Anti-Climax: The original's finale at first promises to become a tense standoff, with Holt holding Engström at gunpoint.
In the remake, Finch does go through with it, capturing Ellie. He was evidently only bluffing, though, since he never did it.
The ages of the two primary female characters - the local detective and the hotel receptionist - are also swapped in the films.The circumstances of Hap's shooting carry a darker undercurrent for Dormer. The age difference plays a role in former because it is implied Vik has grown senile, causing him to run into Engström's shot. The remake swaps the ages of the main detective and his partner - Engström is younger than Vik in the original, but Dormer is older than Hap.Affably Evil: Walter Finch in the remake is very polite and friendly towards Dormer, viewing him as a similar mind.While he apparently had no prior plans to do the deed, it's clearly second-degree murder. Dormer points out that the autopsy showed that he would have to have taken around 10 minutes to beat her to death. While in the original, it's left rather vague, with the killer probably killing her in a fit of rage, whereas in the remake, he's obviously just making excuses. The killer claims that this is how she died. Subverted with the young girl's death.Towards the end, however, not even he is sure whether it was an accident or not. Engström/Dormer accidentally shoots his partner while they're tracking the killer through the mist (in the remake, he covers it up because he had a motive for killing him).No relation to the Stephen King novel Insomnia, or the gaming/philosophy website, or the Legend of Zelda fanfic Insomnia.
Little does he know that the man he's been hunting is watching him closely, and one tragic mistake is all the killer will need to exploit the detective's weakness. Soon, the lines between fantasy and reality start to blur, leaving him to question the sins of his past and the bleak prospect of his future. However, due to the stress of the investigation, combined with an extreme case of insomnia brought on by the White Nights, he ends up committing a fatal error when he tries to hunt down the killer - a botch-up that he, overwhelmed by his sleepless frenzy, attempts to cover up. Skarsgård (Pacino as in the remake) plays a jaded, disgraced big-city police detective (Kripos and LAPD respectively) who is flown in together with his partner, to bring the case to a swift end through their wealth of experience with violent crime. The vicious nature of the killing and the meticulous manner in which the body was cleaned has confounded the local police, who soon realize that they need help. It is during this season when the savagely beaten body of a local teenage girl is found in a remote Northern town (Tromsø, Norway in the original and Nightmute, Alaska in the remake). "White Night" (or "The Midnight Sun") is a phenomenon in which the sun is still visible after midnight in settlements near the Arctic Circle - in some cases, it won't set for months at a time. Insomnia is a 1997 Norwegian Psychological Thriller film directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg and starring Stellan Skarsgård which received a 2002 American remake directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank.
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