Like 'Apocalypse Now', the audience is lead by narration to give a reflecting insight into the apocalyptic journey of young professional named Jack. Jack works a regular nine to five office job for an insurance company and suffers from insomnia. He finds his cure in attending support groups for the mortally afflicted. One of the first groups he attends is a testicular cancer group and discovers, through an exercise referred to as "pairing up" (to share brotherly emotion with your fellow mortally afflicted), that crying with and hugging these people makes him feel better. He, although he does not have testicular cancer, is spiritual impotent and this group allows him to fill that void in his life.

Like Willard in 'Apocalypse Now', Jack's revelation at the end of his hellish journey is left unclear and complex. In the voice of his narration, perhaps there is a conclusion: "You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your khakis. You are not a beautiful unique snowflake. What happens when you can't sleep? What happens then is there's a gun in your mouth. And what happens next is you meet Tyler Durden. Let me tell you about Tyler. He had a plan. In Tyler we trusted. Tyler says self-improvement is masturbation. Tyler says-self-destruction might be the answer." Conceivably, there is a Tyler Durden inside the soul of us all waiting to be called. "I'm simply what you needed and wanted," Durden said the moment Jack realized they were the same person. Director of 'Apocalypse Now', Francis Ford Coppala said it best in an interview during the release of his movie, "I believe that the end was always about choice."

apocalypse. The closing scene of the film has Jack and Marla, side by side, looking on as the national credit building explodes in flames. With their debt they owed to the material world purged to zero, they head off in a fresh direction as the new Adam and Eve.

Unable to undo the chaos of his demonized double, Jack tries to alert the police about the next act of terrorism that is about to occur. Durden has instructed the members to blow up the national credit building, so that every man will owe nothing and hence begin their life over at zero. However, Jack is unaware that the police are apart of his grandfallon and that Durden has told them that he would go to them and reveal their plans. The police respond to Jack, "you are a genius, you predicted that you would come to us and reveal project mayhem, and when you did we must cut off your balls." Here the element of a prophecy being fulfilled enters into the apocalyptic equation. Therefore, like a true prophet in the apocalyptic tradition, Durden has set a date for his followers of when 'project mayhem' will occur. However, he is a false prophet, because like Marshall Applewhite, he has coaxed his followers to force the apocalyptic event upon them. Also, offering himself up for his grandfallon is very similar to the position that Bokonon takes. Thus, all the elements that have become synonymous with the end times begin to occur during the film's end.

After a month or two, the feeling of identity he gets from the support groups wears off and he begins to develop insomnia again. Unable to sleep, he volunteers to travel and represent his company abroad. Unaffected by jet lag he begins to enjoy arriving at a new destination every morning. Consequently he avoids experiencing the torturous night in which he can't sleep. The pivotal moment in his life occurs on his flight back to his home in LA. On the plane he meets Tyler Durden, who introduces himself as a soap manufacturer. When they land in LA, they exchange business cards. Soon after his encounter with Durden, he arrives at his condo only to step over a burnt piece of his couch, to be greeted by a fireman, explaining to him that his apartment blew

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