, I couldn't sleep
With Insomnia, nothing's real
Everything's far away. Everything's far away. Everything's a copy, of a copy, of a copy
Every time I watch this I get pissed at the doctor. Ed Norton can’t sleep! Just prescribe him some sleeping pills and see if it solves the problem!
poor gen x er the late 90s sure were tough.
That doctor should lose his medical license.
For what? Not immediately prescribing someone drugs because they said they couldn't sleep? Lol
Did your doctor tell you to take adderall to wake up and Xanax to sleep
@@JohnSmith-sd4mn a medical doctor is someone who PRACTICES MEDICINE. Refusing to practice medicine is MEDICAL MALPRACTICE. Adderall and Xanax are drugs (medication) that are typically prescribed for the reasons you yourself mentioned. I have no clue what you think a doctor is or what they do, but you have thoroughly owned yourself.
@@karlhilton6641 what in the hell did you just say. That made zero sense
"You can't die from insomnia" Yes you can?
My life right now...feel like i'm going mad...
Ditto
For 2 hours I couldn't sleep
The ONLY Dr. in the 1990s to say "no" to a requested prescription. "Sure; here take these opiates. They're non-habit forming."