00:00In Christopher Nolan's films, the object takes on a very particular meaning.
00:03Each Nolanian character has one that will serve them in one way or another in their quest.
00:08In Memento, Leonard Shelby manages to keep track of his actions and locate himself in space.
00:13thanks to its polaroid which acts as a long-term memory for the latter.
00:16In Inception, it is of course his totems that allow the character to differentiate between two very distinct realities.
00:22In Interstellar, it is the watch Cooper gives to his daughter, representing love through time.
00:27A love so powerful that Cooper will be able to communicate light years away with Murphy through this watch.
00:33The symbol is all the more powerful when we know that this object, which allows us to map time,
00:37and which is offered as a sign of love from a parent to his child will succeed in saving all humanity.
00:43In the Dark Knight trilogy, the most symbolic object is undoubtedly Harvey Dent's coin.
00:47The latter leaving a power far too powerful to chance through this piece
00:50which will end up being literally charred like Dent's face
00:54and figured as his ideology and his sense of justice which he will transform into hatred instilled through this object.
01:00In Following, everyday objects are described as representations of the personalities of those who own them.
01:05The antagonist, upon entering the home of an ordinary person, will guess what their life is like through the various objects scattered throughout their house.
01:11Besides, he says he likes to move them to give them new life.
01:14and so that their owners, who had forgotten their existence, would start to admire them again.
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