1. [n]  the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit"
2. [n]  a group of followers or enthusiasts
3. [adj]  immediately following in time or order; "the following day"; "next in line"; "the next president"; "the next item on the list"
4. [adj]  going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction; "the crowd of following cars made the occasion seem like a parade"; "tried to outrun the following footsteps"

Following
"Following" is a wickedly clever story of how a young man's obsession with following people leads him into a dark underworld. Bill, the unlikely hero, is a marginalized but intriguing Everyman who follows strangers at random on the street. When Cobb, a man Bill has been following, catches him in the act, Bill is drawn into Cobb's world of breaking into flats and prying into the personal lives of the victims. In Cobb, Bill finds a strange companion - part mentor, part confessor and part evil twin. With an ingenious structure that involves flash forwards and doubling back, the film tests our knowledge and understanding just as the protagonist is being duped into an elaborate triple-cross. "FOLLOWING" heralded Christopher Nolan as a promising new talent whose promise was amply confirmed with "Memento.

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1. \Fol"low*ing\, n.
   1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
      --Macaulay.
   2. Vocation; business; profession.
   

2. \Fol"low*ing\, a.
   1. Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held
      on the following day.
   2. (Astron.) (In the field of a telescope) In the direction
      from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of
      the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following
      or south following. In the direction toward which stars
      appear to move is called preceding.
   Note: The four principal directions in the field of a
         telescope are north, south, following, preceding.