Hey guys welcome back to my channel, I'm
really excited to let you guys know that
I'm starting a series here on my channel
where I'm reviewing every single
Christopher Nolan movie and he has like
9 10
feature movies, I don't remember the
exact numbers. And I've seen most of them
but I haven't seen all of them and since
Tenet is coming out pretty soon
fingers crossed it doesn't get moved
anymore but I'm planning to review them
right before Tenet comes out. So I
would basically finish reviewing them
right before the movie comes out and
then I can do like a big gigantic
Christopher Nolan ranking video which
I'm very very excited about and I'm
starting off with a movie I actually
didn't even know existed until I
researched it the movies he has directed
and this one is called Following.
Following is about a young writer who
lives in London that follows random
people but later on it becomes more of
an obsession. Right off the bat I wanted
to talk about something I found really
interesting researching about this movie
and it's it's budget. This movie only had a six thousand dollar budget and
that's insane that's so so crazy
considering how crazy his movies are now
and just movies in general I had never
heard of a movie with this low of a
budget and I already thought that that
was pretty interesting. This is a great
example of a movie that shows that you
don't need to have really gigantic
effects, a really well-known director,
well-known cinematographer, a well-known
sound designer,
well-known actors, a movie in color to
like make a good movie and I was really
in shock at how good this movie was
for like what it was. This was basically
kind of like a student film in my
opinion even though Christopher Nolan
didn't go to film school. It felt like an
experimental trial and error type movie
and after I saw Memento which I'm very
excited to review I could see what he
was trying to do with this one and what
he eventually ended up doing in
and I think they have a lot of
similarities and although obviously
Memento is a better movie this one still
proved that you don't need to have so
much stuff to make a good movie the
script works great and it's just a movie
it doesn't need to have anything else
and it stands really well on its own. Wanted to start off by talking about the
actual plot and to start off I thought
it was really interesting to have this
character just like following people, and
what I also really liked was that he
wasn't just following people to do bad
things to them he was he was just
interested in their lives and I think
that's a very interesting dynamic to
have and a character trait. When I first
heard the description I assumed it was
something evil and like he wanted to
maybe kill these people or something
like that but he's just interested in
their day-to-day life like this is a
character that has rules for his
following which I thought was really
funny when he says that one of the rules
is um that if you figure out where they
live or where they work you can never
follow that person again and then the
line after that is that's the first rule
I broke and I thought that that was so
funny and like interesting to just say off
the bat like hey I broke my rules and
you already kind of get to understand
the character. I do wish we would have
been able to understand the characters a
little bit more. This movie is really
short it's like an hour long I think
almost 70 minutes, it's really short when
you compare it to like feature-length
movie. It's too short for like really
interesting characters you kind of just
get to the surface level so if it might
have been a little bit longer I would
have been able to understand the
characters just a tad bit more but for
what we were given I thought that that
was really interesting. Christopher Nolan
actually came up with this idea because
he was staying in London when he wrote
this movie and he was looking at London
and he realized how crowded that place
is and how there's so many people and
that's exactly how the main character
feels so you definitely see that
reflection going on
and Christopher Nolan also said that his
house had been robbed so he connected
the two into having a character that
just likes following people. I really
like just researching what directors
mindset was when writing a movie and he
made a pretty good one for this idea.
Something else that I really like about
this movie is how it's not set in
chronological order or I should say told
in chronological order there are many
like inserts and random scenes that you
don't understand like one of a guy with
a glove in his mouth and you're like
this is so irrelevant what's the point
of this and then it happens towards the
end and you get to really understand the
full picture and understand everything. I
really like when movies have a broken
narrative because it just makes it that
more interesting to watch and more
interesting to follow along because
you're dying to kind of fit it all
together and in your mind have a be
chronological order sometimes it's a
little bit hard to tell what order
things are in because since this is in
black and white like the whole movies in
black and white there's not like a color
difference to differentiate it so you
have to pay close attention till if the
character has longer hair shorter hair a
different outfit and sometimes it could
be a little bit confusing for the most
part I felt like he did a pretty good
job with that it was a little bit
confusing sometimes but he pulled it off
This movie isn't perfect like I said it
was his first feature film so I don't
take these negatives as that bad I have
seen way worse movies from directors
that like are supposed to know what
they're doing but this movie has some
negatives and one of them I would say is
the acting is sometimes a bit weird I did
look and apparently these were people he
knew so like I mean the budget is pretty
small so we obviously didn't have a big
budget to look for really amazing A-list
actors and these people aren't terrible
but sometimes it's a little bit like
okay, Also some action scenes seem often
very fake like there is a certain scene
where it involves a hammer and fingers
and you can definitely tell that they
didn't have enough budget to make it
better and like better stunt work so
some of them are a little bit iffy and
weird and the runtime is really short so
like I heard I already said I can't
really get that invested in the
storyline like I had wished but for what
he did have it was pretty good although
this movie isn't perfect and it is a
starter movie I do think it's a really
good starter movie and I have never
really seen a director's first work and
to see Christopher Nolan's which is a
director I really admire and he has
extraordinary movies to start off like
this I could already tell that like he
had a mindset of what type of filmmaker
he wanted to be and with that being said
I'm gonna give this movie a B. I
really recommend you guys checking this
out and hopefully it inspires you to
check out all of Christopher Nolan's
movies as I review them I'm really
excited to do Memento and a lot of other
movies so let me know if you guys have
seen this movie and what you thought
about it I would love to hear that and
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