Breaking certain norms can lead to negative consequences, particularly when strangers are involved and their intentions are unclear.
A person looking for ideas for his book characters begins an experiment: The experiment involves randomly selecting a person from a crowd and monitoring their movements. However, he has established a rule to regulate this behavior. The rule is to notice random people rather than specific people and not follow them for too long. Naturally, when he violates this rule, he faces significant consequences.
Patience => intrigue => thrill => desperation => mesmerization in under 69 minutes!!! That's it!!! That is what the audience's reaction cycle will be like when witnessing this groundbreaking masterwork from Chris Nolan. The classic 'The Killing' by Kubrick (his idol) has had a significant impact. Pure brilliance and logic have always caught my attention. Due to budget limits, passionate young Nolan opted to shoot the entire film in 16mm black and white and cast a friend, Jeremy Theobald, with whom he had previously collaborated on the cult-classic psychological short film 'Doodlebug'.
Favorite quote: "Have you ever been at a football match and let your eyes rise and drift across a crowd of people, then slowly start to fix on one person, and all of a sudden that person isn't part of the crowd anymore? They've become individuals, just like that."
