THE MACHINIST

THE MACHINIST

This movie is all about Trevor Reznik a local machinist, who suffers from insomnia for a year after a road accident he committed. He accidently hit  Nicholas (a small boy - the plot does not say any name of this boy, Trevor calls him as Nicholas and his mom as Marie) and runs away without stopping. This incident upsets him a lot and from then he suffers from insomnia. The film opens with a day after 1 year of the accident; we can see Christian bale very skinny and looks really troubled.

This movie really stunned me for its story telling and screenplay. Ofcourse the other character Ivan was predictable for the viewer who has already watched FIGHTCLUB (1999). But still this movie does not have any of the resemblece of the later one.

Since, this being a drama and story telling movie, it is slow but not really boring. The camera work is awesome. Picture is mostly captured in dark and this adds more interest to the film. I read about the film in net and found two noticeble points. First one is that, Bale reduced almost 27Kg for this film in a month and the other one is that all the shooting of the film happened in Spain but the plot shows in US.

REALLY ONE OF THE BEST DRAMA !!!

With love,

MMR