Every time Tyler flashes in Fight Club (1999)

There it is !

[CodaMission]

"The audience doesn't know they saw it, but they did"

[simonwalker]

I like how he pops up when the words "pain" "open ourselves up" & "copy" are said.

[ashtontroy]

When you're friend is trying to join the lobby but has weak internet connection 😑

[chubchubpotatoes]

Him flashing also symbolizes the part about Tyler editing movie reels together for quick flashes

[rsolsjo]

Love that this is his subconscious mind trying to tell him something and at the same time the movie is doing exactly the same thing to the viewer. Just planting it there even if you barely noticed.

[sereleiva]

I though I was so obsessed with brad that I imagined it

[jefersonvilaede]

that doctor is the reason fight club started. all he had to do was give "jack" sleeping pills

[sidewys]

I watched this for the first time today on HBO Max and I thought that it was just the stream glitching lmao

[dankmementos]

First time I seen that I was really creeped out because it was in the middle of the night

[rockypuno]

I saw all of these and was confused. But when the movie finished it made so much sense. Amazing.

[kamikazeeOG]

If you also notice, he only sees Tyler during his bouts of insomnia. When he first finds the groups and starts sleeping again, the flashes of Tyler go away.

[constructivecriticism]

Tyler looks so confused the first time he flashes (last clip of the video). It’s like he’s still processing that he exists.

[MisanthropicTimeSlipperz]

"It's called a changeover, the movie keeps going and no one in the audience has any idea."

[element]

I only caught 2 of these at first viewing

[clutchcarabelli]

Trying to pause these makes me want to fight myself

[seanwalsh]

I literally don’t remember this at all lol

[angelandmark]

love how you can see tyler slowly becoming aware of his existence

[ronnyk]

As another commenter mentioned, he appears during key phrases, the second layer is that this is the start of the creation of Tyler in his monotonous life routine, riddled with mediocrity. Essentially you're "unknowingly" watching his alter ego being built to cope with the humdrum and meaninglessness of his existence. It's essentially the beginning of his psychotic break, indicating the key tools Tyler will be exploiting to make real both the alter ego and his plan.

[thefilmrookie]

I noticed it but didn’t know who it was. This is great for second and third comers as it is a hint to the fact that Tyler is in his head.
“Pain”, “open ourselves up”, backing out of his desire, “everything is a copy”
He shows up when he breaks out of his framed reality, the perception he has for himself. Each time the frame flash is slightly longer. When the guy is taking about opening up, he has a friend like gesture, arm on his shoulder with a smile, as if it is something he wants to do. Tyler represents the things that we at some point think about even for a flash of a second, the dark reality where life isn’t good. And it slowly forms over time and then has a mind of its own, or a strangle on your mind. The movie ends in chaos because in the end humans desire some sort of chaos in there lives, in one form or another, maybe then the world may start new and be better.
But that’s my interpretation. I’ve only seen the film once. Might watch it again, since I’ve found it on Netflix.

[SeaSparklesLP]

i like the implication that tyler durden was the projectionist for every real world showing of this movie and splicing himself into the film