Where is the town of Machine located in Dead Man?
In the movie Dead Man (1995), an accountant travels far to a city named Machine. I have not been able to figure out where it is supposed to be located in-universe. The plot summary on Wikipedia neatly summarizes the only information I've found:
William Blake, an accountant from Cleveland, Ohio, rides by train to the frontier company town of Machine to take up a promised accounting job in the town's metal works.
The only thing I remember is that the train ride from Cleveland is very long, possibly several days, and that Machine is a very bad place.
Top Answer/Comment:
The location of Machine is intentionally left ambiguous in the film. This is the usual Jim Jarmusch's surreal, allegorical approach to the Western genre.
The ambiguity serves the film's dreamlike, allegorical quality. Machine exists as more of a hellish concept; a place where industrial capitalism destroys both nature and humanity, rather than a real location.
Jarmusch treats the film more as a metaphysical/spiritual journey than a literal geographical one.
However, the few clues in the movie suggest it could be somewhere in the Pacific Northwest:
- The long train journey west from Cleveland indicates a destination far into the American frontier;
- The landscapes shown (after Blake leaves Machine) feature forests and terrain consistent with the Pacific Northwest;
- The film was shot in locations including Oregon, Nevada, and California.
상단 광고의 [X] 버튼을 누르면 내용이 보입니다