The perpetual daylight in Norway is a distraction, especially for a police detective who is pursuing one murder and making another.
This is Norway's 1997 Cannes award-winning film "Insomnia," an excellent psychological thriller, so good that Nolan's remake "Insomnia" five years later couldn't surpass it even with three excellent actors.
Norwegian's original version of the single-line plot, without any elaboration, shows strength in plainness. The highlights of the movie are pale and pale throughout, which not only makes the male protagonist fall into extreme insomnia and exhaustion, but also makes his efforts to hide the truth even more exhausted and pale.
His light blue eyes have always been the biggest attraction of the movie, cruising erratically and implying ferocity. The director probably also deeply understands the expressive power of these eyes, so he arranged the last shot to let a pair of blue eyes twinkle in the dark, which is considered to push the metaphor to the extreme---even if a person hides the truth and escapes guilt, he has to face the Inner eternal guilt. His soul will be plunged into eternal day, and will never be at rest.
The male protagonist is one of the two strongest male actors in Northern Europe, and his name needs to be remembered: Stellan Skarsgard.
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