Tenet Explained: The Biggest WTF Questions Answered

[@heavyspoilers]

Trying to invert myself to go back and pronounce Ives correctly

[@geraldjohnson7435]

The protagonist touched to algorithm, he was destined to collect them

[@aishaaijazahmad6184]

@90s Born guys...I just came across electric dreams...and I can't believe I JUST came across it. It's really good if you want to binge watch a sci-fi show. So little people are talking about it, it's insane.

[@MrSilvUr]

If that universe exists, we don't live in it.

[@akashskumar7624]

In the airport scene forward stabs reverse and effect of it continues to the future but if he had shot reverse instead of stab the effect would be totally different and what causes this difference in effect of stab and shot even though bullet and knife moves forward through the body

[@heavyspoilers]

Looool

[@pauloshea6291]

I recently got a hold of Chris Nolan and asked him these questions. He just kept repeating himself. "Let me go" . "Get off me" "who are you?". I think it relates to the protagonist having to let go of someone he doesn't know yet

[@bon.bon.]

😂😂😂

[@jakegoldstein7584]

🤣🤣🤣

[@abdessamadabidaoui7907]

That actually makes sense

[@HarshaHarshG-tb3pu]

That woman in the white coat is not the scientist who invented the reverse entropy of Bullet.... She is just assigned to that project....that's it....

[@Prophet_of_Colour]

@@HarshaHarshG-tb3pu lol you copy and paste everywhere and yet you still don't get any interactions with your stupid take. You can't disagree with an opinion like it's a fact.

[@ThatGuyB_ry]

I think Nolan is a mad man for even coming up this whole concept. I would've loved to be in the room where Nolan explains it to everyone lol

[@Nightcrawler333]

😂😂😂 and watch the looks on those actors faces when they heard it for the first time 😂😂😂

[@TheBrickagon]

well, this concept also exists in physics :))

[@whengrapespop5728]

“So... imagine two worlds, right, forwards and backwards, then they meet. Pow, conflict, and something about the world ending. Radical, dudes.”

[@Geordie_]

I don’t think it’s the concept that is mad. It’s the fact he could actually execute it and execute it well.

[@yeetwchybaban]

@@whengrapespop5728 loool

[@Sthuthukile]

I don't know how many times I've said "I finally get it" and then got confused again

[@KurosakiRuka]

sounds like me in maths

[@sakasusuk]

same. SAME. Its worse than Inception honestly

[@Sthuthukile]

@@sakasusuk Neil's the spinning top of this movie

[@phannikun3515]

Don't try to understand it ,,,feel it,

[@eshwar6969]

@@sakasusuk Yeah. Inception was far less puzzling than Tenet.

[@mountainslopes]

I can’t wrap my head around how Nolan wrapped his head around this. It’s one thing to understand a specific concept intuitively, but to create a coherent story is mad

[@booooooooooooop2172]

Coherent?

[@solgouki84]

@@booooooooooooop2172 it's coherent, yes.

[@J0MBi]

yeah you can tell Nolan thought about it for a long time, I read he thought up the concept over 10 years before he made the movie - or did he make the movie so that he could think up the concept 🤔

[@dal.890]

He really got into the science of time travel with interstellar. Also deals with time and non linear storytelling his whole career.

[@carlton6953]

​@@solgouki84 so coherent that 99/100 people didn't follow the story in the cinema and had to go home and watch videos like this

[@TheCarter117Gaming]

Also after reading the script.... the reason that the inverted protagonist was shooting at the window was also to kill time... as he is waiting to see himself run backwards into the turnstyle so he can continue going through. You see him look over into the window a few times during that scene. Remember, if you dont see yourself exit the turnstyle you dont go in.

[@destroyallbacteriad.a.b9007]

I went back and watched the fight again after i read your comment and your completely right! Thanks for the info

[@destroyallbacteriad.a.b9007]

Another reason i think he shot the window was because while he is shooting the window you can see that he is sliding towards the time machine while he does it so that he can escape

[@TheCarter117Gaming]

@@destroyallbacteriad.a.b9007 yup, because he already knows how the fight is going to go; since he already lived through it the first time!

[@kev3d]

I don't care about why the protagonist shoots, but rather how the window had bullet holes the whole time until the inverted bullets "repaired" the damage. Are we to believe that at the glass factory, sheets of armored glass were sent to the Oslo vault and installed with bullet strikes already in them? When the concrete was poured at the Opera house, were the bullet holes already there? How far back in the past do inverted things affect the non-inverted world around them?

[@scope40k]

@@kev3d that's more or less ok until you start thinking about the entire half of the building that was hit by a reverse missile, so it had to lie in rubble for the eternity until it is hit at last to become a complete building. Now who and how can build something like that? And what kind of existence it goes though after it was hit?

[@s_anandsurya]

Nolan's making a trilogy, and we've just seen the final film from it.

[@taninhz5909]

O no..o no..o no no no..mind blast..

[@jonathanmuddyhands8369]

I just figured after watching it again love this movie

[@AlexLoya]

He's making a trilogy of this movie?

[@reagame8700]

Technically you could view Interstellar as a sequel to Tenet. Interstellar is in the future where the earth is dying, so instead of killing the past they leave to a new planet.

[@Rwhalt]

Naw Cuz, this was the middle film. Interstellar was the final film. The first film is yet to come. Murph was the female scientist generations in the future who discovered the algorithm.

[@emmanuelamokuandoh2596]

Tenet has most people's minds going backwards. Inception was relatively more understandable

[@musefan2990]

I really don't know why people didn't understand or think inception was confusing. Understood that movie on the first watch.

[@yardship]

@@musefan2990 not only did inception spend a lot of time explaining itself, it also showed various characters reacting to the events in a way that showed viewers how they should react; tenet doesn't really do either of those.

[@musefan2990]

@@yardship I agree totally. I do think tenet is confusing as hell. I'm merely saying for that reason and just it's fairly simple in comparison to tenet plot. I u derdtood it on the first viewing

[@danielsmithiv1279]

@@yardship And I like Tenet better because it doesn't waste too much time explaining itself.

[@tegesnripendra9473]

@@danielsmithiv1279 agree, understanding the movie by yourself feels more fun and better than letting the movie explain itself

[@samwallaceart288]

It didn't even occur to me that Protagonist is still in the windmills when the ship passes it by; I knew it was a callback, but I didn't realize it was a full-on revisit.

[@Rougarou99]

Past Protagonist: *Leaves his cabin and runs into Present Protagonist* Present Protagonist: Who let you leave? Do you know how dangerous it could be if we meet? Past Protagonist: I had ordered my hot sauce an hour ago.

[@coldplayfan6070]

Oh, shit, right. When the Protagonist, Neil, and Kat were in the reversing ship going back to the 3-event day, the past version of the Protagonist was still in one of the windmills doing his routines.

[@samwallaceart288]

@@Rougarou99 It's been 2 years and I'm still confused about one thing: Who walks into a restaurant and orders "just hot-sauce" first thing sitting down? And why is that a normal thing to go to the chef to complain about?

[@Rougarou99]

@@samwallaceart288 I doubt the Protagonist seriously ordered hot sauce, but rather was just making a jape with Sator's men. Otherwise, maybe he just wanted to be certain the restaurant didn't forget his hot sauce if he ordered it with his food.

[@samwallaceart288]

@@Rougarou99 But it's still a weird thing to say even as a joke.

[@ahzerlumli]

Congratulations to Tenet 2 for winning the Oscar, can’t wait to watch Tenet in theatre.

[@satx.didi1]

Blue team?

[@BigBoyPharma]

its a pincer attack

[@metalnat27]

lol

[@piyushmishra7210]

Ha ha

[@I_Shit_on_your_shit_point]

Thanks for helping me sleep with the lame joke

[@eddiejc1]

Just to clarify something at the beginning of the film. Yes, the Protagonist IS part of a CIA task force trying to recover the Artifact but he doesn't know it at the time. From his point of view, his objective is to rescue a compromised CIA agent as well as secure what he believes to be plutonium. It's only later in the film that he discovers the true nature of the Artifact.

[@scottlaswell3377]

THANK YOU!! I was starting to wonder if I was the ONLY person watching this (after watching the movie, of course) who was intelligent enough to realize that! I was starting to worry LMFAO

[@ghgyuyu2962]

Or...... _earlier in the film_

[@kevinxsavagegm]

He literally sent himself through his contacts in the CIA.

