Fight Club and The Matrix are two very important movies for me, mostly because I was in high school in the early 90s.
So yeah, I may watch these two movies a lot. I even have a Matrix tattoo.
Something struck me recently. Near the end of Fight Club, when Edward Norton is beginning to realize that he’s Tyler Durden.
“You work nights because you can’t sleep. Or you stay up and make soap.”
Now, the scene where Neo meets Trinity for the first time:
“I know why you’re here, Neo. I know what you’ve been doing. I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night you sit at your computer.”
Neither of these main characters can sleep. They’re searching for something. Your next life, who knows?
And then each character expands because they start hanging around people.
Edward Norton was fighting with himself in the parking lot of Lou’s Tavern, when that guy walked up and said, “can I be next?”
Neo was searching, living alone, living on his computer. But his pals dropped buy for a miniDisc, right?
This then leads to Neo meeting more characters that wear all black and do stuff with computers.
This is an absolutely incomplete line of thinking between the two movies, the two characters. I’m not saying they’re connected, or in the same universe.
But the concept of not sleeping, or searching for meaning in some way outside yourself… I don’t know where this is going, so please stand by.