Directed by:
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David JulyanCast:
Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell, John Nolan, Barbara Stepansky, Dick Bradsell, Gillian El-Kadi, Jennifer Angel, Nicolas Carlotti, Darren Ormandy (more)VOD (3)
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An unemployed aspiring "writer" Bill (Jeremy Theobald) has a peculiar hobby, shadowing strangers at random in the streets of London. When Cobb (Alex Haw), a man Bill has been following, catches him in the act, Bill is drawn into Cobb's world of breaking into flats and prying into the personal lives of their victims. In Bob, Bill finds a strange companion - part mentor, part confessor and part evil twin. With an ingenious structure that involves flash forwards and doubling back, the film tests our knowledge and understanding just as the protagonist is being duped into an elaborate triple-cross. (official distributor synopsis)
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Nolan’s low-budget feature-length debut, where he used a storytelling style similar to The Prestige. You can easily recognize the themes and means of expression that he eventually develops to absolute perfection in his later work. Following has a lot to offer even when you already know later, more famous movies from this director. It perfectly captures atmosphere of the London suburbs perfectly, has decent actors and, most importantly, a very well written and original screenplay. Jeremy Theobald is definitely worth mentioning, who already appeared in Nolan’s short, Doodlebug. It’s a terrible shame that, with exception of those two, he never appeared in anything else, because he is a really good actor, has charisma as well and his voice is specifically his, like few others.
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I didn't like Memento with its non-linear progression and I didn't like Following either. The motive is interesting, the film is fast-paced and the story is attractive, but this skipping of times and scenes that don't make sense at first just doesn't work for me, and neither do the black and white visuals. Anyway, Christopher Nolan’s debut is very progressive and timeless.
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Christopher Nolan is a great director and I personally look forward to every film he comes up with. Yes, the Batman films are mainly responsible for that, but Memento already won me over. But in the case of Following, I was quite disappointed. Even though it's visually interesting, and even though it has good acting and a good script, it just didn't grab me.
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Perhaps not as subtly thought out (even though... :))) as Nolan's top pieces, but already here – in his (and it must be said very successful) debut Christopher Nolan shows his undeniable writing and directing abilities, which he manages to bring to near perfection over the course of his subsequent work. The first 30-40 minutes or so I may have been a little bored at times, but once the reveal (actually, two reveals :))) came, I was completely engrossed.
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At first, it appears like Nolan is going to explore the depths of the soul of one miserable voyeur. After a while, however, he deftly twists the plot into a dark thriller, where the viewer cannot be sure even of the focus of the characters, let alone the next few minutes. The artful editing (the story takes place over three time planes) and the director's work as a precise turner create a film for which I can’t help but nod my head in approval. The ending can also shake hands with Singer's The Usual Suspects, no question about it.
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