The Pink Floyd Song That Opens The Machinist (And Why It Fits Perfectly)

The opening credits of Brad Anderson’s 2004 psychological thriller The Machinist are scored with Pink Floyd’s “On the Turning Away” — a deep cut from their 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason. The song isn’t one of Floyd’s biggest hits, but it’s a deliberately somber, slow-burning track about apathy and the willful ignoring of suffering.

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