The American version of "Insomnia" - "Insomnia", directed by the great director Christopher Nolan, starred by the international superstar Al Pacino, such a super luxurious lineup is the guarantee of quality. But this movie is Nolan's least existential movie and one of the most underrated.
Nolan's evaluation of himself is "like my predecessor Hitchcock, not only a director, but also a person with the ability to imagine." This film continues Nolan's consistent style, using fragmented fragments to organize the story and explore the abyss of human nature from the psychology of the characters. Al Pacino lost the domineering and edge of his godfather and played an old policeman suffering from insomnia. It vividly depicts depression, melancholy and entanglement.
Take a few snippets.
Insomnia tells the story of a long night.
A small town in Alaska, USA.
Extreme day.
Girl Kate's body was found in a garbage dump.
Naked, not sexually assaulted, with multiple scars on his body. The cause of death was diagnosed as suffocation by the medical examiner. The direct suspect in the case was the boyfriend of the girl who did not have an alibi.
Inspector Domo, played by Al Pacino, is an honest police officer from Los Angeles with more than 30 years of detective experience. He and his partner Happ went here to investigate the murder, and the local young female police officer Allie was responsible for cooperation.
The case is not complicated. With years of experience in detectives, Inspector Domo quickly ruled out the girl's boyfriend as the suspect, and managed to lead to the real murderer of the case. But due to the mistakes of the local police, the murderer escaped. Inspector Domo accidentally kills his partner while catching the killer.
However, Inspector Domo did not choose to tell the truth, he wanted to cover up his mistakes and lead the finger on the escaped murderer.
The story really begins here. Inspector Domo suffers from insomnia.
In the long white night, the sun is pervasive and everywhere. It keeps evil from hiding, and has to retreat into dark corners.
I have to admire Al Pacino's acting skills.
There was helplessness and helplessness in his eyes.
The little light that penetrated through the gap burned his heart all the time.
The escaped murderer took the initiative to call and find Inspector Domo. It turned out that when he was running away, he saw the detective beat his partner to death.
"Why don't you tell people that you fired the gun"
"I mean, it was an accident, wasn't it?"
"I'm just trying to make you understand my situation"
"I'm not a murderer like you"
Light and darkness are fighting.
Here is where sin meets. When the bottom line of human nature is touched, it will soon be broken down.
"Think about other Kates, if you are punished, who will uphold their justice?"
Just find a scapegoat for Kate's case. The detective can go back to Los Angeles to continue being his cop, and the murderer can continue writing his detective novels with peace of mind.
Will the Inspector sink?
resignedly. The detective chooses to cooperate with the killer. In order to preserve his lifelong career, in order to continue to have the opportunity to punish sin.
The murderer regards the crime as justice, and the detective uses the name of justice to cover up the crime
The bottom line of human nature has been penetrated.
After that, Domo continued to lose sleep. The foggy day kept popping up in his mind, and he kept thinking of his partner. Is he going to tell the truth?
He has no right to choose when to tell the truth. He's a liar, a murderer, and he'll be remembered forever.
But can the truth be covered up? The truth is like the sunshine in Alaska, from morning to night, people cannot escape.
"A good cop can't sleep because of a sudden rush, and a bad cop can't sleep because of conscience and self-blame."
Is the detective a good cop or a bad cop?
His eyes became more and more confused, and the hallucinations that appeared became more and more serious. Finally, in the hotel, the detective and the irrelevant hotel owner said something that had been tangled in their hearts for a long time.
A year ago, in Los Angeles, the detective handled a murder case. The suspect is suspected of brutally killing an 8-year-old boy. But there was not enough evidence, and the jury even raised a well-founded question. With years of experience in detectives, the detective identified the suspect as the murderer. The detective took a blood sample from the child's body and planted it in the suspect's apartment, leading to his conviction.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs found suspicious points in the case. The night before the hunt for the killer in Alaska, the detective's partner decides to clarify the truth with the Department of the Interior.
If the partner comes forward to clarify, then the detective is bound to be implicated. The cases he has broken for more than 30 years are all convicted by his words and his judgment. If he's taken down, those scumbags will return to the stage to do evil again.
The detective killed his partner, was it intentional or unintentional? This point, even the detective himself did not understand.
At the end of the film, the detective pulls back from the precipice and goes to hunt down the real murderer of the case. In the end, the murderer was dead, and the detective was also shot, dying.
Local youth police officers uncover evidence of the detective's murder of his partner. She knew that the inspector didn't mean it, that the inspector was a good police officer. Just when she decided to destroy this evidence, the detective took her hand to stop it.
"Don't Lose Your Way"
Are justice and evil distinct? People often go into the abyss because of a single thought. Good and bad are a matter of one thought.
We must face the dangers of the world kindly, and not jump to conclusions when we are in perplexity and danger.
Don't get lost.
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