In Christopher Nolan's 2002 "White Night Chase", police officer Will Dormer (played by Al Pacino) is a man who has lost his sleep. He and his partner Hap came to the "Flounder Fishing Capital" of Alaska to investigate a murder case here.
However, the experienced Dormer accidentally killed Hap in the process of hunting down the murderer Finch (played by Robin Williams), and all this happened to be seen by the murderer. In the subsequent investigation process, the murderer used this as a condition to trade with Dormer, and Dormer fell into a dilemma. The situation.
The film was adapted from the Norwegian film "Insomnia" in 1997. It is worth mentioning that this is Nolan's only film that has completely used "outsiders" as screenwriters. Most of the works that we are familiar with, such as "Interstellar", "Inception", "Fatal Magic", "Shards of Memory", are written by Nolan's younger brother-Jonathan Nolan (this younger brother has also made American TV series) "Western World").
The screenwriter of this film, Hilary Seitz, has been criticized by fans as the screenwriter of an atypical Nolan film.
There are no complicated character lines and story lines in the film, and Nolan's skill in multi-line editing has not been properly reflected. So we focused more on the performance of the two leading actors. In this film, Al Pacino's interpretation is superb, and the inner struggles of the characters are expressed real and complicated.
In the early years, Al Pacino tried similar roles, such as "The Wire of Fire" in 1995. He played the violent and unruly police chief, traveling between the good and the evil.
Robin Williams' acting skills are also impeccable, but Robin, who has always been warm and friendly on screen, plays such a lonely murderer, which makes people a little caught off guard. In the last scene where the murderer sinks to the bottom of the lake, as the face fades away, you will suddenly feel a kind of pity for this desolate and love-less murderer (here we express deep nostalgia for Robin's passing).
Insomnia, people with insomnia, in the white night, are mostly troubled by the positive and negative aspects of human nature.
As Ellie said:
"A good policeman can't sleep because there is no clue to the case.
A bad policeman can't sleep because his conscience is disturbed."
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