This movie rocked hard and often for me. I loved this movie. It was totally different than I thought it was going to be, and that's a good thing. As weird as it sounds, it was a movie I could somehow relate to.
I am sure everyone feels like different people at different times. I know I do. But how he was both characters without knowing it, was awesome. The reason it struck me like it did was because something weird happened to me a few days before seeing the movie that I still can't explain.
I had gone to bed about 12.30am. I had to be to work at 7.30am. As I was lying there in bed, trying to fall asleep, I was thinking it would be cool if I somehow got up about an hour late, getting an extra hour of sleep, and hopefully having a good enough excuse as to avoid any trouble. So the next morning, I wake up, look at the clock, it says 6.30am, so I decided I should get ready. I took my shower and all that fun stuff. I came into the living room, looked up at the clock, and it said 7.30am! I panicked.
How the hell did that happen? I checked my bedroom clock again. It was an hour behind! How did it get an hour behind? Power went out? No. If the power went out for an hour, the clock would have been flashing 12.00, but it wasn't. Also my computer is plugged into the same plug as that clock, and my computer had been on all night, and it had never lost power. And the clock could not have been accedently changed because the clock is on my VCR and the VCR remote is broken. To change the VCR clock, I have to go into another room and use the remote from that TV.
What's the point? Well, when I saw Fight Club, I thought to myself "Wow, wouldn't it be weird if, after I fell asleep, some part of me got up and changed the clock an hour back, like I thought of before I went to bed?" The brain sure can be a strange thing.