Absolutely gorgeously shot. The landscape lends a very melancholy atmosphere and the sets and color palette just makes me want to die, it's so beautiful. Probably my favourite part about the film.
The story is amazing, it's fairly simple, which works in the film's favour because the real focus is on the mental duress that our main character is going through. A wild roller coaster.
I've just got to say it... it's better than Nolan's version.
Well, that is the most awkward almost-sex scene I've ever seen.
Anyway. Stellan Skarsgård (who is Swedish) was noticeably better than the Norwegian actors, as is usual for Scandinavian films. However, it was an excellent film, though it doesn't top the Wallander series (well, the original ones with Rolf Lassgård, anyway).
The original Insomnia is tight Nordic Noir in a land with no darkness. Can you commit crimes in the light of perpetual day, always sure to be exposed? It drives our main detective's insomnia - and Stellan Skarsgård certainly plays his growing fatigue well, to the point where he's essentially sleepwalking to the finale - a metaphor for guilt, both first and second-hand. How can you ever sleep seeing the things he sees? Or does. It's why the murder is shot like a nightmare. Director Erik Skjoldbjærg manages some disorientating shots without calling too much attention to them, indeed not unlike how the inciting situation resolves itself in the first act. More than a whodunit, Insomnia is also a howtogetawaywithit with several twists in the tale. If not entirely unpredictable, it proceeds at quick enough a pace that you're never too far ahead of it and it works. That's if you buy the detective's rather thin motivation, thrown out at the end, as it were. Did I? Just about, but it's something I wish they'd been more up front about instead of making it a reveal.
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Absolutely gorgeously shot. The landscape lends a very melancholy atmosphere and the sets and color palette just makes me want to die, it's so beautiful. Probably my favourite part about the film.The story is amazing, it's fairly simple, which works in the film's favour because the real focus is on the mental duress that our main character is going through. A wild roller coaster.
I've just got to say it... it's better than Nolan's version.
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This movie definitely exceeded my expectations of it. A really well-made detective story.Remis
Well, that is the most awkward almost-sex scene I've ever seen.Anyway. Stellan Skarsgård (who is Swedish) was noticeably better than the Norwegian actors, as is usual for Scandinavian films. However, it was an excellent film, though it doesn't top the Wallander series (well, the original ones with Rolf Lassgård, anyway).
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The original Insomnia is tight Nordic Noir in a land with no darkness. Can you commit crimes in the light of perpetual day, always sure to be exposed? It drives our main detective's insomnia - and Stellan Skarsgård certainly plays his growing fatigue well, to the point where he's essentially sleepwalking to the finale - a metaphor for guilt, both first and second-hand. How can you ever sleep seeing the things he sees? Or does. It's why the murder is shot like a nightmare. Director Erik Skjoldbjærg manages some disorientating shots without calling too much attention to them, indeed not unlike how the inciting situation resolves itself in the first act. More than a whodunit, Insomnia is also a howtogetawaywithit with several twists in the tale. If not entirely unpredictable, it proceeds at quick enough a pace that you're never too far ahead of it and it works. That's if you buy the detective's rather thin motivation, thrown out at the end, as it were. Did I? Just about, but it's something I wish they'd been more up front about instead of making it a reveal.McBacon
This is the Swedish original, not the US Cristopher Nolan remake.