Loner writer Bill fills his time 'shadowing', that is, following interesting-looking people around London, in order to find out more about them. Enter the elegant, well-spoken, manipulative conman Cobb, who, realising he's being tailed, confronts him; they get talking, and thus begins a sequence of events our hapless main character freely chooses but ultimately has no control over.
Christopher Nolan's short-ish pre-fame feature is pretty impressive - shoestring first effort or not. As expected, the time structure is played around with, events pieced together retrospectively and not necessarily in sequence. It's compelling, original viewing which still looks good 13 years on.
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