Following

1998

Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller

69
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 84% · 38 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 101262 101.3K

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Plot summary

Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.


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August 25, 2018 at 12:45 PM

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John Nolan as The Policeman
Jeremy Theobald as The Young Man
Lucy Russell as The Blonde
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hall895 8 / 10

No budget? No problem.

After watching Memento one might well wonder how Christopher Nolan pulled off something that audacious, that brilliant, in what was his major directorial debut. Watch Following, the no-budget thriller which was Nolan's actual directorial debut, and you begin to understand. With no money, with an amateur cast and doing pretty much everything (writing, shooting, directing) himself Nolan created a little masterpiece. Whatever "it" is that enables someone to make great movies Nolan clearly has it. And had it right from the beginning.

Fans of Memento will see a lot of similarities, hints of what was to come, in Following. The most obvious parallel is the nonlinear time structure as the story here unfolds completely out of order. Whereas the story in Memento proceeded more or less in a straight line which just happened to be moving backwards here there is no line at all. Scenes are placed in a seemingly random order. We're all over the place. At the end, in the beginning, somewhere in the middle, back to the end again...it really could have been a jumbled mess. But Nolan gives us a little assistance in orienting ourselves with the shifting appearance of his main character. He has three distinct looks to him and once you figure that out you can figure out where you are in the story. But there are still enough twists and turns to make your head spin, to keep you guessing right up to the end.

The less said about the plot the better. Best to let you try to piece the puzzle together for yourself. Much like Memento you really have to see it all the way through to fully appreciate the true genius of it, to understand how any missteps from Nolan along the way could have unraveled his whole story. When the movie concludes you can't help but be amazed that Nolan could pull this off essentially by himself. At least with Memento he had a little help. Here it's just Nolan and his small cast. There are really only three roles of any significance in the film, maybe four if you're being generous. But this little troupe and their first-time director combined to create something really special. The acting may at times seem a bit amateurish but that has to be expected from performers who are certainly not acting pros. And any little quibbles with the performances do not detract at all from the overall movie-watching experience. The actors do more than well enough to get by, well enough in fact that you're surprised there were not bigger acting roles for them somewhere down the line if they wanted them. That the performers have a great story to work with certainly helped their cause.

Things do get a little convoluted in the end as Nolan's story takes its final turns. You worry that things may be getting away from him a little bit. But he manages to ultimately pull it all together. You may have to really think about it after things are through but it all makes sense when you run it back in your mind. And it's nice every now and again to have a movie that actually requires you to think isn't it? Christopher Nolan seems to specialize in movies like that. He just makes great movies. Here he did it with no money, all on his own, never having made a movie before. It takes a special talent to pull that off. And among his many talents Nolan also apparently possesses the ability to see into his own future. When you watch Following note the Batman logo on the main character's apartment door.

Reviewed by MartinHafer 7 / 10

Worth seeing if you are a Nolan completist.

"Following" is Christopher Nolan's first full-length film and because he was such a new and untested director, he had to make it on the cheap...without studio money. As a result, he made it with friends on the weekends and eventually finished and released the movie. It's a bit rough looking (particularly because it was shot in black & white and has 'no-name' actors), it is an interesting story.

The film is about a very strange man due to his weird, obsessive hobby. He enjoys following people around town...and does nothing more. He just picks a person and follows them for a while..studying them like some sort of scientist. However, later, he follows the wrong person...a guy who realizes he's being followed and who is also really weird. This 'followee' has a weird obsession of his own...to break into folks homes while they're gone. But it's not about robbery...he might take a small souvenir or make himself a drink...but it's all about the thrill of breaking the law. But there is MUCH more to this followee than you'd think.....and it's for the follower to eventually discover.

For the money, this is an awfully good film. Now this does NOT mean I liked watching it, I didn't. But it is well made and interesting...and worth seeing if you are the type to see all of a director's or actor's films and are trying to see the Nolan flicks.

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 6 / 10

interesting premise

The jobless protagonist recounts his story to an older man. He has been Shadowing or Following random strangers. One of his biggest rule is never follow the same person twice. He breaks that rule causing him his problem. Cobb confronts him for following him thinking initially he's a cop. Cobb is a burglar and soon, he pulls him into his voyeuristic world. They break into The Blonde's apartment and he becomes fascinated with her. He chats her up at her possessive boyfriend's bar. She tells him that her gangster boyfriend is blackmailing her with incriminating photos and he agrees to break into his safe to retrieve the photos. Unbeknownst to him, Cobb and The Blonde actually know each other.

This is Christopher Nolan's low budget black-and-white indie. It has an interesting premise of a guy who follows people around. It intrigued me and so does Cobb. He's a weird magnetic character. Nolan is also playing with flash-forwards which actually distracts from the story. He figures out how to separate the timelines in Memento with color and black-and-white. In this movie, it confuses matters and disrupts the flow. The ending has a few convenient unlikely turns to make Cobb's scheme work. The movie starts off very well but gets a bit problematic.

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