Following(Christopher Nolan)

For my movie I watched Following. The film begins with an interview between two men, one of whom is telling the story of how he started following people. As the man tells his story, his narration is overlaid with scenes of him actually following people until one of the people he was following confronts him. This person, who becomes known as Cobb, who happens to be a person who likes to break into other people's houses. The main character then decides to go along with Cobb and join him on a few burglaries, and eventually even begins a relationship with one of the people whom the two of them had burglarized. However we eventually learn that this was no accident, that Cobb and this woman had plotted to trap him and get him caught for burglary so as to throw off suspicion from Cobb for a murder of an old lady, or at least that is what the woman is told. The movie ends where it begins, coming full cycle as the main character concludes his interview with a person that we now know to be a policeman to whom he was attempting to report the events that he had been manipulated in. However he and the viewer are thrown for a curveball when it is reported that no old woman was murdered and in fact the woman he was reporting had been murdered, by Cobb as the viewer finds out, and that the evidence is overwhelming against the main character. Ultimately everybody except Cobb, ironically the only person given an actual name on the official cast list, finds themselves used and outmaneuvered. This is a very unique movie, with one of the chief curiosities being that the entire film is shot in noir. The other interesting thing about this movie is the fact that the scenes are out of order. This creates absolute confusion throughout the movie, as the viewer is every bit as in the dark as the characters, until the big reveals come one after the other and the viewer is given as much of a shock as the characters. This creates a very personal feel in the movie, reinforced by the massive dominance of medium and close up shots. The viewer feels like they are in the movie and it is a very interesting and unique take on a film. I would give this movie a 7 out of 10 and would watch again.