Few directors today are capable of offering a filmography as authentic as Christopher Nolan. Because beyond natural cravings for special effects (with its appeal even focused on the essence of the movie of the day), Nolan always understands the argument of weight and substance as fundamentals. sine qua non. Sometimes it could even be equated with that Kubrick that surprised everyone and everyone with its controversial adaptations and presentations. Because the baton of ingenious directors always have to provide something impressive in the final bill.
And it is also true that Nolan is truffling great productions of assured success with risky bets that end up surpassing even the films destined for big box offices. Nolan's mastery is matched by that flair for scripts that look sophisticated but are perfectly translatable into mass hits.
There is no doubt that Nolan is a great fan of science fiction. But to convey that CiFi taste to any viewer, this English director knows how to recreate that duplicity between the recognizable and the prospective; between the next and the transcendent. A happy communion to present us films that fascinate in their presentation and that penetrate their background.
Top 3 Recommended Christopher Nolan Movies
Interstellar
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:One of those movies discovered as great productions but that point to classics of great cinema, whatever its genre. Scripted by Nolan himself with his brother Jonathan Nolan, it soon manifests itself as a work perfectly conceived from its inception as a story for film sequences. The planet Earth and the trip; the past, the present and the future as comings and goings in a whole that fits together as links that link the cosmos, the planes, the vectors ...
New planets where everything happens to the rhythm of its own oscillations on that vast black background, wormholes that guide us through funnels towards infinity. Meanwhile ... or rather while everything, the Earth is dying and only astronauts skirting impossible planes near Saturn may be able to find a new home for humans.
From humanity on the wire to the relationship between father and daughter on either side of space-time. Matthew McConaughey is the chosen astronaut with that dramatic charge that shrinks the soul when he receives messages from his daughter from HOME.
The journey ends almost as it begins. Because the time depends only on where you are. Only in the indefinable interim a message arrived on time from an old clock capable of transmitting much more than the time. The personal is irreparable for the astronaut in charge of saving humanity. And maybe that was the only thing that was worth it. But losses are only defeats when there are no new horizons or new places to colonize between one or a million moons.
Memento
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:A jewel with a few years under its belt. Probably the first film in which Nolan was unleashed as that creator halfway between epic existentialism and rapturous-paced suspense. A wonderful film about the essence of humanity, identity, memory….
Everything happens in flashback mode to delve into the protagonist's own perspective, victim of a lack of memory and its traps that, of course, may contain some great secret. The protagonist's decisions are marked by what he himself is capable of marking as reminders.
Leonard, the aforementioned protagonist of the plot, has a great unfinished business. And this is where the story takes on tints of special tension. Because if an investigation requires maximum concentration and perfect chronology, Leonard will observe what happens with great flaws but also with an overdeveloped ingenuity that will direct him to a possible resolution of the cause as the plot itself closes like the circle that it is.
The prestige
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Someday I will raise my selection of best magic movies. Because certainly there are several with a nineteenth-century touch, (the time of the most popular awakening of magic shows), added to a world still heir to the old myths and superstitions, which are evocative.
The confrontation between Bale and Jackman, which is the same as the magicians Alfred Borden and Robert Angier, is sounding like the roll of the most difficult impossible, both at the level of their shows and their tricks to destroy each other. There are moments when the final big twist is anticipated, as if the movie were also another great trick, with its prestige waiting to manifest itself, in the way that no magician would ever do.
Passion for magic, ambition, impossible loves for the most unsuspected reasons ... A plot in which David Bowie also had a place as Tesla. Movie in which you can't take your eyes off the screen.
Other recommended Christopher Nolan movies
Oppenheimer
It was certainly captivating. The idea of the inventor of the atomic bomb as a plot in Nolan's hands pointed to a perfect balance between action and moral ground. Of course, in the three hours that the film lasts (at least so that it already sounds like a blockbuster), there are stellar moments to savor with that notion of the tragic pointing to something finalist, to self-destruction as a human being's mission, to estrangement from the paradise that some God gave up or that was simply found to the misfortune of paradise itself.
The thing is that Nolan manages to make a virtue of slowness. Perhaps to be able to slowly digest so much character and so much information that experts in the historical period will assume as if it were nothing but that a layman must insert at a moment's notice. Only Nolan could entrust an actor like Murphy with the weight of the plot in all its aspects. From the necessary intimacy that exposes the scientist as Ecce Homo to the world to persecution and political tensions on both sides. Murphy himself is the human bomb that brings us closest to everything that happened in that dramatic moment of our civilization.
In times of war, the brilliant American physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), at the head of the "Manhattan Project", leads nuclear tests to build the atomic bomb for his country. Shocked by his destructive power, Oppenheimer questions the moral consequences of creating him. From then on and for the rest of his life, he would strongly oppose the use of nuclear weapons.
Tenet
AVAILABLE HERE:Nolan also has his slightly more confusing quirks. But even in the sophistication of this proposal for time travel to the apocalypse or the uchrony of parallel worlds, Tito Nolan hooks us with that meticulous setting of scenarios that come and go as in a futuristic moviola where anything is possible.
What better way to leave the world, for a powerful madman, than to take everything ahead. Wiping out humanity with an atomic bomb while he's eaten by his cancer sounds like poetic poetry to the evil-guy-has-everything stereotype. Everything except the love of a woman who still makes him hesitate in his decisions. She is his weakness when it comes to completing his plan.
Meanwhile, an unnamed protagonist, accompanied by Neil (Robert Pattinson) will try in their comings and goings to solve the problem that nobody is aware of, as always happens with great unrecognized heroes. A delusional stagehand of reality where everything can go forwards or backwards. A fascinating idea that makes time a mere tune capable of changing the rhythm of the world. An argument that at times can escape us but that ends up captivating us.
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