The Machinist
by Brad Anderson (II)
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Actor: Aitana S?nchez-Gij?n, Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Sharian, Michael IronsideDirector: Brad Anderson (II)
Brand: BALE,CHRISTIAN
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Machinist
Movie Review: Excellent Movie About The Dark Place We Can Go
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is very good. A warning though, Christian Bale, is very difficult to look at throughout the movie. I had read that he dropped to 100 pounds to become the character of Trevor. Without giving anything away, Trevor is a machinist who has not slept in over a year. He is tired, lonely, and strange things start happening to him. He spends his time working, visiting a prostitue, Jennifer Jason Leigh, surprisingly good in this film, and having coffee in the wee hours of the morning at a local airport. The film is dark, sad, and ultimately a strong statement of the evils that men can do. Highly reccommended.
Summary of The Machinist
As a bleak and chilling mood piece, The Machinist gets under your skin and stays there. Christian Bale threw himself into the title role with such devotion that he shed an alarming 63 pounds to play Trevor Reznik (talk about "starving artist"!), a factory worker who hasn't slept in a year. He's haunted by some mysterious occurrence that turned him into a paranoid husk, sleepwalking a fine line between harsh reality and nightmare fantasy--a state of mind that leaves him looking disturbingly gaunt and skeletal in appearance. (It's no exaggeration to say that Bale resembles a Holocaust survivor from vintage Nazi-camp liberation newsreels.) In a cinematic territory far removed from his 1998 romantic comedy Next Stop Wonderland, director Brad Anderson orchestrates a grimy, nocturnal world of washed-out blues and grays, as Trevor struggles to assemble the clues of his psychological conundrum. With a friendly hooker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and airport waitress (Aitana S?nchez-Gij?n) as his only stable links to sanity, Trevor reaches critical mass and seems ready to implode just as The Machinist reveals its secrets. For those who don't mind a trip to hell with a theremin-laced soundtrack, The Machinist seems primed for long-term status as a cult thriller on the edge. --Jeff ShannonAfter not being able to sleep for over a year, a withered and confused industrial factory worker begins to question his sanity.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-JUN-2005
Media Type: DVD
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