The Machinist (2004)

Male anorexia is a severely underrated syndrome, an overlooked menace to the health of America’s best-looking men that is brought to light in The Machinist (2004). The light trained upon this secret scourge is fittingly murky and menacing, true to the nightmare existence of a skin-and-bones bro who has so misplaced the ability to differentiate altered reality from suppressed memory that he cannot drive his car or run his factory drill without being awash in bloody visions of mayhem and torn flesh. How can a young, socially active boy in such a condition be expected to remember the necessity of stuffing his tendon-snapping face with a source of protein? The Machinist: gaunt entertainment that is simultaneously nightmarish and oddly nourishing to the soul.