The Machinist

You’re going straight to Hell on Route 666!

“The Machinist “ is a trip in your mind, in your memory, in the life’s essence. “I am the other” said Rimbaud. But who? A ghost? A shadow? A body? A toy? The essence of movie is the relation with the world and the form of honesty.

Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale) is a machinist who has had chronic insomnia for a year and who was felling guilt about something in past.A movie about intense character study and internal war against mind and soul.

Reznik does not know what is wrong, and carries on working as a machinist. His alarming appearance and behaviour cause his co-workers to shy away from him, they eventually turn on him after he is involved in an accident that costs a man his left arm.No one at the factory admits knowing “Ivan”, however, and there are no records that he was ever an employee. That’s how the journey of self-search starts.

Bale gave his best perfromance till date .The soul of the movie lies in Bale and he gives all and all .He starved himself for over four months prior to filming, as his character needed to look drastically thin.His eating consisted of one cup of coffee and an apple each day (approximately 275 calories).He lost 28 kg , reducing his body mass to 54 kg. Bale wanted to go down to 45 kg but the filmmakers would not let him due to health concerns. He later regained the mass, plus an additional 18 kg through weightlifting and proper eating, in preparation for his role in Batman Begins.