[@eastcoastpaper3862]

@@kevinxsavagegm pretty much

[@theofaron961]

@@kevinxsavagegm I'm trying to pick up who he was always talking to on the phone (India scenes). Someone else was credited as the voice over but that someone could have also played the protagonist but from the future. That could he a reason why he doesn't have a backstory! That's because his backstory is in the future. He went back in time.

[@lastsonofkrypton25]

This is my second time seeing the movie, tomorrow is gonna be the first.

[@jrmensahs220]

😂

[@dogwater5499]

On a serious note what would happen if you inverted a disc and play it?

[@eeeesyywuwiz2836]

@@dogwater5499 Elaborate on "inverted"

[@GilanaHealer]

@@B3B3TTER 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@basilvasiliu]

Followed by never

[@Tehui1974]

I've never been as bamboozled by a movie, like I was with Tenet. I like it when movies take a risk, but even this movie was beyond my reach. I've seen the movie twice, I've watched some of these explanations, and I believe that only a very few can watch the movie just once and understand everything.

[@Broken_robot1986]

It's not a riddle or a test. It's a badass heist movie where they get the thing they were trying to get, and they do it in the most baller way possible, with Denzel Washington's son hanging off the side of firetrucks with that dude from that vampire pedophile movie, but he's actually really good to. It has re-watchability to be sure where you can get more out of it the more you watch it, doesn't mean you didn't understand the first time.

[@Embers-qu8vg]

Me: understand the whole thing

[@ZZubZZero]

You don't have to understand everything completely though. But in reality, it's not that hard to understand it.

[@odejobiolalekan4579]

It's pretty straightforward to me don't get the complexity pple are ranting about,but it needs maximum concentration

[@father3dollarbill]

watch 2 more times and a couple of these explanation videos and you'll be set! No joke.

[@ence1540]

I'm gonna watch TENET yesterday It was a great movie

[@DVSS77]

*will be xD

[@rihankaiyum8021]

@@DVSS77 that ruins the fucking joke you 8 year old

[@anoushkashrivastava8594]

Same here

[@satx.didi1]

Blue team?

[@oOoScarecrow31oOo]

It's still in post-prod not out… it's too late 😉 You would have been able to see it before you even know about it.

[@juanherrera2859]

Tenet is Chris Nolan going full Chris Nolan. His movies are smart enough to pick your brain, but still entertain a mass audience. With Tenet, he decided he has this level of trust from his audience. He made the film he wanted to make. And still scored $20 mill domestic in one weekend, kneckdeep in a pandemic.

[@brothaclutch984]

I saw it 3 times during the panda

[@criztu]

his movies are not smart. He illustrates pagan doctrines that we, the masses, do not learn about, in school or on tv. think about all those Tv shows clogging your mind with "black holes, dark matter". Not a word about the Germanic pantheon, or Egyptian pantheon. Sator is Saturn, the god of time, father of gods, god of harvests, the reaper, killer of his children. His son has to defeat him, to avoid being devoured. just start reading about pagan religions and you'll see Nolan's movies for what they are: reheated fast food

[@djones02]

This is Chris Nolan going full Nalon Sirch

[@jddang3738]

I think Tenet pushed against the limit of trust for a lot of people though. Not me as I like to dwell on movies and shows, and re-watch if it tickles my brain. But for many it’s one and one. I guess that’s why sandwiched it with Dunkirk and Oppenheimer lol.

[@jkcrawl]

​@@jddang3738 I loved Tenet but I agree with you. It's difficult to defend a movie that's not really accessible and I really don't blame anybody for not liking it.

[@mkultra-meltdown6848]

So did Protagonist ever get his hot sauce? wtf

[@heavyspoilers]

Loooool

[@Milan-db3uy]

That's a plot hole right there. Trash movie!

[@Alex-ll4mc]

what is this in reference to?

[@thebatman4279]

@@Alex-ll4mc When he's confronted by Sators thugs in the kitchen. "I've been waiting an hour for my hot sauce" or something to that effect.

[@mkultra-meltdown6848]

@@Milan-db3uy haha!

[@michaelshanahan9824]

By far one of the best adaptation of a time travel movie. The movie got mixed reviews, but I think after a few years go by it’s going to be looked back on as a masterpiece. I’ve also had the thought that this concept would work incredibly well as a TV show.

[@stevied7531]

Agree

[@realdavebob]

Same. Just like when ‘Inception’ was released lots of my friends didn’t like it at first, but now we all love it

[@andimoor1986]

A different concept - but have you seen the TV show Dark?

[@lontongtepungroti2777]

i can absolutely understand why it get mixed review, if i didnt take time to understand a lot of part of the moview i would totally give it low rating. but now this is atleast 9/10 for me

[@solgouki84]

I hope nolan leaves this universe alone as it would cheapen it. It ended where it should - leaving us wanting more.

[@kvaknanhere2250]

The intro was gold lol

[@heavyspoilers]

Haha thanks

[@kvaknanhere2250]

@@heavyspoilers Unsubscribed lol

[@hvysleepr1035]

Definitely threw me off haha 😂

[@marlonsytan]

I hope to win one =) Love the Tenet videos you've been producing.

[@Nyagee]

"tomorrow I'll make the Tenet video you're watching right now" 😆

[@morpheuz9]

This video was featured in KZbin Rewind last year

[@heavyspoilers]

Loooool

[@vikrantsubakade9281]

Hey thats pretty clever :)

@@heavyspoilers ....and loooooL

[@captiveraptor8207]

No it was featured in KZbin Rewind next year lol

[@mohammadali-du8mf]

@@captiveraptor8207 no you didn't get it

[@aidanrogers4438]

The female scientist at the start couldn’t be the same one who creates the algorithm in the future, Priya tells the Protagonist that she created it ‘generations’ in the future, meaning she would have to at least be the grandchild of the present generation in the film, at the earliest.

duhhh

[@stix5078]

Well not exactly by conventional means by which I mean just the revolving doors, yes she couldn't do that since she would've needed to live hundreds of years meaning she would either have to speed up time around her or slow it down. BUT that has been proven possible in the actual physical world. Anytime an object speeds up relative to another object it's been shown it will experience less passing of time relative to the object that was stationary. Basically, if you go fast enough, like say the speed of light, you will basically slow down time around you. This makes the theory very plausible since this is the future and could possibly have FTL or close to FTL travel, especially since they've already basically discovered time travel. Another more boring idea tho is that since she's from the future they have the ability to extend her life by hundreds of years

[@taffia]

I was thinking the same thing. Far more likely is that her research was used by the future scientist as the starting point for their work that eventually ended with the invention of the algorithm.

[@dinkledankle]

@@stix5078 My guy(or girl), you're going way outside the realm of the movie with that. The theory about future medicine extending her lifespan is forgivable, however inapplicable, but the FTL/Relativity theory is a whole machination outside of the film's context. Sure it may be possible in the real world, but unless it is written about or implied within the movie, it may as well not exist.

[@Puriantartica]

Yeah, but Priya does not know the exact future. She just knows that the tenet technology is created in the future. It could totally still be the same scientist. She would keep researching the inversion and an inverse of her will probably come back and help her finish it. I don't think generations ahead would be a good guess at all, because that could have been bad affects. We know that Neil inverses a few years and we have to assume that's the longest someone can inverse without it being too harmful.

[@lekevvy]

The reason why he shoots at himself is precisely because he knew there were bullet holes there already. When he becomes inverted, he fires the gun as if it was already predetermined. The movie plays with the idea of cause and effect and how either way you look at it, both events are tied to each other in a two-way relationship.

[@dogwater5499]

So to have made those shots predetermined the original protagonist would have had to shoot at himself in that fashion, but would he be shooting at his future self again? This creates an endless repeat of the same events because now the protagonist is fated to fight himself in that same fashion. The protagonists first official time going through that room wouldn't be the same as the one we are shown because this first protagonist hasn't time traveled to create their fated interaction, so basically there has to be a scenario where he shot the glass in that same way, which is weird because he wouldn't be shooting at his future self.

[@riza4086]

And what if he decided maybe I should not shoot at myself. Was his trigger finger being controlled or predetermined. He knew that was himself yet he fought himself. There is a paradoxical element to this but I guess for movie purposes we let this go.

