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Originally Posted by octagon
I finally got around to finishing Following the other day and I'm still not sure if I'm totally on board with all the masterpiece rhetoric but yeah, it was awfully good.
This will sound like a left-handed compliment but it's actually not - I ultimately had some pretty significant issues with plot but absolutely did not care because the atmosphere and performances were so good.
It actually had a bit of a Hitchcock feel in that way.
And it looked absolutely fantastic. This will be Exhibit A whenever anybody says 'eh, blah blah blah was shot in 16mm, it wouldn't really benefit from an HD upgrade'.
As for my plot issue...
[Show spoiler]I have no quarrel with elaborate frame-ups themselves. That's a time-honored noir/thriller convention. Body Heat used it very effectively. In this case though the frame-up was very well-executed and basically pretty believable it seemed - unless I missed something and that's definitely possible - entirely pointless. Why not just kill her? Why go to all that trouble to set somebody up for a crime that probably wouldn't generate much attention and would likely go unsolved even if it did?
Like I said, not a deal breaker but if I was at all on the fence to begin with that's the kind of thing that would generally leave a sour taste. |
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I think Cobb did what he did just because he could. He seemed to really enjoy messing with people.