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1. When he 'meets' the Brad-Pitt-Durden (hereby referred to as BPD) he receives a business card for 'his' soap company that he was running out of that nasty rundown house. Had this business & residence existed all along? I mean, when BPD makes a sale to the woman at the cosmetic counter who remarks how great the soap is, that implies that this was NOT the first time BPD had been in that store, which therefore implies that Edward-Norton-Durden (NTD) had actually had this split lifestyle/personality for quite sometime. Long enough, anyways, to start this soap factory and make some clientele. Give me your opinion on this...
It's my understanding that END was secretly BPD for a long time before he "meets" his alter ego. In the bleery haze of his insomnia, he'd been making soap, running a projector and pissing in lobster bisque.
2. How dumb was I to not pick up the fact that BPD IS END the first time I saw this flick? I musta missed the airplane sequence, because after watching it again, it was glaringly obvious that BPD wasn't there for any of the flight and thus, was a figment of END's imagination.
Not very. I didn't catch on the first time I saw it: all those seemingly "obvious" clues are really only obvious after you already know the secret.
3. Near the beginning of the movie, there's a BRIEF flash of red in human form...one of those editted-frames they refer to later (the penis in the kids' movie). It's apparent (to me) that THAT was his first glimpse of BPD, yet he had to have been acting-out BPD all along, in order to successfully set up his soap business and address. When the chick calls him at that location and says "This is the forwarding number you gave me", that too makes it obvious that BPD's appearance in this movie couldn't have been the first in END's life. When he originally gave her that phone number, he'd yet to even meet BPD.
Those flashes are, indeed, very briefly supplanted images of BPD: they're the first contact between the two personalities: while they'd both existed for quite some time, they were kept seperate from each other. The gradual breaking-down of the wall between the two is illustrated by the flashes.
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