[@Kibbelingg]

Which is why free will is an illusion

[@AGD_27]

The bullet holes weren't already there. That logic is if you are firing ammunition which is inverted from your perspective. When he fires he and the bullets are traveling in the same direction through time so that was an active choice on his part.

[@twa9995]

@@Kibbelingg if time travel exists*

[@christophermeszaros5943]

I walked out of my room backwards to confuse my mom.

[@heavyspoilers]

Hahhahaha

[@thejackedphilosopher]

The absolute madman

[@mikvance]

She already was inverted and knew you would do that. She inverted to trick you. You got temporal pincered!

[@ricefarmer5246]

@CARPAINTANNY sony

[@marqosmarqos1201]

@@mikvance lol

[@parishdarne1125]

I enjoyed this movie a lot. The soundtrack is really good. I tend to like all of Nolan’s movies anyway.

[@Whateveridksomething]

That's a pretty big understatement, the music was fantastic

[@hamisheginet]

Word meaning of music is changing... New music is just synthesized sounds and fx... John Williams, where are you? 😭

[@01bigtrev]

No one have problems with the sound? I found it took a lot away from the dialogue. Kind of distracting

[@miliyn17]

@@hamisheginet I love John Williams but his style of orchestrated music just wouldn’t have worked in this movie

[@Whateveridksomething]

@@01bigtrev most people had a big problem with the sound, cause they couldn't hear people talking, for me it was normal heard everything but i watched it on my PC not in theaters

[@fifthdaniel6413]

my future self who eventually understands TENET will invert to explain to my present self

[@jumpsneak]

You mustn't because of direct contact!!

[@adityaparmar6433]

You won't understand as he will speak backwards

[@jumpsneak]

Unless you reinvert yourself back again. Then there is 2 of you running around

[@Righteousone18]

The universe might explode!

[@crownambassador1]

I will watch the movie for the 2nd time today. Will watch it for 1st time tomorrow. !!aHaH

[@conservovirtus5796]

Another thing that occurred to me. Once someone goes back in time they're stuck there forever in the Tenet universe. Both regular time and inverted time occur at 1x. And there's no apparent way to "fast forward" either. So Neil, for example, is trapped in the past permanently and can never get back to his correct (for lack of a better description) point in space/time. Every time he goes backwards, upon de-inverting, he's only moving forward a 1x again like everyone else. This means he's effectively replicating himself every time he inverts, and is existing in the past with himself permanently. If he went back a day, there would be two of him. Neil before he traveled back in time, or Neil A, and Neil B that's a day behind. If Neil B waited a day and went back a day again there would be three Neils in the timeline. Neil A, and Neil B and Neil C, both of which would be occupying Neil A's present. But Neil B and C are now stuck at that point in forward moving time forever. They can go backwards, but they cannot go return to their "correct" time, as that would require being able to travel forward at 2x, 3x or 4x, etc., to catch back up. If I'm not being clear enough imagine driving along side another car on the highway. Both of you are traveling in one direction at 60 mph which is your maximum speed. You pass a restaurant and decide you'd like to go back there and eat. You stop, turn around, and go in the opposite direction of the other car as it continues traveling forward. When you get back on the highway you will never catch up to the other car again. Both of you can only go 60 mph, and you're now behind it, permanently. That's Neil. He will never "catch up" to his original time. There was also a period where Kat couldn't be with her son because there were two of her. She had to wait until her past self went back in time creating a permanent gap for present Kat (relative to her) to fill. If she went back too far she'd basically never be able to be with him again, as past Kat would still be there (until she went back in time creating the gap for future Kat to fill).

[@murrayrothtard6072]

Think of it like a long straight string and you’re just putting a loop in it, but then once you travel along the loop it just straightens back out. While you’re in the loop there are two of you, and it looks like you’re travelling backwards from the other guys POV, but really you’re just going the same direction on the string. Then once you get to the end of the loop your past self goes into the loop and you are back on the straight line. So even when it looks like they are in front of you they would still be behind you on the string. And they always will be. Your string will always be the same length but every loop you put in it shortens how far it will reach if you compare it to some imaginary master string. So going back one day means that your life will end two calendar days sooner, but you’ll still live the same amount of days from your perspective. So every loop makes the strings ultimate distance covered shorter and you can never make it longer. You can never travel to a future you would not have otherwise seen.

[@alkafelts]

I understood this but also not at all haha

[@luizcastro5246]

@@murrayrothtard6072 which is very sad, because Neil has to abuse time mechanics a ton in order to win the pincer manuever in the end of the movie, just how harrowing it is to keep running through the same loop trying to get everything right shows why no one else keeps duplicating themselves on the timeline, Neil truly was raised to be unique and he sacrificed the most for the success of the mission.

[@murrayrothtard6072]

@@luizcastro5246 also frustrating that you can go back in time, but you still only have basically one shot to get it right. You can’t fuck up and then just go again and knock your old self out of the way and do it right this time. He sacrificed with no guarantee of success.

[@luizcastro5246]

@@murrayrothtard6072 true, true

[@totallyrandomofficial]

Nolan: Yes. Audience: Sooo, how badly do you plan to mess with our brains in 'Tenet'?

[@analogjosh]

I reread this and I realized the genius in this comment.

[@martinqizeaq]

It's backwards.

[@medilies]

Sey ?'teneT' ni sniarb ruo htiw ssem ot nalp uoy od yldab woh, ooooS

[@totallyrandomofficial]

@@medilies Someone's feeling blue :D

[@laughingkoffin]

420iq

[@rentristandelacruz]

You're not pushing the poop, you're pulling it. Tenet-style.

[@aravindbose8883]

😆

[@Nightcrawler333]

😂😂😂😂

[@TheBrickagon]

i thought about that when i went to the toilet after seeing the movie xddddddd

[@qltcn]

Poop jokes eeeeee! very funny, you're so smart, how did you come up with this????

[@ixm2unvrz]

I am in the toilet as I read this comment

[@TheOpinionGuyy]

Marvel: We have multiple timelines. Tenet: Hold my turnstiles.

[@professionalamateur7900]

LOL

[@MrScorbett315]

This was exactly how I tried to explain this movie to my 10 & 12 year old kids lol.

[@OrenTubing]

Matrix: im the most convoluted sci fi movie Tenet: It hasn't happened yet

[@kylepollock9712]

That joke never gets old...

[@danielsmithiv1279]

@@OrenTubing The most convoluted stories are the best.

[@queazy03]

The script explains why the future reverse Protagonist was firing the gun at his past forward self, it was to scare the past self to get closer to the turn style so he could safely enter it. Why? Because if he enters the turn style without seeing his self reverse entering on the other side of the "proving window" he will die, or as Ives says "not getting out". Reading the script clearly shows that through the fight the Protagonist was checking the Proving Window to see himself entering on the other side, but struggling with fighting his past self who would not let him get close to it. He fired shots at his past self to get closer to the turn style, and once he saw himself reverse entering it on the other side of the Proving Window, he jumped into the turn style to make sure he can get out on the other side. Ives: "If you don't see yourself (through the Proving Window) reverse-exit the machine, you won't be getting out".

[@TKGriffiths]

That makes no sense. He can't 'scare his past self to get closer to the turnstile' by firing the gun because any reaction from his past self to the gunshots (or from his past perspective, bullets flying into the gun from the glass) would come BEFORE the gun was fired from the inverted perspective. AKA from inverted's perspective any reaction his past self would have to the gunfire has already happened, when they were further away from the turnstile. As you can see in the scene, the actual result of his past self being scared by the gunfire is him stabbing his inverted self, which has already happened from the inverted perspective.

