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Marie: Trevor, is someone chasing you?

Trevor Reznik: Not yet. But they will when they find out who I am.

When Trevor is struck by the VW Beetle, not only is he not thrown forward along the Beetle's path, he actually lands well behind the point of impact - more than half the length of the parked van. He doesn't bounce off another object that changes his direction. He's just thrown up, then falls rearward above the car. See more...

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The Machinist (2004) - 5 corrections

starring Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh (add more)

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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When Trevor is following the red Firebird, he reads the plate number aloud as "743 CRN", and writes that on a piece of paper he shows the DMV later, yet the plate actually reads "CRN 743". This can be dismissed as the car being an illusion (tho why he'd say and write a number that isn't what he's imagining on the car is a paradox). But the 'mistake' in the film is that the correct number must be the one on paper, as it comes back as belonging to Trevor's own 'totaled' Firebird - yet it is exactly the reverse of the number on his current truck, "NRC 347" - and there's no chance one person would get both of them randomly issued by DMV. They aren't personalized/vanity plates either. [There's no real contradiction here. The car he hallucinated had a different plate number, but the number he wrote down was the same as his old car. It just adds to the general sense of delusion in the movie. As for the plates on his car, it must be a) a coincidence, b) another hallucination of his that were are seeing - maybe that isn't really his plate number, or c) he got personalized plates that just look like regular ones.]

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In the scene where we are introduced to Ivan, Reznik pushes in the car's cigarette lighter. It takes a good 30-40 seconds, I believe, to finish lighting. Later in the movie, when he pushes it in again, it takes only a few seconds to light. [It does take long for the lighter to work, but because hes imagining the meeting, it could have been only a second in real time.]

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When Trevor went to the police station to report his/Ivan's car and they said it was listed as belonging to him, why did the policeman automatically leap to the conclusion that he was committing a crime? Surely a more obvious conclusion would be that he had some form of amnesia caused by the crash, and he was "remembering" his own car's number plate rather than the car that hit him. [The policeman said, "The car you are reporting as having hit you is licensed to your name and you reported it wrecked a year ago. Are you aware that making a false police report is a felony?" - so he wasn't leaping to a conclusion, he was actually alleging something completely new towards Trevor.]