百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[21]Insomnia 白夜追兇

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.

在阿拉斯加一個(gè)漁業(yè)小鎮(zhèn)日不落，人們發(fā)現(xiàn)十七歲的凱·康乃爾(克瑞斯塔爾·洛維飾)被殺了。洛杉磯警察局探員威爾·多馬(阿爾·帕西諾飾)和海普·?？斯?馬丁·唐諾文飾)被派來協(xié)助當(dāng)?shù)鼐秸{(diào)查。

同時(shí)，洛杉磯內(nèi)務(wù)部將緊張地調(diào)查多馬。?？斯赝嘎度绻麨槎囫R過去的一個(gè)案子作證的話，作為交換，內(nèi)務(wù)部會(huì)赦免他的責(zé)任。他說他別無選擇，只能接受這個(gè)交易。

針對(duì)日不落鎮(zhèn)案，多馬提出了一個(gè)引誘兇手回到案發(fā)現(xiàn)場(chǎng)的計(jì)劃。然而，計(jì)劃失敗了，犯罪嫌疑人逃進(jìn)霧中。在追逐過程中，透過濃霧，多馬看到一個(gè)身影，他開槍射擊。多馬發(fā)現(xiàn)他誤殺了?？斯?。考慮到?？斯丶磳⒆髯C，多馬知道內(nèi)務(wù)部一定不會(huì)相信他開槍是意外?；艁y之下，在大聲求援之前他改變了犯罪現(xiàn)場(chǎng)。一個(gè)年輕的警官艾莉·貝爾(希拉里·斯萬克飾)被派來負(fù)責(zé)調(diào)查?？斯乇粴⑹录?。

由于對(duì)殺死?？斯匾皇碌睦⒕?，多馬被失眠癥困擾著，同時(shí)，由于極晝的影響，失眠的癥狀進(jìn)一步加劇。接著多馬開始接到嫌疑犯的匿名電話，他聲稱看到多馬殺死自己的同伴。多馬發(fā)現(xiàn)凱是一個(gè)叫做沃爾特·芬奇(羅賓·威廉姆斯飾)的犯罪學(xué)小說家的粉絲。多馬拜訪芬奇的住處并闖入他的公寓來獲得證據(jù)，結(jié)果被芬奇發(fā)現(xiàn)了，芬奇跑了。芬奇聯(lián)系到多馬，并且提出一個(gè)交易，即多馬將謀殺罪嫁禍到凱的男朋友蘭迪·斯特茲(喬納森·杰克遜飾)身上，作為交換，芬奇會(huì)對(duì)?？斯氐谋粴⒈３殖聊?/p>

同時(shí)，Burr發(fā)現(xiàn)了多馬證詞的一些矛盾之處。她在案發(fā)現(xiàn)場(chǎng)發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個(gè)9毫米的子彈殼，這和在尸體中發(fā)現(xiàn)的子彈類型沖突。同時(shí)，芬奇打電話給多馬并告訴他凱的死是“一個(gè)意外”——在她拒絕他的求愛的時(shí)候，他在暴怒發(fā)作之下將她打死了。第二天，芬奇在多馬的指示下，帶著布下的武器，在警局做了偽證，有效地將罪過嫁禍到蘭迪身上。芬奇提出要給貝爾一些證明蘭迪虐待凱的信件，并且要她第二天到自己另一個(gè)地點(diǎn)隱蔽的家里面收集證據(jù)。

最后一夜，多馬獨(dú)自回到旅館，他向旅館老板瑞秋·克萊門特(莫拉·特尼飾)吐露了關(guān)于內(nèi)務(wù)部調(diào)查的秘密：他偽造了證據(jù)來證明一個(gè)他確定的戀童癖有謀殺一個(gè)小孩的罪名，如果埃克哈特作證的話，這個(gè)人就會(huì)被釋放。

當(dāng)多馬回到公寓時(shí)，發(fā)現(xiàn)芬奇已經(jīng)去見貝爾了，他意識(shí)到芬奇意圖殺死貝爾。芬奇將貝爾打得失去意識(shí)。最終，多馬到達(dá)了芬奇的小屋并和芬奇打起來。最后，貝爾救了多馬，芬奇逃了。然后，她用槍口對(duì)著多馬，說她知道多馬殺死了?？斯?。多馬承認(rèn)他殺死了自己的同伴，但是他聲稱自己不再確定這是不是一個(gè)意外。芬奇在他的小屋里面向他們開槍。貝爾用炮火引開了他的注意，而多馬溜到芬奇的位置，并和他打起來，最終，他們向彼此開槍，芬奇死了而多馬受了致命傷。

貝爾沖過去救多馬，然后通過斷言?？斯氐乃朗且粋€(gè)意外來安慰他，并且試圖丟掉子彈殼這個(gè)證物。多馬在死之前制止了她，告訴她不要迷失自己的方向。短暫的沉思之后，貝爾決定將子彈殼重新放回塑料證物袋。

重點(diǎn)掌握

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

Fit作為名詞使用時(shí)，有“一陣;(感情等的)激發(fā)，突發(fā);一時(shí)的沖動(dòng)”的意思，所以文中a fit of是“陣發(fā);突發(fā)一陣”的意思，比如：Blood really does rush to the head during a fit of anger. 在憤怒達(dá)到一定程度時(shí)，血液真的會(huì)沖上大腦。再如：“a fit of sullen一陣子不髙興”;“a fit of pique一氣之下”等。