[@nin2494]

@@TKGriffiths My mans you're reacting to a 2 year old comment. From what I can tell there are actually three probable answers for the question: 1. What OP meant: The Future Protagonist, here on referred to as 'Inverted Protagonist", by shooting at his past self, here on referred to as 'Forward Protagonist', is making Forward Protagonist cautious of the gun in lieu of the aftermath (beforemath?) of the gun's use (bullet holes in the glass, dismantled gun, smoke) rather than actually REACTING to the gunshots themselves in real time. This will assist inverted in entering the turnstiles and leaving Inverted Time. 2. The Causality answer: as his past self, he knew he shot those holes, he had to shoot them so that the future (or inverted's Protagonist's past) would stay the same. Or, in the case that the future and past are irreversible, as is heavily implied, he's TRYING to keep true to the Inverted Protagonist's path in hopes that he already 'got out' and that it's easier to accept the events of both Forward and Inverted time if he tries to follow the actions he's already seen before... effectively trapping himself for no reason other than comfort. Regardless of whether he wanted to stay on track or not, he would. By choosing to dismantle the gun, he chose to undismantle it. By choosing to follow the path, the path was already made. As for why the path ACTUALLY exists? Why does Inverted Protagonist shoot himself, for real? Probably 3... which is then because of 1. And thus OP redeems himself. 3. The Panicked reaction answer: The Forward Protagonist was trying his best to PUSH the gun away in Forward Time, thereby PULLING the gun towards himself in Inverted Time, while the Inverted Protagonist wanted to do his best to push and shoot AWAY from the Forward Protagonist (probably because of 1?) thereby making it feel like Inverted is pushing and shooting TOWARDS the Forward Protagonist in Forward Time. What to do if you can't pull it away? Shoot, to scare him. He can't react though because if he was scared by the shots, he'd be scared before (in Inverted Time) you could get the gun pointing towards him... or after (In Forward Time) you shot him, for Inverted Protagonist Forward would be spooked the further away both of them are from the turnstiles thus making the attempt futile. Refer back to 1: Scare him with the bullet holes in the window and the dismantled gun that have yet to be in Inverted time but ALREADY HAVE BEEN in Forward Time. This is probably the emotional moment-to-moment reason, thus being the leading one - they were both trying to push away, so to each other they were trying push in. This is then followed closely by 2 as being Inverted's self-soothing technique against Inverted Time, and 1 being his best attempt at escaping Inverted Time.

[@newjoel18]

So when Neil said "This is the end of a great friendship for me but it's just starting for you" he knew he was about to take a bullet so the mission could be completed but he also knew that the protagonist would go to London to save Kat and run off with her and start a friendship with her son Max who is Neil. Whew 🤪

[@eastcoastpaper3862]

max better become neil lol

[@cool_alienempire6884]

This reminds me of Season 4 of Doctor Who wherein the Doctor sees the beginning of his relationship with River as she sees the end.

[@henrik1743]

max is not neil ffs..

[@AnotherAvaibleName]

​@@henrik1743 I think it's implied "Neil" might not even be his real name. If we accept this premise we can't deny nor confirm whether or not Neil is Kat's son.

[@markwilliams9519]

@@henrik1743 you're absolutely right. People ignore how time travel works in this story. To go 20 years into the past you have to live those 20 years. For Neil to be max he's have had no life to actually live and do anything

[@benbouffard1793]

As usual with Nolan, I was wildly impressed by his showmanship as a director of spectacle. This is, without a doubt, the tightest work he's done in terms of editing and action choreography. And yet, even after two viewings, I find it difficult to grasp its technical prowess on any emotional level. It's somehow both overwritten and underwritten, cool but cold, immersive yet impenetrable, dazzling and delirious. I've never had such a strong push-pull relationship with a movie in my life. Officially subscribed! Would absolutely love that LOTR 4K set in my collection!

[@atomiccritter6492]

dazzling? I simply am not seeing that at all

[@jeremylakeman]

I heard complaints that TENET doesn't give an emotional reason for what the protagonist is doing. Like how Inception is driven by Cobb dealing with the loss of his wife, or exposition while the team is stressed and under fire. But instead I see TENET follows a format closer to a Bond action film. The protagonist is saving the world, not himself.

[@atomiccritter6492]

@@jeremylakeman there's little to no emotional momentum in this film. The perfect film for Nolan nutcases to rewatch and try to convince themselves it's good

[@danielsmithiv1279]

The characters needed more work.

[@danielsmithiv1279]

@@atomiccritter6492 What are good films to you atomic critter?

[@sathvikadusumilli2450]

I was skeptical at Tenet after I watched it the first time, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized everything made sense. This movie NEEDS these kinds of videos to make sense!

[@brianng3414]

Just finished the movie, I have no idea what the movie is trying to do or say,; I hated it. Thus, I am here now. I will try to check out these videos and try to watch it again to see if it makes any more sense and gets any better.

[@thejquinn]

Doesn't that make a film bad, that you need a KZbin video to explain it to you? I mean of the whole film is suppose to be logical, then a room divider wouldn't change how we go back in time? Wouldn't the blue team have already been at the site when red team gets there? On and on, so many holes for such a mess of a film

[@viksplosion7105]

@@thejquinn That’s the thing, this introduces a new concept.

[@atomiccritter6492]

@@viksplosion7105 I think you missed their point tbh

[@viksplosion7105]

@@atomiccritter6492 Yeah

[@dmz6125]

Imagine we get a sequel set (blank) years in the future, and the Protagonist is played by Denzel Washington

[@GrimmshiOfficial]

Lol no

[@karan_for_you]

Holy shit. I wouldn't mind that.

[@PermanentHigh]

@@GrimmshiOfficial That would be interesting though

[@pointysidedown]

Denzel would be good in the cast for Tenet 2

[@GrimmshiOfficial]

But Denzel looks nothing like him

[@Teh1337H4x0rz111]

"Tenet" was a total mindfuck and l enjoyed every second of it.

[@nadagabri5783]

@Holger H. How old r u.

[@cameronsmith7222]

@Holger H. I think the word you’re looking for is “fuck mind”

[@mitriul1692]

idk... if I didn't't understand a single bit while watching it, I wouldn't enjoy it tho

[@yuh42011]

@@mitriul1692 exactly

[@Player-kg1ds]

@@AhmedKathiri Yeah lol I've seen this reply everywhere

[@ilhamburger8288]

I've come to this after a while, the future protagonist wouldn't have survived without Neil's intervention. This is just like The Grandfather Paradox, but inverted. HOLY CRAP, NOLAN IS THE GOAT

[@jg1692]

This movie was trash

[@yomamamama6213]

@@jg1692 hey just because you're stupid doesn't mean that others have to be the same

[@keshavraman7928]

@@jg1692 found the redditor

[@dazzly6109]

@@jg1692 just like you?

[@shivamkind3162]

@@jg1692 for small brains

[@theodornicolae4244]

Almost one year later.. i watched this movie like 50 times ( no joke ) and every goddamn time feels like its new. The best movie for me. Hats down !

[@RyanTheCreator]

I feel the same, I only saw it for the first time a few weeks ago but I've seen it 4 times since. I feel like I want to watch it again as soon as it's over.

[@Jay-fn5fr]

This video on another Tenet level, answering questions before I've asked them

[@reduxassn.9357]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5Ctk2t5Z7x4rpY TenetxDark

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

I think it's a misrepresentation to claim that the protagonist went back to "check in" on Kat and Max. He wasn't - what he was doing was responding to a call she made from the past when she noticed the suspect car that Pria and the assassin were in, on the phone given to her for just that reason.

[@someguy4844]

I think thats wrong. they were all in the present. he gave her an inverted phone.

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

@@someguy4844 That's what I said, how is it wrong? They were all obviously "forward", Kat had a posterityphone of the same sort that Sator used.

[@TrYzRAID]

wtf u on about... neil said it, not us... if neil is max then ofc it would look like hes going back to check on them, as youn boy neil doesnt know shit

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

@@TrYzRAID You are a liar and an irredeemable poltroon.

[@TrYzRAID]

@@noneofyourbeeswax01 huh?

[@YousifPhotoshopTutorials]

This movie caused me a headache But how Neil is Max and we know that if you wanna go back in time you have to live the time you're travelling ?? it means that Neil travelled 20 years ?? how ??

[@JDCT96]

I'd like understand about that please! I try to got the explain of video... but I can't. English isn't my native language.

[@randomhuman97]

That can be answered by the neil is max( Debicki son) theory. Neil says he gets recruited 9 years from the end of the movie. (9 is a recurring number in this movie- 9 million, 9 algorithms) So 9+9 if you include the inversion travel (guessing). But if they're not the same person, then it cloud be anybody. We need a tenet 2 for that

[@XilenceSR]

@ball baby 2 don’t you age while reversed? Like you are 20 years at timepoint B, reverse to timepoint A 10 years in the past and come out a 30-year old?

[@TheLio666]

@ball baby 2 it seems aging will continue even if you go backward time I m perplex councerning Neil could be Max The Maximilien theory is not clear The name is Max It cold be Maxence or Maxwell I a preference with this name After all Maxwell is a well known Physicist And another caracter is named Weeler after another well known scientist

[@TheCarter117Gaming]

@ball baby 2 not sure if i understand what you’re saying, but you do not go backwards in age... the world AROUND you is reversed when you are inverted, so your perspective is what changes.

