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Hey everyone! Totally forgot to announce my next project, but I've been working on a video on Christopher Nolan! It's not exactly a filmmaker profile like the ones I have done before, though I'm guessing it could end up functioning as one nevertheless. Anyways, the idea was to look at some deeper themes and philosophical elements that are found in his movies, but that are usually overlooked or under-appreciated, which is a shame because, as you will soon see, I believe it's what makes his work surprisingly thoughtful, and might even be, in part, what has contributed to his mainstream success

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davey perry

A most exciting project! In reference to one of my early favourites, Insomnia (2002), Nolan’s accomplished remake is an outstanding example of his liberal use of disorientation via setting to unbalance a protagonist’s moral grounding. Interestingly though, unlike the temporally-malleable settings in which many Nolan characters find themselves challenged, Insomnia’s lead finds himself unmoored from his reliable moral and space-time co-ordinates in a landscape that unyieldingly REFUSES to change.

Misha Meihsl

Hyped up for this! He's one of my favourite filmmakers, and it's somewhat a shame that he got so hyped, because people dismissed him as flashy, when in actuality his stories are often quite deep, and not easily covered (of course, he's really not the only one to praise here, as his collaborators complete him well!). Looking forward to this, for sure !

Jeremy

I haven't watched it yet but the folks over at @filmscalpel recently put out a video essay on Nolan: https://vimeo.com/672255128. Really enjoying your work - thank you!

Like Stories of Old

I rewatched Insomnia the other day and it's definitely Nolan's most overlooked film in my opinion, fantastic tale about morality, the cost of lies, and the truth that eventually catches up