Fight Club is a film that insists that its viewers look past what's on the surface and find something deeper. Fight Club is a profound film with many subplots and multiple themes. The movie probes into such topics as consumerism, the feminization of society, manipulation, cultism, fascism, and even the mysteries of the human ego. Primarily, it is a film that surrealistically describes the status of the American male at the end of the 20th century as disenchanted, unfulfilled, and looking for a way out. It depicts how entrepreneurial males have been emasculated by their modern life styles, by a feminized consumer culture that places more worth on fancy cars and designer labels than the well known masculine values like power and strength. .
The central character in the film remains nameless. He is trapped in the corporate world and finds himself increasingly dissatisfied with the benefits it is supposed to deliver. The movie asks many questions about everyday psychology and coping with the problems of the world. It starts off with this "successful" business man who is struggling with how his life turned out and he is constantly trying to keep up with his corporate world. He hates his job and is also fighting insomnia and is trying to make sense of his life. When the narrator finally gets tired of not being able to sleep he consults a physician, the doctor tells him to check out this support group so he can experience what the doctor calls "real pain". On his first visit to the support group the narrator has a conversation with a man named Bob. While listening to Bob cry about all of his problems, the narrator starts to cry. He discovers that this emotional release allows him to sleep at night, so the narrator decides to join all different kinds of groups to further rid him with his insomnia. .
As the story continues, the narrator meets a man he met on a plane who goes by the name Tyler Durden.