Following: Clever and intricate Neo-Noir

Christopher Nolan's debut feature, Following, is amazingly clever, and its creation, nearly miraculous. The film that, with it's excellence, would come to open the doors for Memento, was shot on an estimated and hugely impressive budget of $6,000.

You take it away... and show them what they had.

Following, tells the story of a masterfully intricate noir style setup, which is already being built from early on in the film, but is so incredibly clever that you can really not suspect anything close to the actual outcome, until the very end. The film alternates between three different moments in the story, throughout its development, showing that Nolan's appreciation for parallel and non-linear storytelling, later seen in such works as Memento and Inception, was already part of him from the get-go. [...]