by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Insomnia
Summary: Insomnia, Christopher Nolan’s 2002 remake of the Norwegian noir bearing the same name, is a stunning character study of the sleepless sleuth, Will Dormer. Reassigned to Nightmute, Alaska, Officer Dormer strives to solve the case of a methodically...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Insomnia, Movie Reviews
Black on white. As the opening credits roll, or rather seem to be blotted upon the porcelain screen, like inkblots on a Rorschach test, we hear the first sounds of a melancholic score, rising and falling, in sync with black names upon the white screen. ...
by Frank Jolley | Aug 27, 2025 | Insomnia
In Nolan’s Insomnia, the viewer is led, step by step, into the psyche of the film’s troubled protagonist, Detective Will Dormer. Beginning with the film’s opening sequence, we get a glimpse of Dormer’s interior state, as we are shown vignettes from a dream he is...
