Antoine Syverain Photo 26 B 20 Feb 2014 The machinist essay Trevor Reznick is a factory worker who kills a little

boy in a hit and run driving his red car. After the incident, he is has't slept in a year and lost a tremendous amount of weight. His memory begins to fade since he cannot remember the incident. His friends at work do not recognize him and began to hate him after Reznick caused another accident that caused a co-worker to lose one arm. Reznick is trapped in his own world and the director shows this with the use of low-key lighting and frame within a frame in specific scenes throughout the whole movie. Reznick killed a kid a year a go and seems to have forgotten it. Also the audience has no idea what he did. However, we do know something is up with him. When Reznick washes his face in the beginning of the story, the director uses the mirror inside a bathroom with little light to increase the dramatic experience, making it very tense in the audience. At work, Reznik is called in his boss's office and begin to question his health. His employers think that he is on drugs. Reznick tenses as he explains that he is ok. This is another scene the director applies a frame within a frame to increase the dramatic experience in relation to Reznick. Reznick encounters a new co-worker who calls himself Yvan. Yvan distracted Reznick while working and he caused an accident. Trevor is called to his boss's office again and there the dramatic situation was turn up even more. The Dramatic experiences increase as the film goes alone, especially when Reznick ran away from the authorities and he is in the sewers. The whole screen became black with one little frame in the middle wit Reznick inside it. At this point, his begins to lose all his friends, even Stevie who was starting to grow even fonder of him. At the end of the story, When Reznick turns himself in, he is taken to a clean jail cell with white walls. Inside he falls asleep and the director does not apply the frame within a frame to demonstrate that he is free from all this burden. !