The Missing Key to Understanding Christopher Nolan (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90m6Hb6_j20)
What is the ideology of Nolan’s movies?
- Non-chronological movies
- Characters are engaged in deception
- Characters cannot obtain knowledge of objective reality
- “Reality is constructed in our mind” It is subjective
- Our memory is a collection of notes and ideas
- Embrace the existential meaning of our subjectivity
- “We have to live as if some things are true” a Kierkegaardian “leap of faith”
- Acknowledgment of beliefs allows to look inwards
How Nolan writes (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZJi_78XUVg)
- A Story that is a labyrinth
- Cross-Cutting: Shepard Effect utilized from music, a corkscrew effect, a continuing rise (Inter-cutting Scenes)
- Scene-Geography
- Doesn’t use zoom-lenses, changes performances
- Real locations (the texture of real life)