Christopher Nolan!

As I sit here and write this post, he is looking over my shoulder.. asking me to get on with it and get to doing what I should do... watch "Following". You should be looking at me with disapproving eyes and saying "tut tut .. get to work!" But even the meanest and most cold-hearted person would not grudge me a Sunday 10 o'clock movie at the end of a hard week. I listened to 7 seminars this week. Yes, SEVEN! and most of our string seminars are never-ending. There is a particular guy who loves to talk so much that none of his talks last less than a heart wrenching, soul tearing three solid hours. You would be asking yourself all sorts of questions about existence and existentialism during his talks... but let us not digress.

The bottom-line of this post is that I like Chris Nolan. For me, a guy who can turn Batman into something eminently watchable, is a guy with loads of genius. I chanced upon this film by the guy called "Memento" which I am sure most of you know. For the poor sods who don't, it is a masterful suspense thriller, short partly backwards in time. This non-linear narrative I found later, was a signature of this guy's direction.

When "The Dark Knight" was just about making its waves around the world, I forced myself to watch "Batman Begins". I had never been impressed with people running around in bat-suits. But to my surprise, I liked the movie, even though it had the predictable last part. With my homework firmly in place, I launched into a "Dark Knight" overdrive when I was home for just a couple of days. I went and saw the film in a theater hall. It was really worth the money and effort. If you have not seen it, even if you dont like men jumping about in stupid clothes, you should go ... this is a good film, period.

I have since watched "The Prestige" which again was quite a directorial success, according to the great Bagchi.

Now, I would sit on judgment on Nolan's debut film, "Following". Wish him luck :P
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