The Machinist (2004)
(El maquinista)
Country: SP
Technical: col/Super 35 102m
Director: Brad Anderson
Cast: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Michael Ironside, Anna Massey
Synopsis:
A factory worker is haunted by visitations and unable to sleep. When he inadvertently causes an accident at work he becomes convinced of a conspiracy against him. He divides his time between a coffee shop waitress at the airport and a prostitute who shows him genuine love. And he slowly wastes away.
Review:
A mystery whose resolution is both a revelation and a confirmation of myriad indicators along the way. Extremely unsettling to watch, it exudes a sense of foreboding rather in the manner of Jacob's Ladder and The Others. The performances are great, the pictures a bleached-out grey except for the crucial appearances of a red car. Emerging from the theatre one feels one has been inside the head of a madman who has just been cured, an oddly elating impression after all the trauma that has gone before. Truly there is nothing either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
(El maquinista)
Country: SP
Technical: col/Super 35 102m
Director: Brad Anderson
Cast: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Michael Ironside, Anna Massey
Synopsis:
A factory worker is haunted by visitations and unable to sleep. When he inadvertently causes an accident at work he becomes convinced of a conspiracy against him. He divides his time between a coffee shop waitress at the airport and a prostitute who shows him genuine love. And he slowly wastes away.
Review:
A mystery whose resolution is both a revelation and a confirmation of myriad indicators along the way. Extremely unsettling to watch, it exudes a sense of foreboding rather in the manner of Jacob's Ladder and The Others. The performances are great, the pictures a bleached-out grey except for the crucial appearances of a red car. Emerging from the theatre one feels one has been inside the head of a madman who has just been cured, an oddly elating impression after all the trauma that has gone before. Truly there is nothing either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
(El maquinista)
Country: SP
Technical: col/Super 35 102m
Director: Brad Anderson
Cast: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Michael Ironside, Anna Massey
Synopsis:
A factory worker is haunted by visitations and unable to sleep. When he inadvertently causes an accident at work he becomes convinced of a conspiracy against him. He divides his time between a coffee shop waitress at the airport and a prostitute who shows him genuine love. And he slowly wastes away.
Review:
A mystery whose resolution is both a revelation and a confirmation of myriad indicators along the way. Extremely unsettling to watch, it exudes a sense of foreboding rather in the manner of Jacob's Ladder and The Others. The performances are great, the pictures a bleached-out grey except for the crucial appearances of a red car. Emerging from the theatre one feels one has been inside the head of a madman who has just been cured, an oddly elating impression after all the trauma that has gone before. Truly there is nothing either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.