In my opinion, Bill was an extremely lonely young man who was excluded from life. He was almost completely cut off from the world because his eyes were always on the inside and he was neglected to communicate with the outside world. However, man is always a social creature, so "following" becomes his minimal way of participating in life. Realizing that his behavior was on the verge of psychopathic behavior, Bill tried to prevent himself from getting out of control by establishing rational norms, such as being completely random, with no prior goals; not following a subject for too long; Followed by a lady after dark and so on. The norm works well at first, but when "it stops this randomness, things start to slowly go bad". In addition to the beginning and end of Bill's narrative of the police, there are only three protagonists in the film: Bill, Cobb and a mysterious and beautiful woman. And there is no psychological activity in the whole film, it is composed of paragraphs of dialogue. Different from the usual form of film sequence, "Following" uses flashbacks and interludes. In the 70-minute long film, there are always unexpected, but also reasonable, which is very similar to Hitch Kirk's suspense drama. For example, Bill actually let Cobb steal his own home. Cobb actually knew it but pretended not to know; Bill and Cobb stole the mysterious woman's home together, and finally the audience knew that the mysterious woman Bill loved was actually Cobb's lover ; In the end, Cobb turned out to be sent by the bald old man to kill the mysterious woman. Each of the protagonists in the film lives in a lie, and they all harbor ghosts but cannot tell anyone. That's what makes Nolan's films so appealing, so compact that no single shot is superfluous. After reading it, I sighed at the complexity of human nature and the wonders of society. The hard-to-decipher character in the film is Cobb, who came from nowhere, left a meaningful back at the end of the film, and disappeared into the crowd. This is the charm of Hitchcock-style suspense dramas, which make people reminisce and think deeply. . . . . .
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