![]() ![]() Engström may be a detestable person, but Skjoldbjærg’s film leaves no doubt that the shooting was unintentional. In the original, Engström gets along famously with his partner Erik Vik (Sverre Anker Ousdal). Tenet: The Culmination of a 22-Year Obsession With Time.Dunkirk: Wrestling With Time and With History.Interstellar: Exploring Time and Memory.The Dark Knight Rises: Big, Bold and Bizarre.Inception: Christopher Nolan's Self-Deconstruction. ![]() The Dark Knight: Plummeting Into Real-World Terror.The Prestige: Obsession Behind the Curtain.Batman Begins: Exploring the Dark Knight's Past and America’s Response to Tragedy.Following and "Doodlebug": Setting a Course for Non-Linear Identity Crises.More From IGN's Christopher Nolan Retrospective However, the second major change by screenwriter Hillary Seitz seems to justify these edges being sanded down. One man is an irredeemable villain, the other, an anti-hero. Engström, for instance, shoots a dog and extracts the bullet to fake evidence, while the dog Dormer shoots is already dead. Both narratives are compelling, even though Nolan’s version feels more sanitized. ![]() In short, Engström is as much of a creep as the man he’s pursuing - seedy crime novelist Jon Holt (Bjørn Floberg) - while Dormer fits the outline of Hollywood’s typical rogue detective, a Dirty Harry-type who never stoops to the villain’s level, but uses underhanded means all the same. Where Engström uses sexual coercion to interrogate the victim’s friend, a minor, while driving to the scene of the crime, Dormer’s methods are more psychological the equivalent scene involves Dormer nearly driving into an oncoming truck to intimidate the friend in the passenger seat. In the original, Engström slept with a key witness in an earlier case, while in the remake, Dormer’s charges aren’t revealed until later in the film: He planted evidence to catch another child killer. detective Will Dormer.Ī Tale of Two InsomniasThe ’97 Insomnia features Stellan Skarsgård in the Dormer role, a character named Jonas Engström. In the latest installment of our deep dive into Nolan’s work, we look at how one of those changes works to make Dormer’s character less ambiguous, while the other makes his actions more so. The broad strokes resemble Erik Skjoldbjærg’s Swedish and Norwegian-language original, but the 2002 remake foists a pair of Hollywood-esque changes onto the story. For the rest of the film, he’s left with one death to solve, and another to cover up. However, during a chase obscured by fog - during which the film cuts so rapidly between Dormer and Finch you lose all sense of who is who - Dormer ends up shooting and killing his own partner. With the help of local cop Ellie Burr (Hilary Swank), they manage to lure a suspect to the scene of the killing: local crime author Walter Finch (Robin Williams). Dormer and his partner Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan) have been ushered out of the spotlight of an Internal Affairs investigation, and pawned off onto the mysterious murder of a young girl, Kay Connell (Crystal Lowe), whose body was found without a single trace of evidence. detective Will Dormer (Al Pacino) to Nightmute, Alaska, a small fishing village where the sun doesn’t set for six months a year. However, watching Nolan’s final pre-Batman outing also reveals a subtle finessing of his M.O. ![]() There are no memory holes or backward timelines, no superhero antics, and no parallel chronologies to decipher. It’s the only one he didn’t have much of a hand in writing (the screenplay was adapted by Hillary Seitz) and, on paper, it’s fairly straightforward. Insomnia, a remake of the 1997 Norwegian thriller of the same name, is one of Christopher Nolan’s least talked about works. ![]()
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