Following (1998)

Plot:A young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.

Bill, Jeremy Theobald, is an inspiring writer who hasn't gotten anything published as of yet. Bill also has an odd and strange habit, he likes to follow people.Bill picks out some stranger in the streets diner or on the subway, metro, and follows them as if he were their shadow.Bill has a simple rule that he follows religiously when he follows someone : after you follow him or her to their home or place of work you stop.
One day Bill follows Cobb, Alex Haw, home and instead of following his rule of stopping he still keeps following Cobb. Bill will soon realize how right he was with that rule he set for himself in following people and at the same time how wrong he was by breaking it.
Amazingly good low-budget movie made by Christopher Noland in 1998 before he hit it big in Hollywood with his ground-breaking and original motion picture classic "Momento" some two years later that has already become a major cult movie."Following" is far more direct and devastating as compared to "memento" and you don't have to see it over and over to get just what it was trying to tell."Following" is a story within a story within a story with one of the most surprising as well as simply manipulated ending, if you watch the movie again and notice the clues, that you'll ever see.
Made with an unbelievably small budget of $6,000 with a no-name cast in black and white and just over one hour, 69 minutes, long.
Nolan is in my opinion, the next great and our first taste of Nolan doesn't contradict that.The script here is Nolan's finest. I had some doubts about his writing abilities, I all ways imagined that his brother Jonathon was the writing talent but he proves me wrong with Following. It is a thought provoking story which makes interesting observations of people and how they function. Cobb's assessments about burglarizing and how it can lead you to discover what makes people tick actually sounds plausible.
4/5 brilliant movie.