First of all, oh my gosh, Edward Norton. Don’t need to see
him shirtless to be physically attracted to this guy (which is funny, because
he’s naked in a lot of other movies).
Second of all, I don’t know if Tyler Durden is an actual
hypocrite. He gets his physique from fighting and possibly working out on the
side, but I think what’s important is not how he gets his physique or what
his physique looks like, but why. And this can be proven using what
Tyler said himself to the Narrator. He points out how men in society want the
Calvin Klein look because that’s what society tells them looks good; they are
controlled and imprisoned by society’s standards. Tyler, on the other hand,
never even comments on his own physique, nor does he seem to notice it. If he
did acknowledge his physique, he would probably only point out that his body is
a byproduct of what he has done. This byproduct idea applies to the uglier
aspects of his body, as well. The scars on his body, as well as the painful
process that accompanies earning such scars, are merely a means to an end. The
end is to overcome; to overcome pain, materialism, consumerism. Do all this,
and you are truly freed. Thus, Tyler is able to confront the pain head-on, and
forces the Narrator to do so, too, when he burns him, because the point of all
that pain is to get over it.
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