I like the Dostoyevsky references!

Rating: 8/10 (18 July 2005)

I loved the choice of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" as the book that Trevor was reading. Dostoevsky himself suffered from epilepsy as did Prince Myshkin, the main character in the idiot. This explains the source of the epileptic fit that the kid had on the route 666 ride.
The movie also reminds me a lot of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" where the protagonist commits a crime and is then riddled with guilt which drives him to the brink of insanity. Like Trevor, he has a lot of hallucinations and it gets to the point where he can no longer tell what is real and what is not.
I liked the movie a lot. But I think the lengths to which Bale went to play this character was excessive. My God, it looked so real it's scary.