"Follow" is a great movie I watched recently. Stand out from a bunch of relatively long and protracted movies, and your eyes shine. Of course, thank you Xiao Shi.
At the beginning of the film, in the quiet film atmosphere, a male monologue was quietly narrated. Tell another. The dialogue pictures and the narrated story pictures alternately appear. The protagonist of the narrative is Bill, the protagonist of the movie. Bill said that he likes to follow other people and peek into other people's lives. At this time, another protagonist is introduced, an object that Bill arbitrarily trails-Cobb. This can be seen as a manifestation of the first meaning of trailing. Bill has been following Cobb for a few days, following him everywhere, curiously imagining his life. Until Cobb walked up to Bill and said, who are you and why follow me. After the first-level follow-up relationship was immediately broken, Bill found out that Cobb was a burglar. After Cobb took a fancy to Bill's strong lust for voyeurism, he invited him to commit the crime and taught him how to steal. The story here is just the beginning.
In the process of the movie, there will be another story line besides the development of Cobb and Bill's story from time to time, another man's face. It seems that the two main lines are going on at the same time without any explanation. When the other story line appears, it feels abrupt and confused. The two scenes alternate. A man in a short-haired suit strikes up a blonde woman in a bar, has a good impression of her, and takes her home. For the first time, the man's home was presented in front of the screen. This is a detail. In the next scene, Bill takes Cobb to steal the home of a man who has appeared before. The woman said her house was stolen. Since these two simultaneous story lines are not carried out in parallel chronological order, in the process of alternation, people will have more and more questions: What is the relationship between this woman and the story? Who is that man? ...And as the story develops, two seemingly unrelated parallel main lines gradually merge together, and the second-level trailing relationship is immediately revealed.
Cobb took Bill and stole the house of the woman above. Because of the failure of the first theft, Bill was guilty and frightened as a thief, and Cobb suggested that Bill change his image. It was only then that the man in the short-haired suit who appeared above was Bill after a facelift. Bill changed completely. By this time Bill had fallen in love with the woman. The woman hinted that she had something to do with the gang boss and had a photo in the hands of the gang boss. Bill volunteered to help the woman steal it back, using the stealing technique called Cobb. Bill stole the photo back with the safe code given by the woman, stole the money and injured someone by the way, only to find that the photo was not a handle at all. Bill was deceived. It is only here that the movie reveals to us the trailing in the second sense: the woman is actually Cobb’s woman. Cobb found him before Bill followed him, followed him, and asked his own woman to seduce him and make Bill become The second person who used the same method of stealing as Cobb was to get rid of the suspicion of a case that Cobb was involved in before. In other words, Cobb cooperated with the woman to make Bill become Cobb's scapegoat.
However, the movie is far from over. The screen continues to return to the dialogue scene at the beginning. After learning about Cobb and the woman's conspiracy, Bill surrendered to the police to protect himself. The dialogue is exactly the dialogue between Bill and the police. There was no one on Kobucha, and the woman Bill mentioned to the police was also found killed in her house. Bill became the murderer in the eyes of the police who killed a woman in order to obtain the code of the gang boss safe from the woman. Here, we can see the ultimate goal of this conspiracy. There was no case in Cobb's mouth, it was just a pretense to deceive a woman. Why lie to women? Because of the help of the man, Bill was drawn into the plot to kill the woman as a scapegoat. Why do you want to kill a woman? Because the woman held evidence of the gang boss and threatened the gang boss, the boss sent Cobb to kill him. This is the trailing relationship in the third sense of the movie. The woman helped Cobb to blame Bill, thinking that she could help Cobb out of crime. I didn't think I was just a piece of Cobb's chess piece. The goal is to get rid of her.
At this point, you have to admire the director's ingenious and sophisticated ideas. Link by ring, layer by layer, every detail can be the foreshadowing of the next plot. Who is the ultimate manipulator? Cobb? Gangster boss? Maybe neither. Everyone in the movie seems to be himself, living according to his own choice, and no one is forcing anyone to do something. Why did the seemingly free choices of different people add up to such a result, and the conspiracy finally succeeded? Who is whose pawn and who is used by whom? What is controlling all this? Is it human selfishness or voyeurism? I think this is the most interesting part of the movie.
So we know that even in black and white, there are only simple scene changes, and telling a story is always the most important and most attractive part of a movie.
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