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The Machinist


This film wasn't very high ranking in my mind, admittedly. I've owned it nine months or more and not looked twice at it. Saw it recommended in a few most disturbing/sickening lists but as it was a 15, I didn't have high hopes. I wish now I had checked for it sooner.

Bale plays Trevor Reznik, an insomniac who hasn't slept in over a year. His appearance is something of a manorexic early on. Skeleton thin and heroin junkie looking. There's not a great deal to gross you out but there's a good scene where a fellow machinist gets his hand chewed off by a machine and the lower half of the amputated arm remains trapped, spinning around wildly that I liked somewhat.

This film isn't so much disturbing in the gore hound sense, but pretty gripping in a psychological one. I pretty much guessed it was himself writing the notes, you see the marker pen earlier on as he's searching for a pencil. I didn't realise it was him who was the hit and run driver, but I'd half-guessed what was going on early in with the toothy guy that kept reappearing.

It's a brilliant ride though, hugely recommended, and I'm glad I gave it a chance. It doesn't rate so highly on my most disturbing list as others because I own some FUCKED UP shit, to be frank haha! But this is a genuinely great movie, not to be missed!