beginning to reverse-track it’s hero’s short-term memory loss. Insomnia complicated its procedural find-a-killer plot by questioning the perceptions of Al Pacino’s sleep-deprived, hallucinating detective hero. The Prestige packaged the appearance-versus-reality conundrum through the machinations of Victorian-era magicians, while Nolan’s pair of Batman blockbusters stitched the big action scenes together with brooding examinations