by Paramount
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| Sales Rank: | 2047 (lower is better) |
| Price Used: | $7.20 |
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| Director: | Brad Anderson (II) |
| Release Date: | 2005-06-07 |
| Label: | Paramount |
| UPC: | 097363441441 |
| Binding: | DVD |
| Published By: | Paramount |
| ASIN: | B0007Y08QA |
| Category: | DVD |
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Product Description
After 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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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 Sánchez-Gijón) 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
Customer Reviews
Excellent Movie About The Dark Place We Can Go - Reviewed on 2008-07-09
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.
Psychological Thriller - Reviewed on 2008-06-13
Christian Bale is one of the greatest actors of his generation. That said, the Machinist is a unique psychological thriller in that the protagonist looks like Death warmed over. Bale is so bone-thin, it lends to the fear factor and the realism.
The story is about Trevor Resnik, a loner machinist who works the graveyard shift. Strange events begin to occur, and Trevor believes there may be a conspiracy against him. As the viewer is drawn into his world, brief moments of happiness, respite from the fear, do not last long before we are plunged into another waking nightmare. We long for release for Trevor, and it is granted at the end, but not after a bit too long of a rollercoaster ride of mental adrenaline.
Recommended, but I recommend the futuristic action film Equilibrium more. Bale is his best here, physically (thank God) and of course in acting ability.
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Book Subjects
- Adult Humor
- Adult Situations
- Bleak
- Color
- Drama
- Driven Insane
- Eerie
- English
- Feature
- Feature Film-drama
- Gore
- Grim
- Haunted By the Past
- Mind Games
- Movie
- Nudity
- Ominous
- Paranoid
- Paranoid Thriller
- Profanity
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