Following (1998).
This British modern day B-noir film was made by Christopher Nolan before he build a name himself with the Batman trilogy. It was done with a shoe string budget but managed to be a blockbuster with its unique non linear storytelling technique where the story rolls front and back confusing the audience only to understand everything at the end. It is black and white, involves crime, a beautiful blonde and a dead body, viola film noir.
It is a story about a writer (no name) who has a fetish for following people (hence the title). He follows people just to get idea for his writing.
And he breaks his own self made first rule, not to follow the same person twice.
A guy he follows (Cobb) confronts him, thinking that he is a cop. They built a relationship and they go on pilfering expedition into people's apartment. The young man develops a liking for one of his victims. He follows her to a pub and gets close to her. She tells him a sob story about her ex-boyfriend who is a mobster and pub owner who killed a man in her apartment. He keeps incriminating photos of her in his safe. She gives him the combination to the safe and our hero breaks into the safe. Unfortunately, he hits an intruder with a hammer and kills him.
The young man confronts the lady who tells him of how he was taken for a ride and Cobb is actually her lover. Cobb was just looking for a sucker to get the police confused as a lady had seen him during one of burglaries.
The young man goes over to the police and reveals everything. Unfortunately, the police puts all the blame squarely on him. Even the blonde, the femme fatale is bludgeoned to death by Cobb and the homicide is pinned on him as the same hammer was used. The forwarding address of Cobb that he gives the police turned out to be a phony. In fact, the occupant reported of loss of credit card which was traced to the young man who used it once.
Cobb mysteriously disappears. That is it!
A good film.
This British modern day B-noir film was made by Christopher Nolan before he build a name himself with the Batman trilogy. It was done with a shoe string budget but managed to be a blockbuster with its unique non linear storytelling technique where the story rolls front and back confusing the audience only to understand everything at the end. It is black and white, involves crime, a beautiful blonde and a dead body, viola film noir.It is a story about a writer (no name) who has a fetish for following people (hence the title). He follows people just to get idea for his writing.
And he breaks his own self made first rule, not to follow the same person twice.
A guy he follows (Cobb) confronts him, thinking that he is a cop. They built a relationship and they go on pilfering expedition into people's apartment. The young man develops a liking for one of his victims. He follows her to a pub and gets close to her. She tells him a sob story about her ex-boyfriend who is a mobster and pub owner who killed a man in her apartment. He keeps incriminating photos of her in his safe. She gives him the combination to the safe and our hero breaks into the safe. Unfortunately, he hits an intruder with a hammer and kills him.
The young man confronts the lady who tells him of how he was taken for a ride and Cobb is actually her lover. Cobb was just looking for a sucker to get the police confused as a lady had seen him during one of burglaries.
The young man goes over to the police and reveals everything. Unfortunately, the police puts all the blame squarely on him. Even the blonde, the femme fatale is bludgeoned to death by Cobb and the homicide is pinned on him as the same hammer was used. The forwarding address of Cobb that he gives the police turned out to be a phony. In fact, the occupant reported of loss of credit card which was traced to the young man who used it once.
Cobb mysteriously disappears. That is it!
A good film.
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