Line #9 YMMV/Insomnia


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2	* CompleteMonster: [[PsychopathicManchild Atropos]] is one of the three "[[GrimReaper little bald doctors]]" responsible for cutting the life threads of the mortals whose time has come. Unlike the other two, Atropos absolutely despises humans for being such short-lived creatures, and takes great pleasure in ending their lives. So, in addition to doing his job, Atropos goes after people whose fate isn’t decided and causes them to die horribly, which he has done enough times to fill a cave with [[CreepySouvenir trophies]] of his victims. When his boss, the [[Franchise/TheDarkTower Crimson King]], wants him to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a young boy]] before said boy grows up to oppose his plans, Atropos uses this opportunity to harm as many people as possible, proceeding to [[TheCorrupter corrupt]] a nice family man called Ed Deepneau into becoming a [[HeManWomanHater wife-beating extremist]]. Under Atropos's manipulation, Deepneau gets together with like-minded maniacs and assaults a woman care center, where they murder dozens of people, as a distraction for his real plan: to have Deepneau crash with a plane full of explosives onto a pro-abortion rights rally that the kid will be attending with his mother, killing them along with the other two thousand people present. Along the way, Atropos has several of the protagonist’s friends killed just to piss him off, and taunts him about it. Finally, when his plans are foiled, Atropos tries to kill Deepneau’s six-year old daughter, who the hero befriended, just to get back at him for humiliating him in front of his boss.
3	* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler: Crashing a plane into a building as a terrorist attack became retroactively uncomfortable after 9/11.]]
4	* HilariousInHindsight: Ralph recreating Sheffield Steel shears now instantly brings to mind [[Series/DoctorWho the Thirteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver.]]
5	* {{Squick}}: Ralph torturing Atropos in order to make him comply. Sure, Atropos has proven himself a CompleteMonster at this point so it's hard to feel sorry for the bastard, but since the things Ralph does to Atropos are described in detail it can still have this effect. Even Ralph is disgusted by himself once he's done.
6	* TearJerker: The ending will have you in tears.
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9	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
10	** Did Dormer kill his partner by mistake or did he take advantage of the situation? Even Dormer isn't sure by the end.
11	** Just how sure is Dormer that [[spoiler:the killer he framed was guilty]]? He certainly thought so at the time, but the way he recounts the tale suggests he's lost so much perspective he isn't sure any more. (And even if he WAS sure at the time, why should anyone else believe him, considering [[spoiler:there wasn't any solid evidence]]?)
12	** Did Kay laugh at Walter because she thought they were just friends and was weirded out by him kissing her, or was it a kind of happy laughter if ''she'd'' thought that he just saw her as a friend and didn't return her crush. [[spoiler: Was Walter even telling the truth about her laughing, and that driving him to murder, considering the FridgeHorror below?]].
13	* FridgeHorror (also FridgeBrilliance): If you are paying close attention throughout the film, you will notice that 1) Ellie closely resembles Kay. [[spoiler: 2) Kay's letters are still on Finch's desk at his apartment in Umkumiut, not at his cabin by the lake, when Dormer kicks in the door. This means that when Finch calls Ellie to meet him at the cabin so he can give her the letters, he has some other motive for calling her there. 3) He leaves the drawer open so Ellie can see the dress, giving him an excuse to silence her.]] All this taken together suggests that Finch wanted to kill Ellie the moment he saw her, either because she looks like Kay or because he knows she suspects something.
14	* HarsherInHindsight: Finch being driven into dark rage by [[spoiler: being laughed at]]. Becomes a lot more disturbing when you consider that ''Creator/RobinWilliams'' was a mostly comedic actor [[spoiler: who struggled with long-term depression later in life that his humorous roles didn't make better and may have made worse]].

Context YMMV / Insomnia