2. Characters
I have explored a couple of Christopher Nolan’s work and I have noticed that every
character Nolan uses are usually psychologically damaged, obsessively seeking
vengeance for the death of a loved one. They are often driven by philosophical
beliefs, and their fate is ambiguous. In many of his films the protagonist and
antagonist are mirror images of each other, a point which is made to the
protagonist by the antagonist been a broken human being looking for hope and
meaning by executing tasks that others would find impossible. This leads most of
his movies to being quiet violent and action thrilling.
3. Settings
Nolan has a very different way of presenting a movie. He messes with the viewers
memory, his movies are edited in such a way that keeps the audience on their toes.
Sometimes so much that it becomes difficult to understand the movie completely if
the first five minutes are missed. Extremely innovative photography and editing
and more importantly a non linear sequence are usually used in most of his movies.
Most of the endings of his movies generate a lot of debates. This is because they
are sometimes usually left at a cliff hanger. It usually leaves the audience wanting
to know more and arguing about what they think will happen.
4. Music
The music used in Christopher Nolan's films are usually transit from atmospheric to
aggressive. This music choice compliments his films because of how the characters
and style of the movies are set out to be.
5. Camerawork
His writing style incorporates a number of storytelling techniques such as
flashbacks, shifting points of view and unreliable narrators. Scenes are often
interrupted by the unconventional editing style of cutting away quickly from the
money shot (or nearly cutting off characters' dialogue) and crosscutting several
scenes of parallel action to build to a climax
