Inside the house, the man used a rug to roll up a corpse with great effort. It was then taken to the cliffs by the sea to throw the body, and just as he was about to throw the body, a patrolman approached him from a distance. The man hurriedly threw the blanket down, but the blanket got stuck between the rocks. He stepped forward and threw it again, but the blanket rolled down and spread out.
Trevor is a mechanic who operates machine tools in a factory and dares to stand up for his fellow workers, so he was blacklisted by his superiors. His spirit is often in a state of dissociation, and it seems that he will fall asleep at any time, but he has suffered insomnia for a year for unknown reasons and cannot have normal sleep. He hired prostitutes, the other party has an ex-husband, but he is still very tender to each other. He goes to the fast food restaurant at the airport every day after get off work, chats with the waitress there, and gradually develops a good relationship.
One day, after get off work, he met a sturdy black man who claimed to be a newcomer to the factory, replacing a worker who was on leave due to a work-related injury. The next day, when Trevor was at work, he saw the black man he had seen yesterday making a throat-slashing gesture at him. He was stunned, in a trance, and touched the start button of the machine next to him. A worker was debugging a machine tool and his left hand was broken. Trevor explained to his superiors, but the superiors said that there was no such person at all, and that there were no workers on work injury leave. Trevor couldn't believe it. He felt that they were lying to him. After get off work, he met the black man again and found a picture of him fishing with a co-worker in his wallet, which made Trevor even more feel that he was being treated by the co-workers. persecution. Later, he tried to show the photo to his co-workers, but found nothing in his wallet.
Trevor got on well with the waitress, he always tipped a lot, and the waitress once invited him to the playground with her and her son. On the way, the waitress picks up a phone call, and Trevor takes her son to play a Route 666 horror project that shows a car accident and a fork in the road between hell and redemption, and the two take a fork in the road. The waitress's son suddenly rolled his eyes, foamed at the mouth, and fainted. Trevor takes him out for help, and the waitress says it's not his fault and that her son will recover quickly and forget about it.
Trevor was driving one day and saw a black man driving in front. He followed, wrote down the black man's license plate number, and vaguely saw another person in the car. He went to the police station the next day to inquire about the owner of the car, but was told that the car was not involved in illegal activities and could not provide relevant information. Trevor suddenly rushed out on the road, was hit by a car, and then limped to the police station and got information about the car, but was told that the owner of the car was himself, and he was in a year The car was previously declared scrapped. Forced to flee to avoid being arrested on a false report charge, Trevor escaped into the subway's sewers and took the left at a fork in the road.
Trevor finds a prostitute and receives a gentle treat, only to find the black man's boots and the picture of the black man fishing with his co-worker in her home. He was furious and scolded that everyone was lying to him, but the prostitute told him that he was the one who was fishing with his co-workers in the photo.
Trevor drives home and finds the black man entering his house with the waitress's son, and he finds it all incomprehensible. He followed the house, too, and the black man told him the boy was dead, and Trevor fought him and killed him by slitting his throat. He went to the beach to throw the body, and the blanket rolled down and it was empty. The patrolman who came was actually the black man he had just killed.
Trevor looked at the black man who reappeared in the mirror, looking towards the bloody refrigerator and the torture of who you are. When he opened the refrigerator, it was full of rotting fish heads, and he remembered everything.
Trevor is a normal person. One day, he was driving a red car on the road where he could see the water tower. When he passed an intersection, he was lighting a cigarette with a cigarette lighter. The number 66 pendant hanging in front of the car was right and left. Shaking, he bumped into a boy. The boy's mother dashed over, and he stopped the car, then started it again desperately, and hit-and-run. In the following year, he constantly condemned himself and was judged by morals in his heart. He lost weight rapidly and kept losing sleep. He hallucinates that black people are just characters in his mind, an avatar of himself, and he blames everything on him.
I haven't seen such a psychological film for a long time, it reminds me of Stay, this is not a film about split personalities, the black character is just what Trevor used to escape the blame for the truth, not another display and protection of his split self my own. This film is actually a story about a person who runs away after a car accident and keeps blaming himself so that he has mental problems to protect himself. Watching such psychological films, you should keep in mind one thing: the psychological and spiritual problems of the protagonist are all for his self-protection. method. The split personality is to better cope with external stimuli and injuries. In this film, Trevor has hallucinations and imagines the role of black people to make himself feel free from guilt and not hurt his heart all day long. This is the spiritual self-protection of people. natural method, even if it makes you forget where it all came from.
The plot of the film is very simple. It seems a bit exaggerated and extreme that self-blame has caused such a serious mental problem, and it can only be explained by the protagonist's own sentence. There's a lot of detail in the film, a note written by Trevor himself, inquiring about his identity and doing crossword puzzles, his extra tip to the waitress and the waitress' attitude towards him and the waitress saying that his son will get better soon And forget it's not his fault, blah blah blah all mentally explainable. It reminds people of the "Mulholland Drive" of the gods, and dreams are used to compensate for everything. "The Mechanic" is also the same, the inducement of all psychological problems is the self-protection of the spirit.
The film is a real plot, suspense, crime, and thriller. For the first time, I feel that the classification of the film is so reasonable. Some people may describe it as neurotic, but it's really too scary, the switching of the camera, the soundtrack, the color grading that is so cold to black and white, the performance of the skinny Bell, skinny, really weird, this is the real bump You Zhi, others show muscles, you show bones. The thrilling effect of the film feels really good. This is the case with psychological thrillers. This is the first time I feel the horror of this type of horror. I didn't find it too scary to watch "The Shining" and "The Conjuring" before, I don't know why . Perhaps the immersive retrospective suspense of "The Mechanic" is more fascinating.
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