Insomnia The Moral Of The Movie

Socrates said: “A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.” The great philosopher came to the conclusion that morality is an illusion. Perhaps, in the movie Insomnia, which was directed by Christopher Nolan, intended to shared light upon the same matter. Is morality an illusion? Is there a clear line between right and wrong? Or are there gray areas? Certainly, the movie has a great cast with actors such as Robin Williams, Al Pacino and others. Also, this film can hook the audience almost immediately with a combination of images that make no sense at the beginning of the movie. In the same fashion, the characters are intentionally designed to provide contrast between light and darkness or good and evil. Furthermore, the plot of the movie is about the murder of a teenager

Usually, in a movie, there is a marked binary dynamic between good and evil, which causes oneself to immediately identify who is the villain and who is the hero. Nevertheless, in Insomnia, there are no clear heroes; instead, the movie forces the audience to consider to whom attribute virtue of good. To illustrate, Walter Finch is the murderer of the teenage girl, but William Dormer was the killer of his partner Eckhart. In a conventional movie, the cop chasing the suspect would be considered the hero. Nonetheless, the cop was a murderer as well. As a result, the question one may ask is Dormer, a good officer who made a mistake or is he the same as Walter Finch. If Dormer were a hero, he would not have confabulated with the murderer ways to avoid the consequence of the law. However, at the end of the movie Dormer expresses how tired he is of running and how he knew his lies were going to catch up to him eventually. Such declaration then makes one consider and believe Dormer had good in