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Klawans, Stuart | June 10, 2002 issue

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The article discusses about films like "The Believer" directed by Henry Bean and "Insomnia," by Christopher Nolan. The main character of the movie, Danny Baliant, hunches and glowers and struts and slinks through the streets of New York City, New York, his close-cropped head buzzing with mutually incompatible versions of Jewish identity, his brain bursting with arguments about God and against God. "Insomnia" tells the story of a person in the remote town of Nightmute, Alaska, having murdered a high school girl. The victim clearly knew her killer, and the local population is neither large nor highly mobile. Nevertheless, the Nightmute police feel too humble to work the case on their own.

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BELIEVER, The (Film); INSOMIA (Film); NOLAN, Christopher; BEAN, Henry; INSOMNIA; MURDERERS
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