: Start the week with a film: ‘Following’ is where it all began for Christopher Nolan #IndiaNEWS The more Christopher Nolan befuddles his followers, the greater their admiration. If you have entirely

Start the week with a film: ‘Following’ is where it all began for Christopher Nolan #IndiaNEWS
The more Christopher Nolan befuddles his followers, the greater their admiration. If you have entirely understood any of Nolan’s recent films, especially Tenet (2020), then the director is clearly not doing something right.Nolan’s breakthrough was Memento (2002), in which a widower suffering from short-term memory loss uses tattoos and Polaroid photographs to hunt down his wife’s murderers. AR Murgadoss stole Nolan’s ideas for his 2005 Tamil film Ghajini, remade with the same name in Hindi three years later. There was no looking back for Nolan after Memento: he went on to make such blockbusters as Inception, the rebooted Batman trilogy, and Interstellar. Several of these films are characterised by existential themes, spectacularly staged action sequences and the visual panache that has been made possible by Nolan’s influence in Hollywood.Nolan’s most accessible film is arguably his feature debut, Following (1998). Set in London, where Nolan was born, the black-and-white movie contains the seeds of Nolan’s preoccupations over the rest of his career. Following is being streamed on AMC, which is available in India through Amazon Prime Video.Apart from directing Following, Nolan served as writer, editor, cinematographer and producer. His control over the entire creative process was already evident in his first feature, in which the process of piecing together a cinematic narrative is synonymous with the act of...Read more

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