Favourite genius #3

Dear Christopher Nolan,

I have to admit that I didn't always know who you were and am a relatively recent fan of your work but I am only 21 years old. The first film of yours I saw was by accident. I went to visit my friend in Parkes, a small town in the middle of New South Wales Australia, in summer. One day we went to Orange to go for a swim but the pool was full and looked like people soup so we went to the movies to get out of the heat and as Orange is even smaller than Parkes the movie theatre there only has two cinema's and they were only playing Borat (which I'd already seen in Melbourne on a kind of date thing) and The Prestige, which was absolutely amazing. There were so many twists and turns that when my friends father asked us about it we couldn't think of one thing to say that wouldn't spoil it should he decide to go an see it himself. I love all that old magic stuff anyway, but throwing in David Bowie as Nikola Tesla, all the secrecy, mystery and lies, sexy magician hands etc. it kept me thinking for a long long time.

Then when my dad went overseas he sent us a copy of Batman Begins, which for some reason I hadn't seen until then. Perhaps it has something to do with Australia always getting stuff months and months after it comes out every where else, or maybe because at the time I wasn't dating a comic book geek, but I really loved that too. On father's day that same year we went to imax to see The Dark Night. Again I was blown away and the name Christopher Nolan became familiar to me.

Last year we waited and ignored what people were saying about Inception until it was our anniversary and we went to Gold Class to see it (very very early in the morning considering we'd been at the cinema the night before until about 1am seeing a film about a tire that blows up people's heads with telekinesis) and it was the best beginning to an anniversary ever. We had quite a bit of time to kill before going to see Scott Pilgrim vs the World at the Melbourne International Film Festival, but it felt like no time at all because we talked the whole time over rosemary lamb chops about how brilliant you must have to be to write a screenplay like that and actually have the mind to go on and make it. So many levels of genius are involved in Inception that I am still reeling almost a year and 4 viewings later.

I have since watched Momento and have decided that I am in love with your brain Christopher Nolan.

Kind regards,

Kendal Coombs
Melbourne Australia

(Plus, he's also British, you've got to love that.)