The Machinist : An explanation of the movie (my take)
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I agree, wholeheartedly.
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Nicely interpreted-- right on target.
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Nice post! You have a great thoery, but I don't think he's dead the whole movie. He had only problem with his mind, and the duality in the movie was fighting with his mind. And at the end he finally told the police about the accident.
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Agreed, that's what I've written above, I think you misread.
An explanation of the movie (my take)
The Route 666 ride simply tells his story. The car crash, hand incident, mother on a child's grave, whorehouse and the actual accident with the boy. Of course he doesn't take the "right" (turning himself in) and goes to his personal hell. The car they're riding in is red too.
Ivan is the personification of his guilty conscious and that's why he can never catch up and settle with him. He tells him the boy is dead, because Trevor certainly tried to convince himself the accident wasn't fatal. Moreover 1:30 was the time of the accident. All details around it reoccur constantly through flashbacks.
I have to disagree with the theory that he's already dead the whole time. I don't think that's one of those movies, where the main hero is dead but he doesn't know it (Sixth sense). Occam's razor rules this theory out.
Someone pointed out the many Dostoyevsky references and there's no doubt this film was highly influenced by Crime and Punishment and by the author in it's psychological depth. If I am to sum it up in one sentence it would be: A man coming to terms with his guilt after a manslaughter.