10 Great Films With Soul-Destroying Endings

This film is most commonly brought up when talking about Christian Bale’s horrific weight loss in preparation for the role, dropping 60 pounds over a few months by only consuming cigarettes, coffee and an apple every day.

However that is not the only depressing thing about this film! A skeletal Bale portrays Trevor, a factory worker with chronic insomnia who appears to be slowly losing his mind.

Haunting notes appear in his fridge, showing a slow game of hangman. He worries he is being tailed by a man named Ivan who nobody has ever heard of. The only respite from horror Trevor gets is spending time with Maria, a waitress he builds a relationship with, and her young son.

As his mind becomes increasingly muddled, he drives out to the restaurant where Maria works, only to be told they have never had an employee by that name. Distraught, he thinks he sees Maria’s son, Nicholas, being kidnapped by Ivan and tails them but Nicholas disappears.

It is revealed that a year prior, Trevor was involved in a hit and run in which he killed Nicholas as his mother watched on and that Ivan was a manifestation of his guilt.

The sweet mother and son duo were only figments of his imagination when the reality was too awful to bear.