So we can imagine that physically, looking through the illusion of Tyler being a real person, Jack is holding his own right arm with his own left hand. Peculiarly, Tyler is holding Jack’s right arm with his own left hand. The actual depth of this scene starts to unravel when we become aware that Tyler is only Jack’s alter ego, and that hence Jack is holding his own arm.
But Tyler holds him fast, not allowing him to escape. What the viewer sees during the Chemical Burn-scene is Tyler Durden holding Jack’s arm in a firm grasp, with the latter trying to escape multiple times. In Fight Club, the situation is a bit more complex.
#Chemical burn on hand free#
Of course he is threatened to die by the Gom Jabbar if he does – but still, his hand is free to move and remains inside the box only by his own resolve. No one is directly disallowing him to remove his hand. Paul is, physically speaking, free to remove his hand from the box insofar as he’s not actually captured or fettered. Very differently from that, Jack is caught by surprise, with Tyler telling him “This is a chemical burn,” in the very moment he pours the lye over his hand.
Paul Atreides is ordered to put his hand inside a box, where he is announced to experience pain. Yet, in both scenes the respective right hand is physically situated differently. Given that most people are right-handed, the right hand is, symbolically speaking, the hand with which we act.
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