Thanks to a local paper, I managed to get to see the new Christian Bale movie - The Machinist - for free today. For anyone who hasn't heard anything about the movie it’s a thriller/mystery, and the basic premise is this: Bale's character (Reznik) hasn't slept for a year and is slowly going insane. The plot unfolds with quite a few twists and turns, and at first, it is not even clear where the movie is going, but everything ties together very neatly in the end.
Various adverts and TV slots that I've seen about it say that it's a movie for fans of "Fight Club" and "Memento" and I'd have to say that's right (those being my two favourite movies)."The Machinist" combines the paranoia of "Memento" with the disjointed sense of time, place and identity present in both movies. The plot has suspense and intrigue. It's worth seeing if only to witness the physical transformation that Bale went through to play the part, dropping down to a waif-like eight and a half stone - which really does look quite repulsive!
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