Marla's worry makes no sense
Marla calls Narrator at one point in the movie - to his WORK number, mind you (how the heck did she get that and why the heck would she save it and who and how and what..??) - and without greeting or anything, just starts with the most ridiculous statement about her body part I have ever seen in a movie.
Why does she think that, when there's nothing wrong with that body part? I guess writers forgot to think about THAT part.
However, even if she DID think that, wouldn't she consider that a GOOD thing?
Here are things this movie has told us about Marla so far:
- she WANTS to die, the tragedy of her life is that she DOESN'T. Remember this one.
- she TRIES suicide periodically (probably), the authorities appearing at her doorstep doesn't even phase her, so it can't be the first time it happened, and in any case, she did try suicide this time (labeling it casually to be 'a cry for help')
- she walks in traffic without ANY concern or care for her wellbeing or life, being injured in a car crash or whatnot
- she smokes like a chimney (figuratively speaking)
- she has no morals (steals clothes, orders food for dead people, etc. etc.), she doesn't seem to care about anything
Now, from all that we have been shown and told about Marla..
.. (who doesn't even think to use a pseudonym or a 'fake name', but her REAL NAME for everything? Are you kidding me? Also, wouldn't she be able to figure out Narrator's real name from .. you know, HIS WORK PHONE NUMBER?! Whom would she ask if she called and a secretary or someone else answered? We know Narrator doesn't work as 'Tyler Durden' in the office, and the movie cheats again by saying 'my man here' instead of his 'official name', by the way)...
..does this seem like an individual that would be WORRIED about her body part being cancerous? Hello, she smokes in a friggin' tuberculosis meeting!
I mean, Marla not caring about anything and WANTING to die, trying suicide, suddenly being worried that a part of her body might have been touched by the very death she so deeply yearns for MAKES NO SENSE!
Why would _THIS_ particular individual worry about her body part rotting off? Wouldn't she more likely CELEBRATE having cancer so she can finally get her big wish? She has a death wish, she's suicidal, she doesn't care about anything, she smokes more than anyone's body could reasonably withstand and she does it deliberately (most likely), so HOW THE HECK can we be suddenly expected to believe she WORRIES ABOUT HER G*D D*AMNED T*T?!!
Just pisses me off when movies do this kind of switcharoo suddenly.. Marla doesn't care if her body part falls off, she celebrates things like that! Maybe she's a schizo, too (I am using old world-terminology, deal with it)..
In any case, this scene makes NO sense, especially since why would she need someone ELSE to check it for her, when she could very easily check it herself? Even that bit makes no sense. Why would Narrator be any better at checking whether there's some tumor there than she? SHE should know her own chest area way better than anyone else, she has full access to it every second of her waking life, for crying out loud! How can some amateur guy just suddenly be better at assessing and analyzing her chest for something that's not supposed to be there, than HER, who has known her own body for many many years?
Yeah, when you think about movies, you can easily realize almost nothing about almost any movie makes almost no sense - but this scene is one of the worst offenders in this way.
It absolutely makes no sense.