The Machinist

[JazmenFlowers]

I watched this movie last night and it is seriously f*cked up, but really good. I kind of caught on to what was happening halfway through, but didn't expect what was actually going on. anyone else seen this? thoughts?

[BlackWidow]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

I watched this movie last night and it is seriously f*cked up, but really good. I kind of caught on to what was happening halfway through, but didn't expect what was actually going on. anyone else seen this? thoughts?

Great Movie..Christian is a friend of mine!

[irishgrl]

I always thought this movie had Charles Bronson in it? I must be thinking of another movie....
edit: yes I was thinking of The Mechanic. duh.

about this movie, I read the entry from Wikipedia, and it reminds me of Angel Heart with Mickey Rourke and Al Pacino.

Rourke plays Harry Angel, a seedy private investigator in 1950s' New York City. Louis Cyphre (De Niro) hires Angel to locate Johnny Favorite, a popular big band crooner who was severely injured in World War II and hospitalized with profound brain damage. Cyphre discovers that the hospital falsified Favorite's records, and wants Angel to find out what happened, as Favorite owed a debt to Cyphre.

But there's more to the case than initially appears, as the debt in question is Favorite's soul, and Cyphre is not human – his very name, Louis Cyphre, is a play on words, sounding like Lucifer when said out loud. His true objective is strongly hinted at by the "egg scene," in which Cyphre eats, with great gusto, an egg – after remarking that in many cultures it represents the soul.

Angel travels to New Orleans as he digs deeper into the case, delving into a world of voodoo and satanism and growing increasingly worried for his own safety and sanity. As Harry Angel discovers more and more of the truth behind Favorite's fate, he experiences flashbacks of satanic rituals, a black mass and a string of murders. He meets Epiphany Proudfoot (Bonet), daughter of a voodoo practitioner who knew Favorite. Notable is the film's disturbing twist ending, in which Angel must finally face the fact that he is Johnny Favorite himself, having abducted and, through a satanic ritual, taken the place and identity of the original Harry Angel, a soldier returning from the war whom he (Favorite) randomly picked off the street. Favorite had promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for worldly success, but then tried to renege by taking the place of another. It is only after he realizes his true identity that Cyphre can claim what is his: Favorite's very soul. Over the end credits, there is a lengthy sequence of Angel descending in a rackety old elevator, apparently on his way to Hell.

Rourke's effective performance anchors the film. DeNiro offers a memorable performance in an atypical role, as a refined but palpably sinister character reportedly based on Martin Scorsese's mannerisms. Charlotte Rampling and blues singer Brownie McGhee are memorable in their rather small roles.