Lapland, or Film Noir

This story is a review for a movie of the film noir genre. It becomes fantasy when the film critic becomes a part of Lapland in the end. My initial reaction to the story was that it seemed a lot like Sin City, the movie that came out in 2005.

I think that as the film critic becomes a part of Lapland, he loses reality. He slowly becomes one of the psychopaths in the story which are prone to "blackouts and spells of amnesia." This has caused parts of his review to fade away. Why are his memories starting to fade around deaths?