Talk:The Machinist

message: Kafka. There's original research and there is calling a pipe a pipe. 71.121.59.213 (talk) 21:30, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Influences

message: Is Trevor Reznik a reference to Trent Reznor, or is that name just coincidence? (clem 22:22, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That thought crosssed my mind too. Cnwb 23:57, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

text: If someone has a direct source for this, please cite it. Deleting the "item" until then. - DynSkeet *  Talk 16:14, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

text: IMDB says "The Machinist's writer, Scott Kossar, loves "Nine Inch Nails" and his original script had a quote from their lyrics on the first page. He always wanted the soundtrack to be written by NIN, but the director didn't want the movie to go in that direction. Nine Inch Nails' only official member is Trent Reznor, thus the name of Christian Bale's Character, Trevor Reznik." But of course, this might not be true. I just thought I'd throw it out there. 71.219.228.204 00:51, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: YES YES YES OF COURSE ITS RELATED 24.13.39.188 (talk) 23:44, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Trent Reznor

message: Added self-contradictory tag.  The first paragraph says it was all filmed in Spain, but the category is Films shot in Mexico.   --Quasipalm 03:40, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have changed the category based on this. 68.39.174.238 15:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradictory

message: It seems to me that Trevor is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, rather than Primary Insomnia. Does anyones else think this?
No it is not paranoid schizophrenia in the clinical sense. He does not have a split personality. Subconsciously, it is the guilt of the dead boy that has induced this condition of primary insomnia which in turn reflects in his disparaging weight loss. The screenwriter uses the psychological device of the doppelgganger to reflect the chasm between the real and the unreal as perceived by the protagonist Trevor. Creativemultimediaartist (talk) 07:54, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schizophrenia? 

message: The page says that Trevor is "almost afraid to touch" it. I think this is false, e.g. in the scene where
Trevor first meets Ivan, there is no hesitation - the popping out of the lighter is just a dramatic effect. The same holds for the scene just after the meeting in which Trevor and the supervisors discuss the first incident at the mill (The guy loosing his left arm). I propose removing the sentance about the
lighter, and just create a new paragraph with the following. Any objections ? (If not, I'll do so soon.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bzthib (talk • contribs) 01:24, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  car cigarette lighter 

message: Was suprised to see that nothing had been written about the seemingly unexplained parts in the movie. The specific one is when Reznik is looking at his photo album and there is a picture of him and his mother at the carnival almost exactly like the marie and nicholas picture. What does this have to do with the story? And what's with the ending, where's he's driving into the light or whatever? Just wondering. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by RuckZuck72 (talk • contribs) 04:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Trevor may have run with his car into a lorry and lost his memory. – 87.166.199.23 (talk) 20:24, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unexplained parts 

message: Duplicity: every scene has one object of red in it.--amybedow--  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.206.236 (talk) 03:28, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicity?