The document discusses the use of lighting in the film Fight Club, directed by David Fincher. It notes that Fincher typically uses dark, moody lighting that casts long shadows. In Fight Club, scenes involving the main character's madness or alter ego Tyler are lit more darkly and grittily. The dark lighting of the fight club scenes suggests the unhealthy nature of using violence to solve problems and shows the protagonist descending further into his subconscious. The lighting helps tell the story of a man battling his inner demons through its contrast of bright scenes in the real world and darker scenes involving madness and Tyler.

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2.  David Fincher always used heavy, dark
lighting in his work.
 You can often tell if a film is a David Fincher
film if the lighting is dark, dramatic and casts
long shadows.
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4.  Keeping the last slide in mind is can been presumed
that the lighting in this film is dark and gritty, causing
long, dramatic shadows and making the audience feel
the tension in the film.
 And while this is true the lighting also reflects our
main character’s (the narrator) slow descent into
madness. Whenever the narrator is in the real world,
his house, his job, the police station, the doctors
anything that attaches him to our world there is a
bright light present and the scene is clear to us, we see
everything that is going on.
 But whenever the narrator is in a situation, or a place,
that will effect the narrators madness the lighting is
darker and grittier. Huge of green can sometimes be
seen over certain scenes with Tyler and the Narrator in
them, showing the narrators jealousy for his alter ego
Tyler but also that he is sick because he doesn’t know
he and Tyler are the same person.

5.  Another thing to notice is how dark the
lighting is when the men are in fight club.
Surely Fincher wanted us to the fighting clearly
so we how these men are damaging each other.
But this lighting shows how this way of solving
his problems isn’t healthy for the narrator. It
just sends him further into his subconous
which is dark and dangerous and could hurt a
lot of people.

7.  The lighting shows the audience that film is a
story of a man fighting his inner demons and
problems including his own expectations of
himself.
 The lighting helps us to see this by showing the
gritty and dark reality of the narrators life and
how he created Tyler to tackle this problem.
But also to symbolise the narrators descent into
Tyler and fear he feels through that.