Feelings of watching "The Machinist"

Dejon 2022-03-19 09:01:03

A model of horror and suspense, it can make people nervous and follow the plot. The whole film uses the depressive atmosphere of the main gray tone, even the background music, but it is very exciting. If you look at it carefully, you can find that there are a lot of foreshadowings in the film to reveal the final outcome: the male protagonist is thin (caused by restless sleep and eating after the hit and escape, and sleeplessness at night), and wash his hands with bleach every time (indicating that his hands are full Blood), multiple shots of car lighters (the cause of the accident when the male protagonist was driving), the hanging pattern of the sticky note (the prostitute said that all runaways should hang themselves), the mother's day poster at the airport (foretelling the mother and child in the accident) , "Highway 666" haunted house crashed into a licensed child (directly predicting a car accident), multiple shots fixed at 1:30 (time of hitting the child to death), the male protagonist's fake hit-and-run case (directly insinuating the male protagonist himself) In the hit-and-run accident, I became a victim this time), and Aiwen, who always appears next to the male protagonist, should be the incarnation of his conscience. In fact, he is schizophrenia, reminding him who he is and what he has done. .

After all, the hero is just a frightened child, poor victim. In fact, it can be seen that the male protagonist is a kind-hearted person who loves his mother very much. This was also mentioned in the dialogue with the airport attendant in the film (although this is just his fantasy). However, he did not expect that his negligence caused an accident and hit and killed a little boy, and then he was afraid of hitting and escaping. This incident has become the shadow of the male protagonist for a year, but what is interesting is that he chose to dust this memory in his heart. It seems that the entire accident has been forgotten. . Forgetting like amnesia, I don't know what kind of mental illness it belongs to, but I believe there must be some in reality. In the end, I saw Bell curled up in a corner and wept bitterly. It hurts a little bit. The truth is so cruel! After surrendering, the poor man could finally sleep a little at ease.

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The Machinist quotes

  • Trevor Reznik: You know so little about me. What if I turn into a werewolf or something?

    Stevie: I'll buy you a flea collar.

  • Trevor Reznik: How they bitin', Reynolds?