"Follow": The Peerless Thief

Frida 2022-10-04 00:53:06

A fake writer living on welfare, loitering around all day, finding the joy of following strangers by chance. For the past few days, when I was intoxicated and unable to extricate myself, I was suddenly discovered by the target who was following. After seeing through the embarrassment, the two had a chat. It turns out that the other party is also a homeless person and a professional thief. The two hit it off with each other, and the fake writer immediately went to work with the professional thief, picking the door and pressing the lock to sell off countless stolen goods. The counterfeit writer made a lot of money overnight, had the opportunity to pass the time in and out of the bar, and happened to get acquainted with a beautiful girl. One to two hook up and become a partner, while continuing to learn professional stealing skills, while trying to solve the problem for the girl and save it. As everyone knows, he is stepping into the trap that has been prepared for a long time. Professional thieves are fake, girls are fake, and there is a huge secret between thieves and girls. When the fake writer finally sat in front of the police and explained the whole experience, he suddenly realized that the result of following others turned out to be an inexplicable conspiracy.

If there are talented directors, Christopher Nolan deserves to be one of them. Not to mention "Memento", "Batman" and "Inception", this rough black and white film with a length of only 69 minutes is enough to establish the status of a genius director. Although this is only a film with a production cost of only 6,000 US dollars, the actors still come to work part-time after work, and can only gather once a week for a short filming. It took a full year to complete the whole work, and all the links It's all DIY, and everyone has to bring their own clothes. Even under such unimaginable circumstances, Nolan completed this masterpiece with great dedication, making the subsequent "Memento" more like a natural harvest.

Instead of using conventional narrative techniques, first smash all the fragments and then re-splicing them together. After various narrations, under the atmosphere of a literary film, after a brain teaser after a brain teaser, a stunned and shocking lie was revealed. This is the ultimate performance of a talented director, who does not follow any traditional techniques and breaks all rules and systems. Between the ordinary, there is a huge hidden energy gathered, just to get an unparalleled perfect explosion at the last moment. Just thinking about such a movie-watching experience will make people excited. Nolan uses only rough and simple techniques to let the audience easily achieve fatal pleasure. Even if he is a red-green color blind patient, he cannot stop the volatilization of this rare energy. By the way, the thief in the film is really handsome. Not only is he personable and elegant, but his analysis of things is even more precise and exquisite, and he is ruthless and ruthless. "Although what you are doing is robbery, you don't have to look like a robber." This sentence will surely become a famous sentence that thieves in the world must follow.

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Extended Reading

Following quotes

  • [last lines]

    The Policeman: Is this your handwriting?

    Bill: Yes

  • [first lines]

    Bill: The following is my explanation. Well, more of an account of what happened. I'd been on my own for a while and getting kind of lonely... and bored... nothing to do all day. And that's when I started shadowing.

    The Policeman: Shadowing?

    Bill: Shadowing - Following. I started to follow people

    The Policeman: Who?

    Bill: Anyone at first. Um,

    [sniffs]

    Bill: you know, that was the whole point - somebody at random, someone who didn't know who I was.

    The Policeman: And then?

    Bill: And then nothing.