百年50部英文烧脑电影赏析:[21]Insomnia 白夜追凶

In the small fishing town of Nightmute, Alaska, 17-year-old Kay Connell(Crystal Lowe)is found murdered. LAPD detectives Will Dormer(Al Pacino)and Hap Eckhart(Martin Donovan)are sent to assist the local police with their investigation.

Concurrently, an intense Internal Affairs investigation in Los Angeles is about to put Dormer under the microscope; Eckhart reveals that Internal Affairs has offered him an immunity deal in exchange for his testimony regarding one of Dormer's past cases. Eckhart says that he has no choice but to accept the deal.

Focusing on the Nightmute case, Dormer comes up with a plan to lure the murderer back to the scene of the crime; however, the attempt is blown，and the murder suspect flees into the fog. During the pursuit, Dormer sees a figure through the fog, and he fires. Dormer discovers that he has mistakenly shot Eckhart. Given the nature of Eckhart's impending testimony, Dormer knows that Internal Affairs will never believe that the shooting was accidental; panicked, he alters the crime scene before crying for help. Ellie Burr(Hilary Swank), a young police officer, is put in charge of the investigation of Eckhart's shooting.

Dormer is plagued by insomnia brought on by guilt over killing Eckhart, and further exacerbated by the perpetual daylight. Dormer then starts receiving anonymous phone calls from the suspect, who claims to have witnessed Dormer kill his partner. Dormer is aware that Kay was a fan of a crime writer named Walter Finch(Robin Williams). Dormer looks up Finch's address and breaks into his apartment to gather evidence, only to be discovered by Finch himself, who gets away. Finch contacts Dormer, and offers Dormer a deal, where Dormer is to frame Kay's abusive boyfriend Randy Stetz(Jonathan Jackson)for the murder in exchange for Finch's silence about the Eckhart shooting.

Meanwhile, Burr finds some inconsistencies in Dormer's testimony; she finds a 9mm shell casing at the scene, which conflicts with the bullet type believed to be found in the body. Meanwhile, Finch calls Dormer and tells him that Kay's death was “an accident” — he beat her to death in a fit of rage after she rejected his advances. The next day, Finch, under Dormer's instruction, gives false testimony at the station, which, along with a weapon planted by Finch, effectively places blame on Randy. Finch offers to give Burr letters indicating that Randy abused Kay, and asks her to come and collect evidence from his second, isolated home the next day.

Dormer returns to his hotel for one last night, where he confides in the hotel owner, Rachel Clement(Maura Tierney)about the Internal Affairs investigation: he fabricated evidence to help convict a pedophile he was certain was guilty of murdering a child, and who would have been set free if Eckhart had testified.

Upon returning to Finch's apartment, Dormer discovers that Finch has gone to meet Burr, and realizes that Finch intends to kill her. Finch knocks Burr unconscious. Dormer eventually reaches the cabin and struggles to fight Finch. Burr eventually saves Dormer from Finch, who flees; she then holds Dormer at gunpoint, revealing that she knows he shot Eckhart. Dormer admits that he shot his partner, but claims he is no longer certain if it was an accident. From his shed, Finch fires at them; while Burr distracts him with gunfire, Dormer sneaks around to Finch's location. A struggle ensues which ends with them shooting each other, killing Finch and mortally wounding Dormer.

Burr rushes to the detective's aid, and then comforts him by affirming that Eckhart's shooting was accidental, and tries to toss the shell casing evidence. Dormer stops Burr, telling her not to lose her way, before he dies. After a brief moment of contemplation, Burr decides to slip the shell casing back into its plastic evidence bag.

在阿拉斯加一个渔业小镇日不落，人们发现十七岁的凯·康乃尔(克瑞斯塔尔·洛维饰)被杀了。洛杉矶警察局探员威尔·多马(阿尔·帕西诺饰)和海普·埃克哈特(马丁·唐诺文饰)被派来协助当地警方调查。

同时，洛杉矶内务部将紧张地调查多马。埃克哈特透露如果他为多马过去的一个案子作证的话，作为交换，内务部会赦免他的责任。他说他别无选择，只能接受这个交易。

针对日不落镇案，多马提出了一个引诱凶手回到案发现场的计划。然而，计划失败了，犯罪嫌疑人逃进雾中。在追逐过程中，透过浓雾，多马看到一个身影，他开枪射击。多马发现他误杀了埃克哈特。考虑到埃克哈特即将作证，多马知道内务部一定不会相信他开枪是意外。慌乱之下，在大声求援之前他改变了犯罪现场。一个年轻的警官艾莉·贝尔(希拉里·斯万克饰)被派来负责调查埃克哈特被杀事件。

由于对杀死埃克哈特一事的愧疚，多马被失眠症困扰着，同时，由于极昼的影响，失眠的症状进一步加剧。接着多马开始接到嫌疑犯的匿名电话，他声称看到多马杀死自己的同伴。多马发现凯是一个叫做沃尔特·芬奇(罗宾·威廉姆斯饰)的犯罪学小说家的粉丝。多马拜访芬奇的住处并闯入他的公寓来获得证据，结果被芬奇发现了，芬奇跑了。芬奇联系到多马，并且提出一个交易，即多马将谋杀罪嫁祸到凯的男朋友兰迪·斯特兹(乔纳森·杰克逊饰)身上，作为交换，芬奇会对埃克哈特的被杀保持沉默。

