"Insomnia" is a police movie. It observes a police detective's case handling process in a single-line way. The plot is not special, but the method is very interesting. The plot of the film mainly tells the story of a Swedish police detective and his partner who go to a Norwegian town near the North Pole to assist in the investigation of a young woman who was murdered and abandoned. After arriving in the town, the Swedish police detective was troubled by the severe insomnia caused by the eternal day, and was physically exhausted and mentally exhausted. As a result, he accidentally shot and killed his partner in the process of chasing the murderer.
Perhaps influenced by insomnia, the highly-respected Swedish police detective decides to hide his accidental blunders and put the blame on the killer. To this end, he revised his statements about the incident, concealed the guns left by the murderer at the scene, and secretly replaced the evidence. I just didn't expect that when the Swedish police detectives continued to investigate the case, the murderer took the initiative to find the detective and used the truth to coerce him to protect himself.
Due to being unable to fall asleep for a long time and the pressure brought by the accident, the Swedish police detective not only overdrawn physically and mentally, but also began to have hallucinations, that is, in this state, he agreed to cooperate with the murderer and framed both cases until they were killed. female boyfriend. Unfortunately, things were not handled perfectly. There was a fingerprint of the murderer on the pistol that the murderer left at the scene and used to plant the stolen goods. The Swedish police detective did not wipe it clean due to negligence. As a grasshopper on a rope, the Swedish police detective and the murderer enter a state of either you die or I live.
■At first glance, this is a story about a Swedish police detective and a murderer. In fact, it is not. The real focus of the film is actually the "psychological journey" of a Swedish police detective, which is the complete process of an excellent police detective from accident to crime. Behind this psychological process and criminal process, the murderer's psychological process and the way others and audiences perceive the truth are projected layer by layer.
At the beginning of the film, the director presents the brutal picture of the murderer killing the victim in a voyeuristic way, and records in detail the murderer's skillful methods of killing evidence, such as washing the hair, cleaning the nails, and removing the clothes for the victim. In the middle of the film, there is still a dirty garbage dump where the victims in the Mood for Love were dumped. After learning these kinds of "cold-blooded facts", would you believe the murderer's statement that everything was accidental?
At the beginning of the case, Swedish police detectives believed that this was a premeditated murder, and that the murderer was a cool-headed and cruel person. But at the end of the film, he completely believed the murderer's statement about the accident, not because he knew the character of the murderer, but after murdering his partner by mistake, choosing to destroy evidence, and almost raping the female receptionist under passion, the Swedish police detective re-opened Knowing oneself, knowing human nature, knowing the source of great evil can be a mere accident.
As a well-known figure in the police world, a Swedish police detective would accidentally kill his partner because of fatigue and fog, and would choose to conceal the truth and frame others because of his weak will. Then the murderer of a well-known detective novel writer was accidentally killed because of passion. It is unbelievable that the victim, because of fear and cowardice, chose to destroy the trace and abandon the body, and then threatened the police detective.
In the film, a careful female police detective found that the statement of the Swedish police detective was inconsistent with the situation at the scene. She went to the scene to investigate and found a bullet casing matching the firearm used by the Swedish police detective. But in the end, she did not report the inconsistency to the facts, and returned the cartridge case to the Swedish police detective. why?
She knew that the Swedish police detective was a good policeman. Based on the fact that he was affected by insomnia and the fog on the scene that day, she understood that the truth was an accident, and there was no need to chase after him. But it was obviously an accident, why is the Swedish police "excusable", but the murderer is "unforgivable"? People think they are judging right and wrong according to the "truth", choosing to forgive or condemn, but in fact everyone only sees part of the matter, but on this weak basis, unswervingly acts of kindness or cruelty.
■The most outstanding part of the film "Insomnia" is the repeated use of "parallel techniques": creating a preconceived idea for the audience, and then attacking this established idea with another similar state.
First of all, the director plays a brutal murder scene at the beginning of the film, and implants the murderer's cruel and bloodthirsty image into the audience's mind, and then takes the audience step by step to observe the "unfortunate fall" of a good man. Behind the single-line narrative line of the Swedish police is a parallel story line, which is the criminal process and psychological process of the murderer. The initial distaste for the murderer and the subsequent sympathy for the Swedish detective form a state that is both similar and contradictory.
Secondly, the Swedish police detectives framed the frame twice. The first time was to frame the murderer, and the second time was to frame the victim's boyfriend. During the first framing process, the film presented in detail the scene where the Swedish police were trapped in the fog and forced to shoot. Everything was an unfortunate accident, so the framing gave the murderer an understandable feeling. But the second time it was extremely disgusting. But the root of everything actually came from the victim's boyfriend and friends. Under the "accident" of these two people, the victim would go to the murderer in the middle of the night, which also led to a series of accidents. After the victim was killed, the two did not feel the slightest sadness or guilt, but the murderer was constantly tortured by conscience. In the end the murderer's crime is more serious or these two?
Finally, there are female police officers and Swedish police detectives. The careful female police officer chose to hand over the bullet casings found at the scene to the Swedish police. This was based on her trust in her colleagues and the protection of a good police officer. The starting point was kind. But how different is this from Swedish police detectives breaking the law, annihilating evidence or even framing them in order to hide the unexpected truth? The policewoman also concealed the truth and made the murderer bear all the guilt. Although the results are the same, the different motivations and methods can make people have different perceptions and understandings.
Who is it that affects judgment because of insomnia? Maybe every viewer.
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