Analysis Of The Movie The Machinist

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The movie “The Machinist” was a psychological thriller film first written by Scott Kosar then directed by Brad Anderson, it was first on air in 2004. The main character of the film was named Trevor Reznik, who suffered from a psychological disease called insomnia, leads to obsessive compulsions to write down things on a note-it and leave it on the fridge door as a reminder and unusual hallucinations of a new co-worker that cause life threatening and health harming problems for himself and along the people around him. He is hunted by brief flashes of memories such as his car cigarette lighter takes a menacing air, and a mysterious game with note-its, depicting a note-it puzzle game with a “hangman”. Movie starts with …show more content…
Hit and run is a serious crime no matter what part of the country it happens, especially when the victim was a young kid, whom has a bright future ahead of him, whom haven’t even got a chance to start living. Whom was too young to leave the world. Judging from Trevor’s behavior, its heartbreaking, but the really reason beneath that is education makes a big difference along people. The movie shows the effects of traumatic events and how one can choose to repress and forget, but what balance this is your morality. “a little guilt goes a long way”. How do you make your choice, do you just move on and act like nothing happen or do you tend to right the wrongs. In my personal view, your education level and your morality has a direct proportion relationship. The more you were taught the better chance of you know what’s right and wrong and better chance of right the …show more content…
He was never given a path to go on to a different path. That would be a totally different life, where people gives you their true concerns and advice you to seek medical treatment when you are feeling down or having obvious physical change, instead you calling you names and humiliating you in front of the whole world. Where you get to go home to a wife who’s willing to stay up all night make sure you eat health. On the other hand, maybe we couldn’t just blame him, he was surrounding by people who doesn’t see and treat him with respect, isn’t so sad that occurred to no one to advise him to treat medical treatments? People around him was too numb to show emotions, to care, to help and not to mention support, they were all too numb to feel. And that caused a young life to suffer. Environment plays a very important role on our psychological health status, people we hang out with, places we go to, affect us way more than we could possibly imagine. what I respect him the most is he is a warm person, he was never trying to harm anyone in any case, he tries to make the best out of the worst situations. He was carrying, and he has basic self-respect that he was man enough to admit what he has done, and he is willing to pay for what’s worth in exchange of a peaceful

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