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Following is a 1998 independent neo-noir crime thriller film written, produced, directed, photographed, and edited by Christopher Nolan in his feature film directorial debut. It tells the story of a young man who follows strangers around the streets of London, and is drawn into a criminal underworld when he fails to keep his distance.
A struggling, unemployed young writer (credited as "The Young Man") takes to following strangers around the streets of London, ostensibly to find inspiration for his first novel. Initially, he sets strict rules for himself regarding whom he should follow and for how long, but he soon discards them as he focuses on a well-groomed, handsome man in a dark suit. The man in the suit, having noticed he is being followed, quickly confronts the Young Man and introduces himself as "Cobb". Cobb reveals he is a serial burglar and invites the Young Man (who tells Cobb his name is "Bill") to accompany him on burglaries. The material gains from these crimes seem to be of secondary importance to Cobb. He takes pleasure in rifling through the personal items in his targets' flats and drinking their wine. He explains his true passion is using the shock of robbery, and violation of property, to make his victims re-examine their lives. He sums up his attitude thus: "You take it away, and show them what they had."
You can certainly see the seeds of Christopher Nolan's later work in his 1998 debut feature "Following," which I just saw for the first time and quite enjoyed.* And I'm not just referring to the auspicious Batman sticker on the door of its protagonist's flat (how could he have known... unless the past and the future were somehow folded together... ?) or the hommage to Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" (another movie in which past, present and future intermingle) next to the guy's typewriter.
It begins with an interrogation/confession. A young man named Bill (Jeremy Theobald, who brings a halting, naturalistic freshness to his voiceover and dialog) is being questioned by an older man (John Nolan) about his habit of following people just to see what they do and where they go. He kind of rationalizes that it's "research" (he wants to be a writer), but it seems more likely that he's unemployed and bored. There's an element of voyeurism at work, but it's not primarily sexual -- at least not at first. It's more like he doesn't really know much about people, and he's curious to see how they behave. He explains a thought experiment where he picks somebody out of a crowd at a football game and, suddenly, they become an individual to him.
Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.
Christopher Nolan has become a household name with the commercial success of his Dark Knight trilogy and movies like Inception (2010) and Interstellar (2014), but few are familiar with his first feature film, Following (1998).
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Released in 1998, Following is a true independent movie, and Nolan purposefully constructed it knowing he'd have almost no budget with which to work. The story follows The Young Man (Jeremy Theobald), a struggling writer who spends his days following strangers to see where their lives will lead them. His voyeurism quickly rebounds on him when he encounters Cobb (Alex Haw), a criminal who takes The Young Man under his wing. Cobb is also a voyeur of sorts, purposefully upending the lives of his victims by (to paraphrase his twisted ethos), "showing them what they have by taking it away." The Young Man is enthralled with Cobb's teachings, especially when they lead him to The Blonde (Lucy Russell), a femme fatale caught up with a crime boss (Dick Bradsell).
Playing with time is a neat trick to keep the story lively, but unlike Memento, Inception, Interstellar, or Dunkirk, Following isn't really about time as much as it's about a comforting lie (an idea Nolan returns to in Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, and Dunkirk). The great, delightfully mean-spirited twist in Following is that the protagonist is a writer who doesn't realize he's being told a story. The film functions almost as a mission statement of sorts against thoughtless voyeurism. Even at the start of the story when The Young Man is following people, he's more concerned with the rules of following rather than the outcomes. His excuse is that it's for his writing, but he never writes anything. Instead, he quickly becomes a pawn in Cobb's game.
This exultation of control reappears constantly through Nolan's movies, and any loss of control or mistaking one's control is a sign of weakness. Rarely does a character in a Nolan movie simply give themselves over to unpredictability, and if anything, they actively push back against chaos. Even a character like The Joker, who bills himself as "an agent of chaos" is a meticulous planner who is constantly two steps ahead of our heroes. It's not until you reach 2017's Dunkirk that survival as an act of defiance breaks the bounds of control. As Nolan has gotten older, he's slowly pushed himself to learn to love letting go (as seen in Interstellar), but in Following, that's The Young Man's downfall. He thinks he's in control by following, but he never had any control at all because he is, by definition, a follower rather than a leader.
Following is a 1998 British drama thriller movie directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell, and John Nolan. It was released on September 12, 1998. This was Christopher Nolan's first movie. It tells the story of a young man who follows strangers around the streets of London and is drawn into a criminal underworld when he fails to keep his distance.
Following is a 1998 Film that is directed by Christopher Nolan, Cinematography by Christopher Nolan, Produced by Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan, Jeremy Theobald, Composed by David Julyan and written by Christopher Nolan.
When a suave young man called Cobb, whom Bill is following, confronts him, Bill is drawn into Cobb's obsession with casual burglary. Cobb's greatest thrill is uncovering victims' secrets. Bill visits a club and tries to chat up a blonde woman who warns him the manager is her jealous former lover. She tells him she was burgled the day before. Another day, Bill visits the blonde in her smart flat and they begin an affair. It was Bill and Cobb who burgled her flat, inspiring Bill to follow her. Unknown to Bill, Cobb is actually the blonde's current lover. Together they are framing Bill for the murder of an old lady during one of Cobb's burglaries.
Filmed in black and white with a budget of about $6,000, Following is about a man who has a bizarre obsession with following people. Soon he falls in with a burglar and the pair enter into an intricate caper plot full of deception.
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Currently watching Following (1998) the first film by acclaimed writer and director Christopher Nolan. This low-budget, 16 mm black-and-white neonoir British film is a fragmented tale of an unemployed young writer who trails strangers through London, hoping that they will provide inspiration for his first novel. Things take a turn for the worse when one of his unwitting subjects leads him into a criminal underworld.
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