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  Review by Karsten ★★½ 51

  Solid proof that Nolan has always been Nolan both in how reliant he is on the score and how he doesn’t believe in women as characters.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★ 12

  A Christopher Nolan movie where people swear and have sex? This is madness

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★ 1

  Very much feels like a student film trying to emulate Nolan's style, so in other words, the most "first directorial feature" movie to ever be a first directorial feature

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★½

  The first spoken words of Christopher Nolan’s career: “The following is my explanation.”

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  Review by Emma Stefansky 2

  my utter lack of ability to fixate on anything but the batman sticker on that mark's door is what’s gonna finally turn me into a qanon conspiracy theorist

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  Review by Barmilliv ★★★

  "Following" conta a história de um escritor que começa a seguir pessoas na rua para ganhar inspiração para seu livro, que posteriormente se envolve com duas dessas pessoas: um metódico ladrão de casas chamado Cobb e uma personagem sem nome que o protagonista começa a seguir após roubar a casa dela. Entregar mais sobre a trama estragaria o cuidado com a narrativa que Nolan constrói nesse filme. Nolan já demonstra seu apreço pela fragmentação temporal, um recurso que ele exploraria de maneira ainda mais ambiciosa em seus filmes posteriores.

  Ao meu ver, a estrutura não linear soa mais como um truque para mascarar a previsibilidade do enredo. A premissa de Following tem grande potencial, especialmente quando pensamos no voyeurismo moderno…

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  Review by cinemacl🎃wn ★★★ 9

  Christopher Nolan's feature film debut presents the now esteemed filmmaker experimenting here with the narrative structure along with other aspects of filmmaking to carve out his own cinematic style & voice which in the subsequent years ended up playing a key role in his rise from an indie filmmaker to one of the most revered directors in the film industry today.

  Filmed on a shoestring budget, making use of only available light, captured in black n white, shot in limited locations and featuring an entirely inexperienced cast, Following tells the story of a struggling young writer who starts following strangers around the streets of London to find inspirations for his next novel and covers his descent into the criminal underworld when…

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  Review by noen ★★★★ 3

  What impresses me most about the film is in fact who directed it, Christopher Nolan transmits art in a surreal way, of course, this film is not perfect, but this being his first directorial debut with a feature-length film? It's simply impressive. If you know a little about Nolan you know how detailed he is and in this film, it is no different, we see a clock extremely similar to his other film Memento released years later (which turned out to be the same clock), with good eyes I was also able to analyze posters in the main character's room, and all of them, Casablanca, Sunset Blvd, The Shining, etc... are some of Nolan’s favorite films. Kubrick is one of…

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  Review by Kevin Tarazi. ★★★½ 6

  From the beginning Christopher Nolan showed us the potential he had as a filmmaker. Giving a solid first film that is also very interesting.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★

  A taut, stark, who's-deceiving-who neo-noir debut with some pretty impressive no-budget mood and style. You can tell the kind of harsher music sounds he gravitated towards even here. Between some of the look and camera movement choices you get the feeling watching it that Nolan thinks he's doing his version of something like Breathless but as is typical for him (around this time especially) it's built around a non-linear, literal-minded, twisty smart-guy plot that kinda stifles it from getting to a place like that. I do like going back to this era for him to see some of the darker, more perverse psychological obsessions and character relationships that got phased out of him after Memento and The Prestige, but will confess to finding this one a bit harder to take as grimly seriously as those two because the "burglar who... makes u think?" concept built into it is just so funny to me.

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗ ★★★ 1

  as if i needed more reason to not trust anyone!!!! thanks christopher nolan

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  Review by Travis Lytle ★★★ 2

  It is all here: misty, high-contrast imagery; themes of duality; twistily constructed narratives; and observations of inner human darkness. With "Following," Christopher Nolan lays the fundamental groundwork for the visual, thematic, and narrative conventions that will fill his later work. "Following" is both an impressive debut feature and a precursor of things to come.

  Nolan's first feature tells the story of man with an interesting method for researching a piece of work he is writing: he follows people. On the day he breaks his own set of following rules, he gets entangled with a ring of crime that will lead to his undoing. The narrative is compellingly nonlinear, creating crackling revelations, but it lacks a sense of urgency. It is…