Trevor Reznik, played by Christian Bale in "The Machinist," is a 121 pound man who suffers from the psychosis of insomnia. Before the filming of the movie began, Bale had to lose more than 60 pounds to play the role. Reznik is a machinist in a factory who is a union worker and knows all the rules and principles of an operating factory. He could be annoying to the workers because of how he wants the rules to be carried out. Reznik lets in two women into his life, Stevie and Marie. Stevie is a prostitute who knows something is going on with him, but Marie is a then one he spends more time with and also Marie’s daughter. Reznik is obsessed in writing on post-it notes about how his weight is slowly dropping. After an accident that occurred in the factory, Reznik’s co-worker hand was chopped off, which led to the separation of Reznik witch his other co-workers. Reznik starts to believe that there are people out to get him, and starts to see a phantom employee “Ivan”, later as Reznik starts to look for the plans and places of Ivan whereabouts, he starts to understand where his insomnia came from.
Trevor Reznik is a machinist in a factory who suffers from insomnia. Reznik starts to doubt his sanity and leave post-it notes that later he forgets what they mean, after seeing hallucinations, his perception of reality becomes twisted. He's later haunted by a co-worker that no ones else can see and after trying to find him, he realizes that he is the man who killed an innocent child and later confesses to a hit and run. After being put into a holding cell, he finally sleeps for the first time in a year. Insomnia is a sleep disorder that prevents people from sleeping. Insomnia can described as having trouble getting to sleep, or having trouble staying asleep. Insomnia can be acute and last only for a few days, but if it lasts longer, then it becomes chronic and that becomes a problem. Things that can lead to having insomnia are, sleeping du...