[@CountingSuns]

I wish that they would’ve included more conversations between Sator and the future as to how he built his wealth and his convoluted ideology and his and Priya’s knowledge of the future in such detail

[@melissacross5525]

There is no way in hell Nolan can top this. If he does, my mind will literally split open.

[@LebowskyDude]

it's so boring I'm not sure he can go any worse, you're right.

[@hatedwoods]

@@LebowskyDude You don’t like Tenet?

[@hatedwoods]

@WorldFlex I don’t really watch movies but this one blew my mind away, I just automatically loved it then the plot holes made it even better for me

[@steveflores4773]

@WorldFlex I saw a different video and there's actually no plot holes its just really really complex. Like Neil is actually max the woman's son and he's kinda the protagonist ish. I mean it was a good explanation but even now I'm still a little confused cuz it'd quite complex

[@steveflores4773]

@WorldFlex nah what I mean is he goes back and foward in time throughout the whole movie. He was at the beginning he was at the end. He dies for a friend he knew for many years existing while there are like 3 or more versions of himself in the same timezone. Connecting everything. It's only complex trying to imagine everything happening simultaneously the plot itself is easy to understand and I enjoyed the movie very much. It wasn't neccesarily a predictable movie and it's something you have to think about so I enjoyed it very much if you didn't then what a shame it is your opinion.

[@therealfilmnerd]

Me: I will never completely understand tenet. Me 10 years later: Tenet? Oh that wasn’t confusing at all, look at this new one Christopher Nolan made, now that’s confusing

[@jeremywoods770]

Yeah, its about a man with short term memory who becomes a superhero and travels through space going backwards in time to get to the beaches of dunkirk, but it turns out it was all a dream within a dream.

[@therealfilmnerd]

Yes it is, what a great movie

[@johann3256]

@@jeremywoods770 Tenet, dunkirk and inception, anything else?

[@jeremywoods770]

@@johann3256 momento, batman

[@greatgolfer23]

You mean 10 years ago?

[@Kush6542]

Are people still trying to understand it after 43 years of release 😂😂

[@abreyliggins1116]

brrruuh

[@idk-xl4lz]

i dont understand

[@reduXstereo]

@@idk-xl4lz Apparently he is in the future now.

[@KaushikTare]

What in the Pincer is this?

[@kyledelrosario8963]

Bro no! 😂

[@anthonyefimoff7228]

Great video. For all Tenet's flaws, it is such a stylish and cool movie. I hope it will be talked about for decades, cause I think it deserves to be. Hats off to Nolan on this one, and thanks for explaining a couple parts I had questions about (most of the movie).

[@father3dollarbill]

I don't think there are any flaws. Tell me a few.

[@prashunrajdhital6139]

'yes' : Nolan Audience: 'time Inversion Is about the movie?'

[@danrebeiz4598]

Come on people! @Prashunraj Dhital, you deserve a thousand likes for that comment. Extremely funny and clever. Bravo

[@SousouCell]

Very underrated comment ...... wish i could like a 100 times

[@skrskr9000]

Lol that was smooth my brain is still trying to understand it

[@RavenZeroZX]

Sey

[@abhiget000]

ahahahahah

[@GeraltBosMang]

I like how you always tear up with Max's ending.

[@heavyspoilers]

And people say this movie has no emotional heart 😭

[@shawnyewest3966]

@@heavyspoilers technically Neil will never be permanently dead the protagonist will send him back to the past he’ll make sure the protagonist survives he’ll live to the future and send him back again it will just keep going in a loop

[@crohero1000]

@@heavyspoilers Well to be honest it doesn't for most of the movie, but yeah the ending was emotional af.

[@genises200]

@@shawnyewest3966 he also will never permanently be alive :(

[@ToTaLShaFF]

I still dont understand

[@bengejuknowit3048]

Yeah, me too! lol

[@mjolninja9358]

@@bengejuknowit3048 lol !oot em ,heay

[@sadjadasadi4575]

It's designed to be not understandable whether scientifically or just from the other aspects. We can find a lot of questions without any answer.

[@bengejuknowit3048]

@@sadjadasadi4575 yea, but the part where he meets the scientist lady, who explains how bullets go back into the gun......which is the major technical aspect of the film just wasn't clearly told or made sense! If you work at NASA, u can probably follow it fine!

[@marcusmagice]

The future has waged war against the past so that the future isn’t fucked up !

[@justinstoll4955]

I rewatched this movie a lot since its VOD release. Although I understood enough upon three theater viewings, having the subtitles on make the movie WAY BETTER because you can catch small lines of dialogue that explain things in the movie.

[@realdavebob]

Absolutely. So glad I bought it on Blu-ray.

[@dpw0499]

absolutely

[@ronnhgas]

I've been loving Christopher Nolan since Memento. I can see his love for Movies that make you think and understand why he keeps pushing the envelope for smart Movies. Too bad so few people can appreciate his unique style.

[@reduXstereo]

The man hasn't won an oscar yet or did he?

[@Chromedbustop]

What do you mean so few appreciate his style? This guy gets more praise than almost any director right now. And he's the only one to come along in the last 20 years whose allowed to make big budget films that aren't tied to established franchises. In fact even when he makes mistakes and poor choices (which he does) people will still come up with ways to explain it. "Oh, people just don't understand!" The man gets plenty of appreciation. Perhaps too much.

[@AaronAbernethy]

So few people… fucking hell, get over yourself, he’s probably the most successful mainstream director around at the moment.

[@JD86Vintage]

I appreciate Nolan as much as anyone... But this one was a flop and a mess. Think through catching the inverted bullets for a second here, really think them through. The first one we see is at the opera. At what point does the bullet hole appear in order for the bullet to get "caught" out of it. Has it always been there? If so why hasn't someone noticed the bullet hole in the opera house? Why haven't they fixed it? In order to "catch the bullet" there has to be an inverted shell casing laying on the ground near by. Why does no one notice all the random shell casings? Do the shell casings just appear before the gun fight? Or has someone cleaned them away and they jump out of the bin and roll backwards towards the gun fight? How do you even send an inverted bullet back? They need to be sent back as a bullet and a casing with the bullet imbeded in the spot you catch them from, but that spot isn't in a turnstile. Or how about when he's driving around with a broken mirror that gets fixed by the inverted car. How long has the mirror been broken? When did it break in order to be fixed? Does it break just before the car chase? If not has the car been driving around with a broken mirror? Did they manufacture it with a broken mirror in order for it to be unbroken during the inverted car chase? Visually it's a great movie. Logic wise, it's a failure. Even story wise. If she kills him on the boat why is he around later in the time line to meet the protagonist? It can't be the future version gone back in time that she kills because future Sator would know that he failed because the bomb went off and the world didn't end. But it was some version of him because she saw the future version of herself diving into the water after she killed him. If future Cat is there, and kills him, then does that mean there's two versions of her in that time line or does her past self live out the time line she's just been through in order to be the one that dives in the water? But then if she's living in a continual loop her future self has killed her husband so why the heck is Sator still alive for the rest of the movie? Did you notice the conversations continuing but moving locations... Or even countries? Did they stop the conversation and then resume it in the new country? Does that mean they changed the subject in between places or do they just not say anything until they get to the new location. This had the potential to be really good. It's just a hot mess any which way you think it through, and even if it's Nolan's "style" he's just gotten way out of control. The only way the movie remotely works is if you follow the doctors advice and don't think about it.

