Review of Insomnia

Insomnia (2002)
7/10
Insomnia, why?
18 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Two detectives travel to canada to help to solve a mysterious crime case (murder of a girl). Will Dormer is characterized es really smart and the best, detective around. Although the local police can't find enough evidence, it takes Will just a view interviews to kind of solve the case. He just "knows" things and people immediately tell him how it really was... They set a trap to find the suspect. Because it is extremely foggy, he shoots his colege in an accident. Then he doesn't say it was an accident, no, he tries to hide the evidence, changes stuff, lies... Which is not so smart and he must know better! Its just luck that he is not caught immediately. Mr Finch, the real murder, hears everything and sees everything except you could probably see 3m that foggy day... He must have stood right next to them... Then he blackmails Will and blames somebody else who gets arrested for the murder of the girl.

All that time Will can't sleep because in canada the sun doesn't set. In his room he tries to darken his room by using a kind of transparent tape to block the sun... Why? Why is he no just asking for a really dark room. Or use a kind of blindfold... This irritated me so much. The best detective in the world is not able to darken his room? And why the whole sleepdeprivation motive? In memento it really has a function in the movie. Here, Will is just always tired and the whole movie is called like that. Its just weired. It dorsn't add to the storry. He doesn't sleep for 6 days, right. He doesn't tell anybody... Doesn't use sleep medicarion... And why did Mr Finch clean the girls body after the murder, without any stress and then levae the backpack with his book inside? He is portraied as the smartesd guy arround, but makes the most stupid mistakes... The movie is not bad at all but feels a bit dumb and forced at times. The conversations between will and finch are great. The way the story goes is interesting but it's feels too constructed and at times not comprehensible.
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