Christopher Nolan's "Following" begins with the dialogue between the two people at the beginning, and firstly introduces a superficial theme of the film - the following through a question-and-answer method. First of all, my wording here is trailing, which is not the same as the deep connotation of the film. The film tells the story of a low-level social figure who always thinks he is a writer who is lonely and lacks social interaction. In the endless confusion, he forms a stalking addiction. The pickpocket, who was bright but engaged in robbery, had some exchanges and collisions with him, and was gradually assimilated by the pickpocket, gradually changing from following to following. And then triggered the story between these two men and a rich woman. As far as the plot of the movie is concerned, it is indeed a highly completed drama, but if director Nolan's innovative blessings in the film's narration and film structure are added, this film is worthy of being a very good one. Suspense movie. Different from the direct narrative of some suspense films in the past, Director Nolan has adopted a brand-new method, allowing you to see the beginning, that is, the first paragraph, and when you see some features, then insert the second paragraph. , some new plots, but when the audience gradually understood this paragraph, the third paragraph jumped out, and immediately the third paragraph was connected with the first paragraph, so you are still trying to understand the second paragraph. At the same time, it also solved the doubts about the first plot, allowing the audience to experience the fun of solving puzzles while watching the movie. Nolan's movies need to use their brains. In fact, director Nolan's film narrative style and plot setting have gradually established his style. Take the following of this film as an example. It should have been a down-to-earth writer's follow-up of a well-dressed person, so that people would unanimously align this behavior with the theme of following, but on the contrary, at the end of the film. In the reversal of the novel, the writer confessed that he had a stalking habit, and emphasized that everything he did was framed by rich women and pickpockets. The writer thought he knew the pickpocket very well, but he didn't expect the pickpocket to know him better. All the writer's actions were the result of the pickpocket's subtle changes to him. All the exchanges between the pickpocket and the writer in the film are burying details. For example, the pickpocket used underwear to play with the first house he stole, and used the underwear in the rich woman's drawer to make the writer have more imagination about the rich woman. There is a box that belongs only to oneself, and the box is indeed each person's unique memories and secrets" Let the writer take the rich woman's box as his own, give the writer a signed credit card stolen from someone else's house and cause the credit card to eventually become stronger. Strong evidence, all of this is to point the murderer at the writer, even if you turn yourself in, it's no use, the writer just goes like this Assimilated by pickpockets, director Nolan is very good at using details and props to give people a sense of sudden realization. So the real tailgating of this film is the tailgating of a pickpocket to the writer, which is similar to a sense of routine and anti-routine. As the saying goes, nesting dolls, in fact, this kind of serial set was used at Nolan University. Do a search on the Internet for "Ant Flies", but in this movie, it is reflected in a more complete way of plot. Then there is Nolan's narrative method, which uses a non-linear narrative, which may cause many viewers to be somewhat incomprehensible when watching the first 10 minutes or so, but this is the advanced way of telling the story. This style of storytelling with individuality has become more and more frequent in Nolan's films, the most notable being "Memento" in 2000, which is also a type of suspense and a non-linear narrative. style becomes more mature. At the same time, I reviewed several of Nolan's films in the past few days, the purpose is to see what new breakthroughs director Nolan will make in the new film "Creed".
Nolan has his own cognition and understanding of movies, as he said, "I am Christopher Nolan, a typical Englishman, like my predecessor Hitchcock, not only a director, but also a whim. capable people."
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