[@maaaaaap]

@@JD86Vintage maybe the future constantly changes by their actions, but they just believe it doesn't

[@casualsneakercollector24]

The female scientist that explains the inverted objects to the Protagonist cannot be the scientist that invents the algorithm in the future. In a conversation with the Protagonist, Priya says that the scientist that invents the algorithm is born “generations from now”

[@nagarajm4647]

What does Priya know... She is dead

[@KillahBee001]

@@nagarajm4647 what? someone could’ve told her before she died, it’s that easy. don’t look at it so linearly

[@ThePandaManRansom]

Yeah it’s like 200 years or something

[@MerthanE]

She could have just gone back in time though and reversed herself again

[@anthonyrodriguez96]

@@MerthanE you'd age with time, i dont think it is her since the only "things" that are gathered from that time period are objects, not people. makes sense that she would be generations in the future since she never comes back herself

[@Chromedbustop]

"Why can't anyone understand what anyone is saying anytime in the movie?" This is actually a problem Nolan has had in many of his films. I think he likes to have his dialogue "sound" real (because real people don't actually speak in the way everyone does in his movies. But that's a different matter). The thing is, in the real world people often say things like "Huh?" "What?" "I can't hear you." Things people can't say in movies. This is actually a common thing in movies today where the dialogue is often muddled. [If you don't think this is the case compare movies today to movies from say the 90s or earlier where the dialogue is often very clear]. This is compounded in Nolan's films because they are often very exposition heavy and dealing with things that are generally more complex than one generally gets in a film script. Not because movies are stupid, but they need to be more usually need to be more efficient because the format has an inherent time constraint that other mediums don't have. Nolan's films generally need to be re-watched not because of their complexity, but because of their confusion, which often stems from the fact that too often you can't understand what the characters are saying. And before some snob chimes in with a "Oh I can always understand everything, it's so easy!"; this is not something unique to this movie, nor Nolan. Although it is a common criticism of his films. He's generally a good director, but he's not perfect.

[@Caped___Crusader]

This is a well thought-out attempt to answer complaints from some about the sound editing in Nolan films, but unfortunately it’s an incomplete and inaccurate one. Aside from your comment that real people don’t talk the way characters in Nolan films do- a comment that is odd seeing as how many of the greatest directors that have ever lived have chosen to write stylistic dialogue that is both distinct and deliberately different than what normal, every day conversation sounds like (and fully understanding that Nolan commonly utilizes exposition in his writing for reasons we both understand)- it’s important to note that Nolan is known in many ways to be one of the only “blockbuster film purists” because he stays true to certain grounded film techniques/approaches in many different ways while producing big budget and high grossing films. One of the things that is exemplary of this “purist” approach is his decision to consistently and intentionally avoid using post-sync Automated Dialogue Replacement, or ADR. He prefers to capture his actor’s dialogue on camera in the moment, and not always digitally post-record in studios. Now this isn’t to say that some “purists” don’t use ADR, but it’s something that a lot of independent filmmakers don’t use, for example. It’s a deliberate choice that Nolan does for a handful of reasons, one of them being the pursuit of pure authenticity by capturing exactly what’s heard on camera the way it was filmed and emphasizing production sound. There are some great articles and videos you can read/watch about Nolan’s decision to do this. Tenet is different in that it was mixed differently and not the way it was intended to be, largely due to pandemic complications. That’s not an excuse, just simply information about what actually happened. Now, you and others may not like that approach to sound design, but it’s still a deliberate choice with an underlying purpose. I think it’s a decision that should be respected regardless of personal opinion. Therefore it becomes slippery at best to label it as a “problem”. It’s a “problem” if everyone disliked it- which I can assure you everyone does not- or if it was something he didn’t understand or was overlooking/neglecting altogether. I’m not saying people can’t have different opinions on sound design, but it’s important to highlight the truth beyond Nolan’s sound design decisions... and it’s also worth noting that Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece “Dunkirk” and “Inception” both won Oscars for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing. Throughout his entire career he’s had 8 AA Sound nominations with 5 total wins.

[@Chromedbustop]

@@Caped___Crusader We're approaching this from two different perspectives, and I can pretty much assure you we're not going to agree on it.

[@miarabea401]

I’m German and usually I watch movies in English because I can understand it good enough but this film confused me so much that I thought I couldn’t speak English anymore:D Good to know it wasn’t just me.

[@Caped___Crusader]

@@Chromedbustop that much I can agree with you on.

[@Nightcrawler333]

I'm not a native English speaker. So, I always watch English movies with subtitles. That helps a lot in understanding the dialogues. But I always imagined native English speakers can follow the dialogues. Looks like this is a problem for all..

[@Tomfoolery1972]

When you *almost* understand something from Tenet but then an ad for Doordash or Weathsimple breaks your concentration 😭😭😭

[@number_8903]

Laughs in adblocker

[@Hoffsaucey]

laughs from the future@@number_8903

[@Savagely-Average]

I feel like the biggest idiot on the planet. I am still lost no matter how many of these videos i see. I think I start to understand, and then it just unravels on me. Props to Christopher Nolan. Genius work on making a film that I am going to WANT to watch a dozen times, just to get it and a dozen more to see what I missed.

[@dmitriishatokhin]

Same for me here

[@J0MBi]

@@dmitriishatokhin It's easier to understand the plot if you take a look at a Sator Square, the story elements are even named after the words in the square. SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS

[@MrSpeedyAce]

When the Protagonist is inverted and on his way to the airport, he begins to bleed. This is because his future-moving self is going to stab him in the turnstile room. He bleeds first, then gets stabbed, then heals. Another cool detail. Even the effects of reverse entropy of impact is shown in the movie. You see in the first version of the turnstile fight scene, the inverted Protagonist is on the floor. And the forward-moving Protagonist suddenly feels a force pushing him backwards. You can even see his surprised reaction. He's feeling the inverted impact from the future interaction.

[@SirFake314]

It is a cool detail but it raises some questions on when the damage/injuries show up. Did his wounds unheal from birth up to the point he was stabbed? What about the bullet holes? Where the windows just installed with bullet holes in them?

[@liono1983]

@@SirFake314 think of it this way. Invertes protagonist's arm forms a healed wound then starts to bleed all the way up until the point that he gets stabbed. Future self is going backwards and catching up to the point when the action took place the point where he and his past self fight and he gets stabbed. The reason he wasn't bleeding earlier is cause it hadn't happened yet and he hadn't caught up to the point by going backwards yet until the airport scene.

[@liono1983]

Actually his forward movinf past self stabbed him. Saying future moving self is a bit confusing.

[@MrSpeedyAce]

@@liono1983 Also like Neil says, “What’s happened happened”. The ultimate actions of the world are already determined.

[@SirFake314]

@@liono1983 Yeah I get it in theory, but it is odd to think how the car found itself upside down on the freeway or the windows with bullet holes. What happened happened, but since time is running backwards for everyone else’s frame of reference, where do they come from? The bleeding wound is easy to brush off as “unhealing” itself. But did a worker at the airport install a broken pane of glass from his point of view or did the bullet holes appear somehow before the glass was “unshot?”

[@abs6919]

Keep these tenet videos coming haha can't get enough of this movie.

[@heavyspoilers]

Yeah got a couple of ideas

[@useruserrr]

Yea I love these vids

[@pacmanfanable]

Just watched it last night. Just in time. Keep them coming

[@sarahaddad]

I loved it even more watching it the second time.

[@balladewilliams]

I loved this film because I literally wrote about time travel (what they call inversion is what I counted as time travel) for a uni essay. The reason they have to see themselves exit the turnstile is because, if they really are about the enter it, that must mean that they’d be able to see themselves coming out. If you enter, you come out the other side. But since you come out the other side BACKWARDS in time from the original perspective, you must already be able to see yourself coming out as you’re about to go in. The reason this is so confusing is that this creates a kind of circular causation, where the reason you enter is because you see yourself exit, which means the reason you exit is because you already saw yourself exiting. But there’s actually nothing conceptually wrong with circular causation like this.

[@jarradscarborough7915]

" nothing conceptually wrong with circular causation like this." possibly because they already intended to enter before they ever saw themselves, seeing themselves exit is simple verification rather than a cause.

[@AbubakarGaro7]

Nolan: You’re Welcome Us: Thank you for making Tenet

[@thejquinn]

Why would you thank someone for making a convoluted mess

[@Player-kg1ds]

@Meta Man I appreciate your comment but stop posting it literally everywhere lmfao

[@gbnf4life]

Am I the only one who thinks this movie gets better after every rewatching? I often can pick up on another thing that I missed previously.

[@thegrayyernaut]

You're not

[@DMBAKO]

Absolutely! I'm watching it for the third time now and its amazing how many things you pick up on

[@charlesspeaksthetruth4334]

This movie was made to be watched for multiple viewings. I really liked it the first time I watched it, loved it the second time watching it and picking up on everything I missed the first time.

[@Kenzoo_spaz]

Because you're able to understand the time paradox better

[@atomiccritter6492]

good for you that you have rewatched it but I thought it was dull and poorly told

[@Fleato]

Like most Nolan movies, I’ve noticed that this movie was Luke warm reception at release but at time goes on it seems people are more positive about it.

