For his first studio venture, Nolan joined up with Warner Bros. for the 2002 crime thriller “Insomnia.” A remake of a 1997 Norwegian film, the movie starred Al Pacino as LA detective Will Dormer, who travels to Nightmute, Alaska to assist examine the homicide of a teenage lady. Dormer, who’s beneath Inner Affairs investigation himself for his conduct on earlier instances, zeroes in on the assassin, Walter Finch, performed by Robin Williams who was on the time in full ‘dramatic position’ mode, having additionally starred as loner photograph technician Seymour Parrish in “One Hour Photograph” that very same 12 months.
And whereas the movie had similarities to “Memento” with its equally unreliable narrator who begins to query his personal psychological processes, “Insomnia” was a way more standard film. The truth is, it stays Nolan’s most standard movie 20 years later. Contemplating the director’s love for detective fiction it is sensible that he can be drawn to the crime thriller, particularly contemplating it contained what he called (via MovieWeb) a “fascinating and really evocative psychological state of affairs.” However it nonetheless stands out as a remarkably non-Nolan-esque entry within the director’s filmography, and a departure from the artistic filmmaking of “Memento.”
Maybe that is why Nolan does not actually see it as a real follow-up to his breakout movie. Requested about why he selected “Insomnia” after having such success with “Memento” he stated:
“To be sincere I began work on Insomnia some months earlier than ‘Memento’ was even launched in theaters, so I wasn’t actually having to view ‘Insomnia’ essentially as a follow-up within the sense that folks would query it as a result of nobody actually knew the extent ‘Memento’ would get on the market on the time. I assumed I ought to be free to do no matter impressed me and took my fancy. I discovered the unique film very inspiring.”