As a result, they start a fight club where men like them can let out their frustration in bare-knuckle, mano-a-mano fights, finally feeling some sensation in a world that has left them numb. One day (on a nude beach in the book, on a flight home in the film), the Narrator encounters Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a self-styled revolutionary who recognizes the Narrator's disgruntlement with consumer society (he nicknames him "Ikea Boy"), and invites him to shack up at his dilapidated house after an explosion destroys the Narrator's apartment - but not before demanding that the Narrator punch him in the face as hard as he can, an experience that the two of them heavily enjoy. At one of these support groups, the Narrator meets Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), a strung-out, possibly disturbed woman who's attending the support groups for the same reasons he is he sees in her everything he hates about himself, and as a result, the support groups no longer work to alleviate his insomnia.
The jet lag caused by his frequent business trips has given him a problem with insomnia, leading him to start frequenting support groups for various things under false pretenses in order to alleviate it.
On the surface, he's living the upper-middle class dream that had been promised to successful white men like him, but in reality, his stressful office job and consumerist lifestyle leave him feeling empty inside.
The plot revolves around an unnamed man, known only as the Narrator or "Jack" (played by Edward Norton in the film), who works as a product recall specialist for a car company. Let's get this out of the way now: there is a big twist at the end of the story, and it is going to be spoiled here, as it is key to understanding the story's themes and message.
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