Fight Club utilizes reception theory through its mysterious and hard to follow plotlines that require viewers to come up with their own interpretations. Reception theory emphasizes the individual interpretations and meanings that each viewer takes from a text based on their own experiences. Fight Club contains encoded messages from the director that are open to different decodings by audiences - from agreeing with the dominant messages to a total oppositional reading. Certain ambiguous scenes are open to multiple interpretations, exemplifying how reception theory is a key driving factor behind the film's design and analysis.