An eerie, psychological horror/thriller

Rating: Null/10 (12 September 2016)

A unique movie that has a crazy plot twist, and unusual ending. The Machinist is about a man named Trent Reznik who is an extremely skinny insomniac, who claims to have not slept for a year straight. He keeps having strange delusions where this strange man dressed in all black, who has a southern accent, and deformed hand is following him. It's not concretely expressed if this man is real or fictional. He seems to be an aspect of Trent's personality, so possibly fake. But, this man is following him, and running him off of the road, so Trent is weary of him.
One day, an accident happens in the industrial shop where Trent works, and a man's arm is cut off. Trent is being blamed for this incident due to having of fallen asleep on the job. Also the machine that Trent was supposed to of been operating wasn't in his full control. While this man was struggling with the machine Trent had a delusion of the deformed man smiling at him, suggesting that this was intentional. When Trent is questioned by his supervisors, he tells them of this man, and they tell him that no one works there with that description. Then Trent starts a cycle of seeing this man places, and having no one else see him. At the end of the movie Trent slits this man's throat, and rids himself of the hassle this man has put him through. The end of the movie shows Trent in a picture that this man was once the subject in. This makes the viewer question who Trent really is. Overall, I enjoyed it, and had an exciting time filling in the blanks, and coming up with my own interpretation of Trent's madness. The theme of the movie seems to be on the concept of self awareness, and instilling trust in others, when we can't find it in ourselves.