The main character Jack the Narrator, played by Edward Norton, is schizophrenic and has multiple personalities. The film starts at the ending of the movie and goes back in the main character’s memory about three years before the present moment in the film. The indirect-subjective point of view is used because it gets the viewer close to the action but does not allow them to take part in it. Once Norton’s character realizes that he has multiple personalities the director uses more objective points of views. The movie does have some director interpretive points of views.

Cinematic composition is important to Fight Club as it is to all movies. The methods the director uses to draw attention to the objects of greatest significance are extreme close-ups and arrangement of people. The director mostly used the extreme close-ups for inanimate objects and the arrangement of people for Jack the Narrator and Tyler. Also to create the illusion of three-dimensionality the director used change of focal planes. The director would often have the camera focused on an action in the background then he would change the focus of the camera to an object or person in the foreground. This shows movement from one person to the other without moving the camera or the persons. This also shows a connection between two people or objects.

The editing of Fight club corresponds with the movies fast paced story line, so that there would not be a lot of dead screen time. This film was intended to be confusing at first, but to be unified as the movie came to a close. To do this the editor uses flashbacks to bring it all together at the end. Another technique the editor used was splicing. The editor did this toward the beginning of the film by having the image of Tyler pop up from time to time. The editor and the director did this to show how Jack the narrator was losing his mind and the random pop ups of Tyler could have been the beginning of his split personalities.

This film was a “fast passed adrenaline rush” because its cinematography never let there be dead screen time and its editor made the necessary cuts and jumps to keep the story flowing at a continuous rate.

The director also got to put his own impression on some of the most influential scenes in the film. With out cinematography and editing all moves would be unbelievably boring. At times scenes would be motion less and dole and at other times the emotion of a scene would be lost, because there isn’t good editing. It is truly one of the most well done movies in the areas of cinematography and editing.