When he thinks he's witnessed a murder, his doting fiancée, played by Grace Kelly, believes him, but this peeping Tom detective needs more proof to persuade the police - and to catch the killer whose sights may now be set on him. His boredom in convalescence leads to long hours of spying on his neighbors whose lives unfold outside his window. Jeffries ("Jeff" for short), a renowned photographer recuperating after breaking his leg on assignment. That's the premise of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film "Rear Window." Jimmy Stewart plays L.B. Still, "Insomnia" has the optimistic tone Nolan would return to for a more famous detective in "The Dark Knight." Regardless, it's gratifying to watch the foremost auteur of the aughts and cinematographer Wally Pfister churn out this entertaining potboiler, crafted with the duo's exacting standard of visual perfection. Maybe this shift is because neither Nolan nor his brother was responsible for the source material. In "Insomnia," the director embraces conventional Hollywood storytelling ethics in which a protagonist's tragic sacrifice represents some return to the moral order.
Nolan's prior film, "Memento," is in many ways a cynical story that ends with the revelation that everything you saw is a cycle of violence and degradation that will continue.
When a creepy novelist played by Robin Williams becomes the prime suspect, the cop and the writer battle for control of the narrative. Al Pacino plays Will Dormer, a veteran police detective with a checkered past, who gets called to a remote Alaskan town to assist the local authorities in investigating the murder of a teenage girl.
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