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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.