10 Most Unreliable Movie Narrators Of All Time

Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are both on the poster, so they have to be two different people, right?

In one of the most famous cinematic examples of the unreliable narrator, Fight Club follows a character known simply as ‘the narrator’, as he comes to terms with split personality disorder, and the inherent duality of humanity.

While returning from a trip, he encounters the charming and charismatic Tyler Durden, and the two set up the film’s eponymous fight club. Durden is everything the narrator wishes he could be, and more, but he only realises that the two personalities are one in the same once Durden’s more unstable personality traits start to get out of hand.

Since the narrator talks about and interacts with Tyler in the third person, we’ve no reason to think that the two are inherently linked, and that the latter is simply a physical manifestation of the former’s growing insecurities, brought on by a severe case of insomnia.