20 Things Hidden In Fight Club You Totally Missed
10. White Boxers
No, this point isn’t titled this way to indicate that the men fight nor is it depicting their ethnicity.
On the thread of things the film does to reveal its own plot twist, there’s an incredibly subtle point regarding the mise en scene. The costuming in particular. Tyler is shown to be upbeat and eccentric, from the way he acts to the clothes he wears - which includes a shirt made up of porn at one point. In contrast, the Narrator is his polar opposite. A working white-collared stiff.
However, other than their initial exchange where they have the same briefcase, there’s another similarity between them – their underwear. In the rare scene that we see the narrator in his boxers before his condo burns down, he’s wearing plaid. However, once he moves in with Tyler, there are multiple scenes of both of them in white boxers, the same exact ones. They’re one and the same, much like their wearers.