Following

         In all my years of being a fan of Christopher Nolan's films, I haven’t seen is very first movie that started him on the path of being an amazing filmmaker and one of my personal favorites. Following is another one of these important movies that if you want to make a movie but don't have any money to hire actors, you have a camera and editing software. But more importantly writing a movie with a simplest plot as well as making the best movie with what you have as a limited budget. Following is one of those films I would highly recommend watching for inspiration, as it has been a great inspiration for me when I need something to follow in terms of not having enough money to make a movie.

        A young writer living in London follows people in the hope of using their lives in his novels, but the hobby becomes an obsession, and he soon finds himself going further than intended. 

         I’m one of those few people that want to go into the film business and want to be a filmmaker. Though life becomes a massive b*tch and paying bills as well as finding a job and paying rent slows you down on your dream and you're always not sure about making a movie or not. Especially when you want to make a movie, the last thing you want to do is make a terrible B-movie that would one day turn up on Red Letter Media’s YouTube channel. Luckily for me I've studied Videography as well as Photography but as most filmmakers’ big problem is, I don't know the right story to create though finding actors are my least concern because I have friends that I can look to as finding local theater actors. But watching Nolan's first film, Following shows me that all you really need is creating a simple story as well as learning how to work a camera and find ways to take the time to film your movie and edit your films as well. Furthermore, Chris Nolan never studied film making when going to college, his major was English Literature moreover used the certain places to shoot certain scenes at his college he attended. Another great aspect when looking at this movie is simply Nolan only had to shoot on Saturdays because his actors and crew all had full time jobs to work at moreover had to basically film only 15 minutes at times before the principal photography was completed. Another great fact is that majority of this film was shot only using handheld, camera technique and relied solely on a 15mm camera to capture the entire film. I'm not going to spoil anything about this great film because I want you all to watch this great film from the legendary career of Christopher Nolan, but this is defiantly one of those great films, where you have no budget and yet you can see what Nolan had to rely on from the camera and especially the actors he had to work with and even cast his legendary uncle John Nolan as the policeman in his first film as well as acting in the Dark Knight Trilogy too, more importantly is another one of those great neo-noir films and was the storytelling that Nolan used for his future projects moreover shows is talents on how to make a great mystery to bring to life on screen. There are times when making movies for sure, it's always a complicated factor because you want to make a great movie with little resources and movies like Kevin Smith's Clerks, Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi and importantly Christopher Nolan's Following are great examples of how to make a film with the best resources you can master. For anyone who wants to make a movie for the first time, Following is defiantly that one movie I would highly recommend watching and the great news I can give you all, is that this film isn't hard to find because this film is on the king of hidden treasures of streaming movies and shows Tubi, and so, you can subscribe to a free account and your set. I've said it before, Christopher Nolan I give a lot of thanks for creating a legendary Batman trilogy but more importantly thanking him for making a film that I can look to as inspiration for when I need, to create my first movie to start my dream in filmmaking. So, in this month of giving thanks Christopher Nolan is most certainly a man I give thanks for always giving me new and refreshing movies to be excited about as well as learning that you don't have to be in film school to be a filmmaker, you just have to learn how to use a camera and use life as an inspiration to tell a story and putting that story on screen for the world to see so, that one day they can use this film to use as a source of inspiration.