In 2002, Christopher Nolan directed a thriller called Insomnia? This puts us in the face of a strange murder in Alaska. Will Dormer (Al Pacino) is a prestigious Los Angeles police officer who travels with his partner Donovan to help investigate the brutal crime that led to the death of a teenager.
When they are about to catch the killer, Donovan dies by accident and the killer (Robin Williams) escapes after observing everything that has happened. Will cannot accept what happened and is trying to change the facts, including evidence of the crime. The killer feels identified with Will and starts contacting him, blackmailing him. The great detective, tormented by the death of his friend and the guilt he feels, in addition to the constant connections, begins to suffer insomnia.
- Al Pacino.
- Playing Will Dormer.
- Is unable to assimilate the accident he caused and denies what happened to him and others.
- Preventing him from integrating it into his own identity.
- He does not want or cannot identify with the fact and accept guilt.
- Although his conscience has recorded everything that has happened.
When such a fact is lived as traumatic, it is necessary to develop a realistic narrative that allows us to make sense of what happened, in this case rejection and denial diminished its fundamental faculties, both physical and mental.
After the accident, Will began to generate internal beliefs like “it wasn’t my fault. “Avoiding the behavior and mindset of what really happened helps you perceive intolerable aspects of yourself, others, and the world.
Al Pacino interprets a clear example of how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop. Will pressed a highly traumatic event to which he responded with fear, helplessness and horror. After the misfortune, he began to relive this moment through dreams. intrusive memories, flashbacks?
Will knew that the only solution to solve the case was to tell the truth and free himself from guilt, but he preferred to avoid those memories and thoughts of the event and tried to change what was going on by lying. To build a new story about the accident, he began to create distorted cognitions about the cause or consequences of the traumatic event, trying to transfer the blame to someone else.
In order to continue his lie and make his guilt invisible, he began to distance himself from others and his ability to feel positive emotions gradually disappeared. A young assistant noticed the great change of Al Pacino, especially the decrease in attention span and overall concentration caused. insomnia.
In trauma, personality is extremely divided between two or more very rigid psychobiological subsystems that cause adaptation problems, prototypical personality subsystems can achieve different degrees of elaboration and autonomy and become ACP and EP:
This marked division between the two personalities characterizes simple dissociative post-traumatic stress disorder, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This separation between PAN and EP prevents the integration of traumatic memories and blocks the transformation of the event into autobiographical narrative memories. In other words, the traumatized person must be able to tell and tell the truth about the event.
Our life is the scenario on which we unfold and the scenario changes the character in one way or another, in short, it is a film that reflects how an experience can mark a before and after, depending on how it has integrated into ours. History.