The somnambulant mood may be partly intentional, but it’s also wearying.
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But the movie is also, at times, dreadfully dull. (He has said that in many ways this was the most important stepping-stone in his career, because it allowed him to ease into big-budget filmmaking.) Insomnia is impressive in many regards: Al Pacino is effectively haunted as the lead, and Robin Williams, at the time eagerly trying to shed his image as a cloying funnyman, is appropriately creepy and pathetic as the suspected murderer. This adaptation of the 1997 Norwegian crime thriller - about a troubled cop with a past who, while investigating a murder in small-town Alaska, accidentally kills his partner and then tries to cover up his crime - showed that the director could go from making low-budget indies to successful studio projects. But its technical limitations, combined with Nolan’s own inexperience, make it one of his weaker works. Anybody interested in the director’s films should check this one out. (Also, the lead thief’s name is Cobb, the same as the head thief in Inception). And the irony at the movie’s center - about a man who robs people to make them better appreciate their lives - is pure Nolan. Still, you can see the talent, and there are lots of fascinating elements here that would reemerge later: a nonlinear narrative, manipulative characters, a twist ending, the human psyche represented in material form. It does feel very much like a student effort: ambitious, awkward, bursting with ideas but often downright amateurish. Nolan’s ultra-low-budget 1998 directorial debut was cobbled together while he was working full-time, using available light and cheap film stock. Yes, this is something of a dangerous endeavor, given the fervency with which Nolan’s work is debated - by both his obsessive fans and his quite vocal detractors. So let’s take a look back over his career and figure out which of the director’s films were the masterpieces, and which ones were merely near-masterpieces. As a result, any ranking of his films is bound to wind up with at least a couple of amazing titles near the bottom that’s the kind of problem most directors wish they could have. Hold up! Before you go any further, know this: Christopher Nolan is an exceptional filmmaker who has made many great movies, despite the fact that he only has 11 features to his name. We are republishing this ranking now that the writer has (safely) seen Tenet in a private theater in New Jersey.
Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight.
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