Title: Great Memento trial run
Product review: Everyone was rightly blown away by Memento, and the director is now rightly one of the most admired around. He smashed the logic of temporal sequences and pasted them together in a way that made his story, already inherently interesting, unfold like a wonderful puzzle. With Following we see that talent in development. Once again the temporality of the story is not linear. This makes the ending seem like dozens of secrets finally revealed. This film is also a well exectued bit of noire cinema, as our heor Bill runs into a dirty world of pretenders out to use him for their own good. The premise, that Bill shadows or follows people to learn about humanity and how that curioisty leads him into the heart of a noire masterpeice, is as interesting and dark as Memento. Everything you see in the film is important, pay attention. Lighting, pace, camera work are all exceptional.
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