[@beanieweenies2383]

@Holger H. big oof this was one of his best movies

[@psyberwolf4514]

@Meta Man I am not frustrated with Nolan or the film - only in that you keep posting the same comment over-and-over!!!

[@PhunnyFish21]

@Holger H. so what you’re saying is you only watch movies if they spoon feed the story to you? The reason for this movie is to watch it multiple times. Nolan wants to create that special cinema experience that required multiple watches. Why watch a movie once and then be gone? Watching a movie more than once is important to truly unravel the story. Try watching it a couple more times and maybe you can grasp an understanding of the story.

[@samuelperezgarcia]

Most Nolan movies are box office successes. The only lukewarm reception in recent memory is this one, and only because of the Pandemic.

[@samuelperezgarcia]

@Holger H. he had a nice concept but tangled it too much for his own good. I enjoyed the movie, but only for the SF ideas and cool action scenes. The execution itself wasn't good.

[@Omar_listenin]

gotta admit the completely straight delivery of 'pls click the thumbs down button, and make sure you unsubscribe from the channel to never see a video again' got me

[@Profile__1]

I commented this already on another video on Tenet, but I think that Inverted Protagonist shooting at his past self could be a symbolic tie-in to the main plot of the film, with how the Future seems like it's trying to kill us. I believe that since they're from the future and already know their plan to detonate the algorithm bomb fails, they're just running through the movements to ensure their past occurs in the first place, cementing the founding of the Tenet group in the first place. Similar to how Inverted Protagonist knows for a fact that the bullets won't hit his past self, the Future is attacking their past ancestors to ensure their own goals of potentially saving the universe will happen. Perhaps they're ensuring the creation of Tenet in the first place because the group was/is/is going to be vital to the safety of humanity throughout history, and the only way to ensure Tenet's creation is to attempt a fake attack of the past. Kind of like the boot strap paradox; the knowledge they receive from the past is actually from the future, with in turn was from the past, so the only plan they know that will work is one that has already technically happened.

[@turdferguson9452]

Sounds like this whole operation was a temporal pincer

[@ysa7823]

There are so many films about time travelling. And of course, Nolan made the most unique one ever! Tenet makes Memento, Inception, and Interstellar look like pre-school! Nolan is always so original with his ideas, his storylines, and the scientific concepts. I was confused a lot of the time but I was still hooked to the movie. I wish Nolan never dies and just continues making these mind-blowing movies!!

[@astynlc3618]

Movie was boring. I have no reason to give a shit about any of the characters presented.

[@dranoelarios4788]

Pre destination and multiverse theory is not pre school But I can see where you are going 😄

[@tegesnripendra9473]

@@astynlc3618 the movie's a masterpiece imo

[@scottie3264]

@@tegesnripendra9473 people tend to be critical of things they don't understand... Calling an action movie "boring"? Lol

[@tegesnripendra9473]

@@scottie3264 yeah lmao

[@SpindicateAudio]

The proving window is actually very significant. One of the big critiques of the film is "If you were chasing someone who is inverted, why not just invert a bit later and wait for them to come out of the turnstile?" Well, the turnstile shows you not only that you got out, but also that no one was lying in wait to ambush you!

[@JD86Vintage]

So just wait until they're clear of the window and then shoot them out of view? 😂 The rules of this movie don't work, don't try and justify them.

[@uncannyvalley3190]

@@JD86Vintage you’re rebuttal is missing the point. It shows that you didn’t die inside the turnstile or somehow remove yourself from space and time.

[@JD86Vintage]

@@uncannyvalley3190 not really. As long as you've seen yourself coming out the other side and out of view you're safe up till that point. But what happens beyond that is anyone's guess. Think about the airport turnstile the second time around. We have the first protagonist, fighting the backwards protagonist, who enters the turnstile and comes out going forwards at the same time the backwards one emerges. The third one, the one that goes forward that Neil let's go, he can step around the corner and get shot in the head, even though the second one safely saw himself enter the turnstile. But he won't be seen getting shot in the proving window. Now in this case I agree, the one emerges going backwards can't die because we see him going forwards afterwards. But that's a unique case where the past, present and future are all in one place... However, when the protagonist enters the turnstile going backwards before the car chase, he sees himself exiting and going backwards, but once he is going backwards he can step around the corner and be shot, because the backwards version is actually his future self, not his past self. So once he steps around the corner he can be killed, because that would be getting shot in HIS future, just it happened in the relative past. The one on the other side of the window as you enter to get inverted or reverted is always your future self. Once you've been inverted the one on the other side is your past self, but you know they entered safely because you emerged. Get it? 😂🤣😂

[@uncannyvalley3190]

@@JD86Vintage I get that once you can’t see yourself you don’t know what happens, but that wasn’t what I was arguing, I was arguing to just to make sure you get through alive is why you need to see yourself.

[@JD86Vintage]

@@uncannyvalley3190 I know that the window shows you going in and out of the turnstile safely. But there's nothing to stop someone who's inverted laying in wait for you to come out, outside of the proving window. What you're seeing in the window is your future, but you're perceiving it backwards. So sure, you see yourself safely exiting, but it doesn't mean there's not someone laying in wait for you out of view. Just that you got safely inverted.

[@crontemisto8994]

They explain the whole "why did the protagonist shoot at himself" thing in the dialog. It's because the fram num fdsl f klsdjf fdg muffle flumflum nthng nthng smthng smthng fribble t gluss. Just like they say in the movie.

[@gtdmg489]

Underrated

[@stanley805]

@@gtdmg489 please translate this i just finished the movie for the first-time and have soo many questions

[@Macadamia923]

I hate the word “algorithm” now.

[@Lee86THUNDER]

Algorithms said you'd say that

[@jae2251]

@@Lee86THUNDER Nice

[@Dognuhtz]

@@Lee86THUNDER AHAHA

[@averagebat761]

I didn’t need this to do that

[@yarraidalg]

i had to use the word algorithm approximately 50-ish times in my thesis so i get ya

[@EytschPi42]

I lobved your video.... I am still clueless as far as Tenet goes, but still.... job well done!

[@elysium3674]

You here?😂😃 Love your vids

[@radiusone216]

I heard a good description of it on the Film Junk podcast. The guy said some movies are confusing in terms of emotions and how to feel, but Tenet is confusing in the same way as an instruction manual

[@KaineAlpha]

@@radiusone216 tbh you can't understand the movie while watching it , because it shows both perspectives, for example the battle scene , it switched between inverted and regular and sometimes you have no idea what's happening

[@DodZz666]

I think Christopher Nolan himself cannot explain what is going on this film

[@FrazySting]

Didn't expect you to be here haha.

[@yurrgee]

8:25 i thought i was the only one that couldn’t really hear clearly when they talked. I needed subtitles as a crutch.

[@Dedubya-]

I suspect everyone that watches this will be frustrated at having to turn up the volume to hear the voices and turning down when the soundtrack kicks off.... I hate poorly mixed soundtracks... it was the most annoying thing of this film... and the utter confusion of what was going on :D

[@banparlous2552]

Oh, I watched an online bootleg cam version of this film w/ poor audio so i thought that was just me that i couldn’t quite hear the dialogue. Plan on watching it again w/ subtitles perhaps.

[@yurrgee]

@@banparlous2552 i watched the good version like 720p, 1080p at the most ...not really sure. But still could barley make out dialogue. It gotta be the way they’ve mixed the audio.

[@jdraven0890]

Yes - I expected it just to be when the music was too loud, but the dialogue was always difficult to understand. I tried every version my receiver could do, and the Dolby Surround TV logic was about the best

[@tsarge_017]

Wait! I thought my tv was fucked up lmao

[@sufferh3ad]

In my humble, uncultured opinion... Tenet is a bloody masterpiece.

[@RenfromBespin]

It gets better with every watch.

[@MeatBunFul]

This movie is an interesting study that experimented on new ideas. But it's far from being a masterpiece.

[@bongo526]

How do they 💩

[@Publiksquare]

Philistine

[@jamiesparker]

This movie is underappreciated. I’ve seen it three times and all I can say is that Christopher Nolan is a genius. The Inception is still my favorite movie tho👌

[@uraniumgaming123]

Because inception is understandable 😄

[@thrunzala]

Can't agree more. The more times I watch this movie the better it gets. But Inception is still the best mind blowing sci-fi movie ever. Probably because there are certain parts of this movie that I don't really like - Kat's character, the domestic violence, the not-convincing Russian accent, and the villain's cliche motive to end the world. This is just my opinion, don't hate me for it. Lol.

