Sleepless Dreams
Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale is a haunted man. Of horrifyingly thin visage, tormented by illusions indistinguishable from reality, he has not slept in a year. He tries to come to terms with the present – but strange visitations, bodies in the freezer that do not exist, chased by cars that belong to him, visits to the coffee shop and the lady there, and her son and which of them is real – it is all difficult to make out what is reality and what are, well, the dreams of The Machinist. This is a role that has absolutely no resemblance to anything that I have seen from Christian Bale, and clearly shows just how great an actor this Hollywood find-of-the-decade is. A cathartic movie, that makes clear that the Machinist did sleep at times, and all the visitations were really about his darkest fears and greatest regrets
14.5/20
Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale is a haunted man. Of horrifyingly thin visage, tormented by illusions indistinguishable from reality, he has not slept in a year. He tries to come to terms with the present – but strange visitations, bodies in the freezer that do not exist, chased by cars that belong to him, visits to the coffee shop and the lady there, and her son and which of them is real – it is all difficult to make out what is reality and what are, well, the dreams of The Machinist. This is a role that has absolutely no resemblance to anything that I have seen from Christian Bale, and clearly shows just how great an actor this Hollywood find-of-the-decade is. A cathartic movie, that makes clear that the Machinist did sleep at times, and all the visitations were really about his darkest fears and greatest regrets
14.5/20
