It only cost $6,000, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the big productions such as "Inception" and "Deadly Magic".
I watched those big productions first, and then came back to watch this debut work. From the complicated to the simple, there is a fresh feeling. The single-lens hand-held camera, black and white images, is always reminiscent of Hitchcock.
There is not much to say about the story, a set of a set, a set of plans, a serial deception. Breaking down the timeline to tell the story, Nolan's style was distinct from the start.
There were only three or four official roles, and neither the blonde nor the policeman even had their own names. The two male protagonists, Bill is a very common name, it is hard to say whether it is true or not; Cobb, isn't this the role of Xiao Lizi in "Inception"?
Officially named in the film is a credit card they stole, Danny Lloyd, the actor in Kubrick's "The Shining" Little Boy. - Nolan is a Kubrick fan. Bill's room in this "Trailing" has a poster of "The Shining", the famous "Here's Johnny". And Marilyn Monroe, Quentin's Reservoir Dogs, Casablanca, and Sunset Blvd.
There was a picture of Batman on the door of the room - the ideal is still there, and Nolan later directed the Dark Knight trilogy.
Cobb's wise words:
Everyone has a box.
Just because you broke into people's homes doesn't mean you need to look like a fucking burglar.
You're developing a taste for it - the violating, the voyeurism... it's definitely you.
It's like a diary. They hide it. But actually they want someone to see it. That's what I do.
That's what it's all about - interrupting someone's life, making them see all the things they took for granted. Like when they go back and buy all this stuff from the shelves with the insurance money, they'll have to think for the first time in a long time why they wanted all this stuff, what it's for. You take it away, and show them what they had.
Without further ado, I'm going to see his Memento.
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