The Machinist
- Release Date
- February 9, 2004
- Director
- Brad Anderson
- Cast
- Christian Bale , Jennifer Jason Leigh , Aitana Sánchez-Gijón , John Sharian , Michael Ironside , Larry Gilliard Jr.
- Runtime
- 90
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Scott Kosar
- Tagline
- Trevor Reznik is four letters away from the truth.
- Website
- http://www.machinistmovie.com/
Summary
This is no place to be hallucinating, but Trevor Reznik cannot necessarily trust his own bleary eyes anymore. When he meets a new worker at the shop, the brutal-looking, bald-headed Ivan (John Sharian), the man appears to come and go at will. It is while staring at his frightening new acquaintance, that Trevor makes an unforgivable mistake, resulting in a gruesome accident befalling his co-worker Miller (Michael Ironside). Despite his protestations, Trevor is clearly to blame for Miller’s career-ending amputation. Trevor’s private hell now deepens. Ostracized by his fellow workers, eaten away by a devastating guilt, and increasingly paranoid that someone will try to exact revenge for his error, Trevor begins to suspect that nothing that has happened to him is a coincidence. Someone is clearly behind these terrible events, causing them to unfold, someone who wants to harm him, someone who has been leaving him mysterious notes, including an unnerving Hangman game that seems to taunt him, on his refrigerator door. No one is exempt from Trevor’s suspicion. The only two people Trevor trusts are a gritty call-girl (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who has fallen in love with him, and an alluring waitress and single mom (Spanish actress Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) with whom he carries on an almost fairy-tale romance, even as his life disintegrates. Yet even when they begin to threaten him – with talk of mysterious exes and private phone calls that only stoke the flames of his apprehension – Trevor finds himself alone, hunted, without options. He loses his job, and all hope of love. He becomes obsessed with cleanliness, obsessively bleaching the floors and washing his hands with lye. Desperate for a rest, for a peace he simply cannot find, he is no longer sure what is up, what is down, what is real and what is imagined. All has turned to sheer madness. It seems there is no way out of his spiraling descent, until Trevor uncovers a hint that is perhaps the key to what is happening to him. It lies not among the suspects he has been investigating, but is buried in his disquieted psyche.
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