同时，Burr发现了多马证词的一些矛盾之处。她在案发现场发现了一个9毫米的子弹壳，这和在尸体中发现的子弹类型冲突。同时，芬奇打电话给多马并告诉他凯的死是“一个意外”——在她拒绝他的求爱的时候，他在暴怒发作之下将她打死了。第二天，芬奇在多马的指示下，带着布下的武器，在警局做了伪证，有效地将罪过嫁祸到兰迪身上。芬奇提出要给贝尔一些证明兰迪虐待凯的信件，并且要她第二天到自己另一个地点隐蔽的家里面收集证据。

最后一夜，多马独自回到旅馆，他向旅馆老板瑞秋·克莱门特(莫拉·特尼饰)吐露了关于内务部调查的秘密：他伪造了证据来证明一个他确定的恋童癖有谋杀一个小孩的罪名，如果埃克哈特作证的话，这个人就会被释放。

当多马回到公寓时，发现芬奇已经去见贝尔了，他意识到芬奇意图杀死贝尔。芬奇将贝尔打得失去意识。最终，多马到达了芬奇的小屋并和芬奇打起来。最后，贝尔救了多马，芬奇逃了。然后，她用枪口对着多马，说她知道多马杀死了埃克哈特。多马承认他杀死了自己的同伴，但是他声称自己不再确定这是不是一个意外。芬奇在他的小屋里面向他们开枪。贝尔用炮火引开了他的注意，而多马溜到芬奇的位置，并和他打起来，最终，他们向彼此开枪，芬奇死了而多马受了致命伤。

贝尔冲过去救多马，然后通过断言埃克哈特的死是一个意外来安慰他，并且试图丢掉子弹壳这个证物。多马在死之前制止了她，告诉她不要迷失自己的方向。短暂的沉思之后，贝尔决定将子弹壳重新放回塑料证物袋。

重点掌握

■ he beat her to death in a fit of rage after she rejected his advances.

Fit作为名词使用时，有“一阵;(感情等的)激发，突发;一时的冲动”的意思，所以文中a fit of是“阵发;突发一阵”的意思，比如：Blood really does rush to the head during a fit of anger. 在愤怒达到一定程度时，血液真的会冲上大脑。再如：“a fit of sullen一阵子不髙兴”;“a fit of pique一气之下”等。

Martin Donovan Interviewedby Rebecca Murray

How did you get involved with Insomnia?

It was very straightforward. The agent called and she said, “Here's the script. They want you to read.” I went and read for Christopher Nolan in New York and that was it.

How much research did you do for the role of a police officer?

You know honestly, I've played cops before and one of the things I tried to do was look like I knew how to hold a gun, basically that sort of stuff. I did some work in terms of entering a premise — we had a police advisor up there — just little things like that. The rest of it was stuff that didn't necessarily relate to or wasn't specific to being a cop. There was emotional stuff between two partners.

How was your experience playing opposite Al Pacino?

It was just fantastic. He's like driving a Ferrari; if you want to go fast, he'll go as fast you want to go. He's an amazing artist and he's extremely passionate about the work. After his kind of career, he's still the most serious guy. He's one of the most serious, committed actors I've ever worked with. You'd think that somebody maybe at his point would be willing to coast a little bit but there's no sense of that whatsoever.

你是如何加入《白夜追凶》的?

过程很简单，经纪人打电话并说：“这里有一个剧本，他们希望你能够看看。”我去找在纽约的克里斯托弗·诺兰，并且看完了剧本，就这样。

你为警官这一角色进行了多少调查?

说实话，你知道我以前演过警察，我尝试去做的其中一件事情就是让我看起来知道怎么拿枪，至少基本上会。在关于进入房间这种类似的小事情上我做了一些工作，我们有一个警察指导。其他的就是不太必要但是又与警察有关的东西或者不是警察特有的东西。在这两个同伴之间有一定的感情。

你与阿尔·帕西诺演对手戏的经历怎么样?

非常好。他好像开着一辆法拉利，如果你想快一点，你想多快他就可以开多快。他是一个令人惊奇的艺术家，他对工作极具热情。除了他的职业，他还是一个最认真的家伙。他是我见过的一起工作过的最认真负责的演员之一。你会想，一个人到了他这个高度，可能会愿意放松一下，但是无论什么人，这样做都是没有道理的。

《白夜追凶》改编自1997年的挪威电影《失眠症》，制作人保罗·乔恩格·威特和爱德华·麦克唐纳对片中设置和主人公的独特困境产生了浓厚兴趣，于是找来编剧希拉里·塞茨进行改编。

哈里森·福特曾是扮演威尔·多马的最初人选。

制片方曾考虑请乔纳森·戴米出任本片导演。

威尔·多马的名字源于意为睡眠的拉丁语“dormire”。