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Trevor Reznik is the titular main protagonist of the 2004 psychological thriller film The Machinist.
He was portrayed by Christian Bale, who also played Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, Ace Novelty in Moville Mysteries, Walter Wade Jr. in Shaft, Raskolnikov in the 2000 film adaptation of Crime and Punishment, and Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder.
History[]
Trevor Reznik is an insomniac machinist who has lost a severe amount of weight by the time the film begins. Trevor has a relationship with a prostitute named Stevie, who appears to genuinely care for him, and is friendly with Maria, a waitress at the airport diner he frequents. He meets Ivan, a supposed new co-worker, and is distracted by him while helping another co-worker, Miller, with a broken machine. The distraction causes the machine to accidentally start, causing Miller's arm to be cut off in the process. Their other co-workers distance themselves from Trevor, who is informed by his supervisor that there is no Ivan on the factory's payroll.
Maria told Trevor to go with her son, Nicholas, to a amusement park. Trevor and Nicholas take the ride inside of the 666 ride, which escalates in Nicholas having a seizure. Trevor keeps finding notes in his apartment that gradually spell out the word "killer". Originally thinking Miller is responsible (having found one note lacking the first letter in "killer" and assuming it to be "m"), he confronts him at his house, only to realize that Ivan is responsible. Trevor follows Ivan's red Firebird and catches the license number, then voluntarily runs out into traffic to be injured in a hit-and-run in order to report the car and find Ivan. He is told, however, that the Firebird is his own and that he reported it wrecked a year before. Trevor escapes the now suspicious police officers to Stevie's apartment, only to be kicked out by her after seeing a picture of Ivan and his friend Reynolds in her apartment (leading him to assume he's Stevie's ex-boyfriend), despite her telling Trevor that it's him in the picture.
Trevor returns to the airport diner and doesn’t find Maria, but another waitress who claims that she served him ever since he started coming there, and that there is no Maria who works there. He goes back to his apartment and finds Ivan leading Nicholas into the building. Rushing to his apartment, he finds Ivan shaving in his bathroom. Ivan implies that he killed Nicholas and that his body is in the bathtub. Enraged, Trevor attacks Ivan and apparently slits his throat, while finding no body in the bathtub. He covers Ivan's body in a rug and drives it to a nearby pier. He throws the rug onto the rocks but no body falls out, and Ivan reveals himself to be alive. Returning home, Trevor realizes that Ivan is a figment of his own guilty conscience; one year ago, Trevor ran over Nicholas accidentally after taking his eyes off the road, which was witnessed by Maria. Despite not getting caught or arrested, his guilt resulted in him losing sleep and becoming emaciated, while also repressing the memory of that day.
The next morning, Trevor arranges for his belongings and furniture to be donated and leaves his apartment. He considers going to the airport and fleeing, but instead goes to the police station and turns himself in. He is escorted to a jail cell and finally sleeps for the first time in a year.
Trivia[]
- To prepare himself for the role, Christian went on a brutal diet eating only a can of tuna and one apple and drinking only coffee and water. After finishing the film, he had to put on weight so he can get ready for his role as Batman in "Batman Begins".