Sunday, February 20, 2011

Following.

In 1998 Christopher Nolan (director of Memento, The Dark Night, and Inception) came out with his debut Following. He wrote and directed this film, a black and white, art nouveau, thriller about a writer (Bill) who has a taste for following men and women around London. The movie start when Bill is confronted by a man he followed named Cobb. Now with out giving to much away Cobb is the master here, Bill is his hungry apprentice, and together they take Bill's obsession with following to another level. Cobb is not to be underestimated in the film, I assure you, notice how he begins to mold Bill into a new kind of follower, one who no longer gets a rush from seeing people's daily routines alone, no no now bill needs more. He needs item's belong to the followed, he needs to enter their homes, and he needs to keep changing himself and his image to keep following. I don't want to write to much on the film as it is a thriller and it is devilishly smart. Just watch it. The movie runs about an hour and ten minutes and though it may seem slow paced in the beginning I ask you to stick with it, the ending of Following will leave your jaw on the floor. Nolan with his first film nailed it, Brava Sir. The movie is streaming on Netflix. Check out the trailer.

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