The Machinist (2004)

Christian Bale (American Psycho and more recently Batman Begins) stars as Trevor, a factory worker who, for reasons unknown to even himself, has been unable to sleep for over a year, but as the film builds to it's revelatory climax, the reason's for his insomnia start to become clearer.

The Machinist has hint's of Jacobs Ladder, Memento, Dark City and The Sixth Sense, and like those movies, this too is a superb piece of film-making with a shattering denouement.Bales performance is method acting to it's extreme, he lost an incredible 65lbs to achieve the skeletal frame of Trevor Teznik, and his tortured performance must be commended.

There are clues to Trevors past but you will have to pay close attention, and like The Sixth Sense this is one film you will want to re-watch in a 'new light'
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