The Machinist, The story of Factory worker who is sleepless from almost year. This psychological thriller Film was released in year 2004. Film was Directed by Brad Anderson and written by Scott Kosar. The Story line Direction and the screenplay of the film was so fresh and unique that critics also appreciate the efforts of the film makers and specially Christian Bale received a appreciation for his performance and his efforts for film. The lead Actor Christian Bale reduces is weight for almost 28 kg Weight (62 Pounds) to achieve body weight around 54-55 Kg (120 Pound). Bale wanted to reduce more to achieve characters look but the doctors film makers and specially the director of film did not let him do due to health concern.
The Film is about the Character “Trevor Reznik” who is working in factory as an machinist and suffering from insomnia, he is so sleepless that he haven’t sleep almost for a year which affects his health which cause adverse effect on his weight. He looks so thin no one can imagine the way he looks. The character of Trevor Reznik is so challenging to play but Christian Bale did his homework so well so that he can feet in to it. The dedication of Christian Bale for this film character looks like he lives the character of Trevor Reznik in movie. Which makes critics and audience to fall in the love of Christian Bale outstanding performance.
Trevor Reznik the man is disturb due to insomnia has many issues at once most of the times he just lives into his own world that makes his behavior weird to others. Due to his sleepless days and nights he started imagining the things which may or may not be exist. He sees the things that no one sees due to which after few so many serious mistakes of him which may cause a life… he involved in arguments with co workers who don’t want him anymore with them and also he gave some unacceptable reasons to his seniors about the mistakes he did which results in to accidents due to which his co worker lost his hand. After all this incidents Trevoe Reznik completely lost his mind due to which he got fired by factory. Story keeps going with clues and hint but the way its written and displayed on screen you will not understand until the climax scene comes in front of you. Despite of very different story-line and without loud or dramatic scene film has so much potential to hold audience till the climax all credits goes to Christian Bale for his best ever performance, Director Brad Anderson, writer Scott Kosar and Screenplay of the Film. If we talked little about the technical part of the film then we must appreciate the editing and the color grading which keep ups maintaining the mood of story-line the film.
Storytelling of the film is so effective and impressive, sometimes it takes the audience on the edge of the seat… Film Starts with a question “Who are you?” which carries the whole story & ends with it, if you haven’t watched this film yet you should watch it. Big thumps up!
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