The Machinist

I’ll start my movie reviews with the most recent film I have watched, The Machinist. First of all, if you don’t like movies where you have to think, you won’t like this movie. It is very avante-garde and does a lot of strange things. Christian Bale plays Trevor Reznik, a machinist, who seems sickly thin and who frequents a hooker named Stevie(Jennifer Jason Leigh). He often finds himself in a cafe’ at the airport being waited on by a spanish woman named Marie(Aitana Sanchez-Goijon). Soon enough you find out things aren’t going as reality should dictate them and you will be on a journey of abnormal mind. Reznik hasn’t slept in over a year, and his weight is going down consistantly. He lives alone in an antiseptic house and is always washing his hands. This movie is about a journey, a journey of a man riddled with guilt, in fact it makes him so sick his withering away. He is being tricked by his own mind into seeing and interacting with people and things that don’t even exist. The Machinist is a movie for those people who dont like a linear movie, people who like to watch a movie and raise theyre eyebrows at things. It is filled with imagery and very subtle things that all add up in a very surprising and for me at least unexpected climax that led me to appreciate the movie and every loose end tied together. I strongly recommend this movie to the crowd that likes movies that are a little on the strange side and like to be taken on nightmarish escapades. To the other people, those who don’t like movies that are quite so strange, this movie might be boring or even just a mind boggler for you, but if its a rainy day and your incredibly bored, I wouldn’t count the Machinist out.