Footsteps

In Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, 2002), a movie that might not be considered so great with standard measures, I came across once again with one of my favorite themes: a workaholic detective with no clear past, no human connections and no clear purpose in life who only concerns with solving that immediate puzzle before him. Yet as is the case in many similar movies, at the end, the problem sheds some light on his understanding of life. With the beauty of the northern sky casting in the background and the detective suffering from chronic insomnia, the movie delivers that mixture of feelings which is so common and natural in real life. It seems from Sherlock Holmes to this movie, the character of a lonely and stubborn detective can lure us again and again. I can think of another TV drama, ER, which also portraits the same type of characters in a context different than mystery genre.