10 Amazing Movie Plot Twists That Never Get Talked About

One of the greatest actors of his generation, Christian Bale, is one of one in what he psychologically and physically commits to his roles, and a film only benefits from this, as you'd expect. 

The Machinist is instantly recognisable to many who haven't even seen the film due to the sheer shock of seeing the Academy Award-winning actor in such an emancipated and malnourished state. However, the real shock should come from the picture's twist. 

Being eaten alive by guilt before he is swallowed whole, Bale's insomniac industrial worker, Trevor Reznik, begins to spiral down the rabbit hole of madness as the evil actions of one event from his past begin to catch up to him. 

We see towards the film's final moments that Trevor finally works out the hangman answer that had been eluding him for so long, spelling 'KILLER'. The answer revealed that 'Ivan' was nothing but an imaginary concoction of guilt that offered Trevor an alibi of a hit and run he had committed a year prior, and that many of those he would interact with in his everyday life were never real, only his mind playing tricks on him from a lack of food, sleep and morality.

Reznik's decision to run from his crime as opposed to confronting it reaches a breaking point where he finally accepts his guilt and confesses to the police. Director Brad Anderson's decision to have the character do so finally allows him an escape from the warped and twisted purgatory his mind has trapped him within.