![]() The main criminal interest is Jon Holt, a crime writer who has made me think a bit differently about crime writers. What Engström needs is a nemesis and for a while we think that person is going to be colleague Hilde Hagen, who specialises in penetrating stares. He is not a sympathetically drawn character and it isn’t clear where his moral compass truly points even if his flashbacks suggest that his conscience remains operational. Watching Engström straddle vulnerability and his professional smarts is compelling viewing. Just prior to the film’s events, Engström’s been busted out of the Swedish polis and the way we find out is watching him listening in to his new Norwegian colleagues discussing the dirt: it’s a scene that’s needed for exposition but it’s more than that just like a similar scene in The Damned United when Brian Clough hears his new Leeds players mocking their gaffer, it shows the eavesdropper at their most vulnerable. ![]() Engström isn’t from round those parts and can’t deal with the 24-hour sunlight or the burden of a big mistake that happens early on in the case. ![]() Insomnia is a slow-burn thriller that follows the psychological deterioration of detective Jonas Engström as he attempts to solve a murder in the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø. This is literally what Nordic Noir becomes when you can’t turn the lights off. So I’m saving up Midnight Sun to binge watch but in the meantime the 1997 production of Insomnia is a good precursor, showing the downside of daylight that lasts for months.
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