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Why do you think it is strange?
Because it’s the name of a Norse god, an uncommon surname anywhere. Most people upon meeting a Detective Loki would be like WTF (even if they were, at the moment, going through the trauma of abduction).
The rest of the cast have names like Holly Jones, Nancy Birch, Ralph Dover, Bob Taylor. In a movie that’s shooting for stark realism, it seems a bit weird that the only fantastic element is the detective’s name, which is never acknowledged/explained.
So instead of being gripped by the storyline, the unraveling of the mystery, I was bugging my friends, asking them why the detective was named Loki, had I missed something. Which I’m sure (it was a while ago) they responded with who cares, idk, it’s a movie.
You could say it’s just overt symbolism, man. That the etymology of Loki is itself unknown.
Still seems out of place for emotional torture porn.