The Machinist

Suffering from a year long insomnia, Trevor Reznik has almost given up eating and floats about in a semi-conscious state. He still works at the huge and dangerous machines in a factory, but his increasingly strange and distanced behaviour starts to turn his colleagues against him. After an accident that he is held responsible for, he is fired and then lost in a world that becomes more and more threatening to him - for reasons that he does not know.
Method to the max, Bale has done an inverted Raging Bull in losing an amazing 63 pounds, giving Trevor Reznik a skeleton-like, almost unbearable vulnerability that is crucial to the
film. Reznik is a human ghost, living a hallucinatory nightmare that he desperately needs to find the answers to. Bale is no less than stunning, capturing the viewer's full attention from the first frame to the very last.
The Machinist is outstandingly stylish, filmed in bleak sepia colors that underline the pathological atmosphere that is omnipresent throughout the film. Director Brad Anderson already proved that he knew his way in the thriller landscape with Session 9 in 2001. With this brilliant Kaflcaesque thriller, he is exploring new, even darker territories.

MARTIN WEGELAND

Premiärstatus
Svensk premiär: Medverkande
Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Ironside: Producent
Julio Fernandez: Manus
Scott Alan Kosar: Foto
Xavier Gimenéz: Musik
Roque Banos: Talat språk
English