10 Subtle Ways Movies Foreshadowed Major Spoilers
6. When Lou Punches Tyler, The Narrator Flinches - Fight Club
Fight Club is such a brilliantly detail-dense movie, with director David Fincher's typically meticulous approach providing plenty for audiences to pick up on repeat viewings.
The film's massive late-film twist is, of course, that Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is actually a dissociated personality residing within the Narrator's (Edward Norton) body and mind.
There are many fascinating nods to this throughout the film, though one of the subtlest and least-discussed occurs during the infamous scene where bar owner Lou (Peter Iacangelo) wants to know why one of Tyler's fight club meetings is taking place in his basement.
When Lou sucker-punches an insouciant Tyler, look closely at the Narrator on the left, who suddenly moves his head down as though slightly flinching and also feeling the hit.
First-time viewers might just assume it's a sympathetic movement on the Narrator's part, but once we know what the real deal is, it's clearly sneakily symbolic of their shared pain.
A filmmaker of Fincher's exactitude simply wouldn't do something like this by accident.