When you think of Nolan, what can you think of? Genius, high-quality, box-office guarantee or "Inception", "Batman", "Memento"? These are the labels that come to our mind when we mention Nolan, but today I want to talk about his Virgo "Trailing", which tells us one very important thing, that the great director has never been It's crazy to start with.
In just 70 minutes, Nolan told us a perfect crime with a rigorous structure, a powerful narrative, an interesting story, and a literary connotation. The story subtly used the relationship between Zen, praying man and sparrow, and subverted the previous one at the last moment. Everything in , perfectly deduced a day and night, do you think you guessed the ending? I thought I was a writer? Leave you, who was just beginning to be complacent, bewildered, and admit that your IQ is a hard injury. The rough black-and-white quality is a bit Hitchcock-like, but it belongs to Nolan's own style.
The first half of this film is a real literary film. Starting from Bill's self-report, a young man who is withdrawn, unemployed and has special hobbies entertains himself in a barren life. He uses the excuse or fact to find inspiration to go to "Following" people, imagining their lives based on where they go, when they go home, what they wear, etc. and intoxicated by it, unable to extricate themselves, but dare not admit that he is a writer, he tries to set a lower limit for himself to follow others, But it was broken little by little after a long time, and the complete disintegration came after the trailing action was discovered by Cobb.
Cobb is a steady and confident Jianghu veteran, and he is familiar with dealing with people like Bill. Bill's extreme embarrassment and lack of self-confidence shows that he is an embarrassed young man who is excluded from life but still wants to live. On the contrary, Cobb is a pair of life master gesture. The two are not the same, but they can hit it off. Cobb is also a person with special hobbies. He likes to go to other people's houses to take things that he thinks are meaningful, and he is full of high-level literary and artistic atmosphere, so the two began to cooperate here. A kind of extreme evil taste to find the joy of life.
Compared with Cobb's mature and methodical, Bill's various performances show that he can only be manipulated by Cobb, and through Cobb, Bill stole and followed a gangster's woman. The film is still a literary style of fringe characters' hearts, until Bill skillfully played Cobb's routine and fell in love with the woman.
Bill confessed their theft to the woman because of his love. The woman told Bill about his difficulties and told him that he had a handle on the gang boss. Under the blind guidance of love, Bill decided to take risks for love and find the so-called handle. On the other hand, the director told us that Cobb and the women were in the same group. They just wanted Bill to be a scapegoat. Bill was finally found in a pool of blood by the administrator, and he was playing this delicate game for himself and Cobb. , The embarrassed and unbearable woman who laughed at Bill didn't know that her life was the next part of the game, because she had the handle of the gang boss, and the scapegoat was still Bill, who had the same style of crime as Cobb, and Cobb, in the end, Check no such person.
This film, which is full of dark atmosphere, uses various episodes, flashbacks, memories and other subjective and chaotic fragments to narrate, which makes the viewers have more and more doubts in several non-parallel and seemingly reasonable narrative lines, but it does not. At the last moment, I couldn't guess why. In the end, a perfect golden cicada escaped from the shell. Kebucha had no such person, and the man named Kebu set up a person who was used in the end without anyone else's knowledge. Forcing the game, the word "following" has three meanings in the movie, which are reflected in the three characters.
The movie gives people an absurd but cool feeling, from what the manipulator sees in this conspiracy, the olive branch of various desires and desires for destruction, the track of the departure of dreams and reality, the annihilation of all ordinary and ordinary, everyone in the movie They are all in their normal lives, so who is the manipulator, Cobb? ? or us? From God's point of view, there are many different opinions.
The shock at the end of the movie is still filled with sadness. In this world, there are people who rely on stalking and burglary to gain pleasure or a sense of existence. There are people who disappear after finishing the game, and there are people who think they are playing with others. , the result is that they are only cooperating with others to murder their own people. These people are on the fringes of society. No matter what attitude these people use, they seem to be alone, without friends or family. When these people die, it seems that no one else can be involved. , These people seem to have nothing to do with the world, just like the name Cobb, and Cobb is like a magician. After using this name to make a magic trick, he turned around and went to the next one, and there was nothing left when he turned back.
The beginning and the end of the film are the same self-narration of Bill, and the whole film is like Bill's messy and subjective memory. This film presents the connotation and emotions of a literary film, and also achieves a thoughtful and suspenseful reasoning, combined with The perfect narrative tells us that a great director is great from the start.
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