Similarities with Fight Club


All movie seemed like a homage to a Fincher's piece of modern classics: style, script, secret society, multiple personalities disorder, fight club poster, jeez, even main character in few close ups looked extremely similarly to E.Norton in FC.

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I know I know...
But Fight Club also stole the story (the twist) from an very old movie.
But in my opinion, for a german movie this one, even when it copied much, it still stands on his own and is very watchable.

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I also see lots of parallels:
• The film opens at a point towards the end of the story, followed by a recounting of the events leading up to this moment
• The hero narrates the story
• CLAY is like Project Mayhem
• Max is like the ultra cool alter-ego Tyler, teaching Ben his Social Engineering tactics
• Ben makes Hanne believe he suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder
• They experiment with chemicals in their kitchen
• In one scene Ben looks beaten up like the narrator of FC after he harmed himself. The choice to cast Tom Schilling may well have been influenced by his Edward Norton-like look and figure.

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Max & co. were real, so no, it's not like FC.

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How do you know Max & co. were real? I am a psychology major and I think the final scene is just Ben trying to reconstruct his memory with his "imaginary friends."

And to be honest, I don't like that the film incorrectly educates the audience that his symptons is of multiple personality disorder. Real MPD cases are not like this, and there have been many criminal cases of MPD patients because the "imaginary friends" are usually more violant and hostile than psychologically stable people. Please read about MPD on Wikipedia.

What Ben has is in my opinion "imaginary friends" and that he feels socially isolated to a point that he believes real people in general want to harm him or laugh at him. So that is more like paranoid schizophrenia like John Forbes Nash Jr. had in "The Beautiful Mind."

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