insomnia

in an attempt to watch all of christopher nolan's movies, i came across this one. he made this one after memento and before the batman ones. it follows a lawman, played by al pacino as he travels to alaska to try and find a killer. the killer, played by robin williams, stays ever elusive, well at least until he finds out a few things about pacino's shady past. then we get an interesting game of cat and mouse, each one of course thinks he's the cat and has the other one pinned with something he can use to blackmail the other. all the while an honest local sheriff, played by hilary swank, is helping out pacino and starts to put the pieces together about both of them.
its a pretty interesting film with the character's conscience being symbolized by their inability to sleep. this is due to the fact that they are in an alaskan summer where the sun doesnt go down for days at a time. the twists and turns along the way are pretty interesting and robin williams does a great job as the creepy killer. its certainly one of nolan's lesser works, but it is well done.