Classic Christopher Nolan Mind F*!ks
Oh Christopher Nolan. He may love Batman and good period piece but this man also likes to mess with us! Whether it is through time, space, the unconscious, or memory – a Nolan films keeps us on our toes and, to be frank, f*!ks with our heads.
Take a trip through Nolan’s filmography to see what we mean…
FOLLOWING (1998)
Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.
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MEMENTO (2000)
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife’s killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he’s going, or why.
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INSOMNIA (2002)
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn’t set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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INCEPTION (2010)
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: “inception,” the implantation of another person’s idea into a target’s subconscious.
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INTERSTELLAR (2014)
INTERSTELLAR chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
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Now Showing at the PFS Drive-In at the Navy Yard
TENET!
John David Washington is the new Protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s original sci-fi action spectacle TENET.
Armed with only one word—Tenet—and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Not time travel. Inversion.