In David Fincher’s 1999 movie Fight Club, the lead character spends most of the runtime talking to themselves. So much so that by the end of the movie they have convinced themselves, and several others, of many things that they no longer believe. The public charisma of their alter ego becomes so strong, their message so appealing that there is absolutely nothing they can do to stop the sequence of events that they themselves have put in motion. Their crusade is bigger than them now and whether or not it has any merits or basis in reality simpl…
