Story: For Christopher Nolan’s first feature film, this is REALLY good. He wrote the whole thing, thought of the story by himself, and it was a really good story. Since it is a Nolan film, I expected some “HOLY CRAP” moments. The holy crap moment towards the end isn’t really “HOLY CRAP” worthy, but it was more like “Holy crap”. So I liked this one. I certainly felt the Nolanness of this one, it was very good. Nolan does it again by making us think of things were never thought of, like what do burglars think when they’re going through someone’s things in their home. All I’ll say about the end is, I feel bad for Bill, or as it says in the credits “The Young Man”.
Visuals: I heard that Nolan shot this in black and white since he didn’t have any lighting gear. This is a clever move and a tip to DIY filmmakers of this age. Sure, there are programs with color correction, but many people do not not that to have good color correction, no matter what softwares you have, color grading and lighing come in too. Many people don’t even know the difference between color correction and color grading. I know… so sad…
Music: This had very little music throughout. David Julyan, who also composed many other of Nolans films like Memento and The Prestige, composed this one. I only really heard one piece of music which seemed to be the theme, but overall, I liked it really. So haunting.
Characters: Jeremy Theobald and Alex Haw did great in this. Lucy Russel was great too. Nolan did a great job of bringing out the best of not-professional actors.
Rewatch Value: I’d probably watch this again sometime to gather intelligence on films, since I”m a DIY filmmaker myself. Pretty good to watch if you want to learn since it’s the beginning of one of the best filmmakers in Hollywood of all-time, let alone today.
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