‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Two
00:00:51 – 00:00:56 A hinge. A box with a metal hinge, like a jewelry box, or like the chess set that Joe and I bought in Tuscumbia, that lets you carry the pieces around inside the board, because the...
View Article‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Three
00:00:57 – 00:01:00 Downscreen, closest to us, a little blurry, a string of pearls — or some kind of white bead; they are maybe too squared off to be pearls. The rest of the floor of the jewelry box...
View Article‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Four
00:01:01 – 00:01:01 Very quickly: the shortest cut yet. Another part of the box, where a stack of more photographs — the old kind of photos, with scalloped, torn, fluffy edges — has been piled up...
View Article‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Five
00:01:03 – 00:01:07 How big is this box on the inside? Maybe we are not looking at the inside of the box still. Maybe we are looking at a tabletop or desktop. The sides of the box are nowhere to be...
View Article‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Eight
00:01:15 – 00:01:16 Keys and coins piled on top of a stack of photographs. Note: it appears to be the same stack of photographs that we’ve already seen, shoved into a corner of the box, or, at least,...
View Article‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Nine
00:01:16 – 00:01:20 The title, ‘Following,’ in an elongated typewriter-y, almost maybe italic font, light-light gray (theoretically white) against an otherwise dark-dark gray, theoretically black,...
View Article‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Ten
00:01:22 – 00:01:23 More picking up of stuff! Pick, pick, pick. Up, up, up. This is interminable! It’s been months now since that box was opened! We’re almost a full minute and a half in! I mean, come...
View Article‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Eleven
00:01:24 – 00:01:25 Both hands reach down for a pile of money, paper currency, with the words “Bank of England” printed in large letters along the top. I am supposing that these are … what … pounds?...
View Article‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Thirteen
00:01:28 – 00:01:28 The bills, now folded crisply, lengthwise, are placed along the inside edge of the jewelry box. Or is it some other small stack of paper? The photographs, maybe? I am probably not...
View Article‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Fourteen
00:01:29 – 00:01:30 The jewelry box gets shut by the hands. I make out the seahorse in there, on a pile of the other stuff, as the lid goes down. The music simultaneously squirts to a squirty...
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