10 Weirdest Times Films Broke The Fourth Wall

10. Fight Club - Cigarette Burns

The political, violent, and nihilistic brilliance of Fight Club is realised entirely in The Narrator's consistent breaking of the fourth wall to address the audience, with the best example coming part and parcel with the cigarette burns scene.

Taking an almost infomercial style break to relay all the intricacies of how to splice porn into children's films to bring us into the joke, Tyler shows us his technique for scarring children for life in the name of giant dicks the world over. Is there any cause more just?

The best part of this scene is the repeated references back to it. Tyler's own image is spliced throughout Fight Club as if he's added him in personally, and as the film finishes, we see the very 'nice big c*ck' that he added in earlier to the reels we saw on screen.

Everything is one big construct to remind us that nothing we see can be believed, especially with someone as untrustworthy as The Narrator as our filmy guide.