The Machinist
by Brad Anderson
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Actor: Aitana S?nchez-Gij?n, Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Sharian, Michael IronsideDirector: Brad Anderson
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Xavi Gim?nez
Producer: Antonia Nava
Producer: Carlos Fern?ndez
Producer: Javier Arsuaga
Producer: Julio Fern?ndez
Producer: Teresa Gefaell
Writer: Scott Kosar
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
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: Cold, Dark Nightmare
Summary: 5 Stars
Thoroughly enjoyed this disturbing film. Listening to the Director's Commentary gave some wonderful insights to shoestring budget movie making as well.
Summary of The Machinist
THE MACHINIST is the story of Trevor Reznik, a machinist who hasn't slept in over a year. Working in a machine shop, Trevor faces the usual occupational hazards, yet his extreme fatigue only makes them worse, causing him to accidentally cut off a co-worker's hand. What Trevor suffers from clearly isn't a typical case of insomnia.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 Shannon
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