[@jamiesparker]

@@thrunzala It’s totally fine man😃 Everyone has their own opinion) Many people didn’t like it simply because it’s too complex. The only thing I didn’t like was the volume of the sound 😄

[@tegesnripendra9473]

i like tenet over inception cuz it feels great and fun to understand the movie by yourself. while inception is really good, the movie explains itself too much i didn't have the joy of trying to understand nolan's genius.

[@Raiya_ru17]

I don’t like rewatching films but I swear, I think I watched Inception 10x lol! My brain hurt watching Tenet tho. Still hard to understand how things are happening lol!

[@tobycook9383]

Saw it twice in theatres. Just got the blu ray. Am going to watch it with the family on saturday. Btw i would love to get the lord of the rings boxset please

[@JustSomeDinosaurPerson]

Another point on the "shooting at himself" is that since they were locked in close quarters, him shooting off to the side would force his past self to dodge away TOWARDS the turnstile, the future self's goal.

[@zach1972]

Big brain move

[@markphilipaquino4800]

wat?? i didn't get it

[@Dikimkd]

Um I think they said if you meet your past self you will try to kill him, so that is why he shot himself....

[@space_dui829]

This is exactly what the screen play says. He was shooting so he would move closer to the turnstile

[@TrYzRAID]

@Meta Man people are stupid and dont like to use their brains sadly. but yeah u hit the nail on the head mate :)

[@jeffreyscottreadsalot8854]

One thing I still can't wrap my head around: if the explosion makes Sator think that his future self will be successful in burying the algorithm, by logic, his past self should not exist anymore since Neil says the entire past should disappear instantaneously. How is this not a clue to Sator that when the explosion goes off, he still exists, so wouldn't he know he was unsuccessful in burying it? And, wouldn't the future generations know he was unsuccessful? They dig up the hypocenter thinking the algorithm was buried there, but find it empty? "Looks like we better warn Sator. There's no algorithm buried here. Better tell him he was unsuccessful." ??

[@Sinekyre14]

You just destroyed this entire movie with your post, lol.

[@J0MBi]

good point, but maybe Sator only thinks of the plan to invert himself and go back to that point after the protagonist hands him those final pieces, so from his point of view this is the first time around.

[@mariamonteiro1932]

Exactly! Like the movie makes 0 sense because I have this logic stuck in my head!!!

[@aryansinha3629]

The past self and himself are 2 seperate entities, killing the past one won't kill him

[@t-t8961]

@@aryansinha3629 he means that if the bomb is buried then the future people will dig it out and detonate it so the past should be destroyed but past sator his past wife and past world is still alive so isn't it an indication that bomb didn't detonate?

[@warriorboltz8817]

The future protagonist also shoots at his past self to the left side of his head so that he forces the past self to move to his right, towards the machine, which is where the future protagonist is trying to get to

[@machaolesplendide]

It's because the writers are dumb af.

[@NiMayne]

This movie would be prefect to get a sequel and also a prequel as it's precisely in the middle of a complete story. It fascinates me that they have a working version of time travel where everything plays out as it plays out, nothing gets altered in the past that ends up affecting the future. It's a ballet of the universe keeping things in order

[@MrGarryshinde]

Did you forget the line where Priya says "Generations from now?" Lol

[@tarsierontherun]

I almost clicked out of the video when he said that the scientist from the beginning is the oppenheimer lmao. I couldn't trust anything he said after that.

[@mr.lijahkthe1st112]

Or is it?

[@JosephQuillen]

Yeah I've heard people say she must be the scientist also, but this line suggests otherwise. That said, policy is to suppress. And she has only what she has been told. So she believes generations, but it's not like, definitive.

[@geoffireland6365]

Exactly. It felt like they were working towards explaining that the group was about 200 years in the future.

[@jonathannieves1000]

In addition to other responses, keep in mind that a generation is something like 20-30 years, not 100+ years. By that logic, two or three generations from now she might still be alive and able to discover the algorithm.

[@jackdolah2031]

NCU as in NOLAN CINEMATIC UNIVERSE! We need interstellar inception and tenet in ONE movie 🔥🔥🔥

[@LetsBendReality]

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

[@arnav8269]

That's gonna create a black hole where all movies gets sucked into and the whole concept of movies die.

[@kalki3060]

please my head will burst

[@weeyum99]

no we do not, i will have an aneurysm

[@brxndon567]

This movie will be appreciated as a masterpiece in the future “ironically”

[@jqyhlmnp]

I unironically don’t like it, you can’t stitch a meh plot and bland characters with great action and cinematography and music and lighting

[@licoriceluv906]

@@jqyhlmnp the plot isn't "meh" yeah it's confusing at first, but it is brilliant and unique. No other director would even attempt to make a movie out of this plot forget about executing it perfectly. The movie has some flaws but is actually good

[@atomiccritter6492]

@@licoriceluv906 why do you think its unique when time running backwards stories have been done before?

[@atomiccritter6492]

this is like dimwits claiming Cloud Atlas would be heralded as a classic....Tenet is a dull action movie

[@brxndon567]

@@atomiccritter6492 your opinion, but if you can’t see how clever and well crafted this movie is I suggest you reavaluate.

[@iMassimod]

One day in the future, my future self will understand this movie, invert myself, meet me in the present, tell me what the movie is about, but it will just be my future self talking backwards. POSTERITY.

[@rob541n7]

YRT ECIN

[@uraniumgaming123]

Not if you double invert Then your future self can talk normally to your present self Just luke kat did talk to sator and dived in water

[@aaronjiang8964]

You will understand it because your future self is going to you so, but then it doesn't make any sense because the understanding was never gained from elsewhere but yourself.

[@uraniumgaming123]

@@aaronjiang8964 it's called bootstrap paradox If you seen web series "Dark" you'll know it for sure

[@jakezimmer7256]

If that was gonna happen it would have happened already. I'm afraid you're out of luck

[@raunaky2511]

Loved the breakdown. Only had 12 ads in between a 12 minute video. I reckon, you can add another 12 so I have one every 30 seconds.

[@Durzo1259]

Get Ublock Origin, never deal with ads again.

[@Theutus2]

If you're on a tablet or phone, you can drag the timeline to the end, hit play then replay, ads disappear.

[@unopdr]

Dang. Why’d you get 12 ads? I don’t even think I got one

[@thejoelmeister]

After seeing the re-release in IMAX over the weekend, I've been having fun revisiting these videos. And then I realized getting everyone to revisit this movie and go back down all the fun rabbit holes of this concept was probably the most Tenet thing that Nolan could do for this audience - nicely done.

[@DTCJimmy]

People thought inception was a little confusing and then Interstellar came out and took a bit more focus and thinking. Then Tenet came and just said hold my keg

[@abhisheksavant4307]

Interstellar's only confusing part is the tesseract scene. Tenet on the other hand is confusing right from the get go.

[@ouroborosproductions]

Tenet was incredible I only had one problem with the audio it was when they were all on the wing boats and he falls off

[@TheDUDERX]

The scientist we see is NOT the woman who will invent the algorithm. Priya said the turnstile wont be discovered for generations. So the “future” they are talking about is the “distant future” probably hundreds of years from now. She will be long dead by then. Max was NOT Neil because 1. Max is too young at the end of the movie to become Neil. He would need to grow up for about 10 years. Then he would need to spend over 10 years inverted breathing canned oxygen to travel back to the events of the movie and be the right age to be Neil. This is not impossible but highly implausible. Neil doesn't seem like the kind of person who would spend a third of his life in a shipping container. 2. The Protagonist's mission and the whole point of his operation is to give Kat and Max a clean getaway they were promised. This breaks a core Tenet (HA!) of the operation - everybody in the know must be killed at the end. No lose ends. But unknown to everybody but the Protagonist, Kat and Max get a clean getaway and this has an even higher priority. This is what becomes clear in the final scene where he kills Priya to cover for Kat. This ultimately sets the Protagonist apart from the Sator, who would keep them both captive. If the Protagonist ended up recruiting Max later after all, it would undermine his efforts. 3. The Protagonist recruited Neil in the past. In the goodbye scene Neil says "You have a future in the past" implying that they have met in the past, before the Opera house incident. If Neil was Max they would have met in the future. 4. Elizabeth Debicki shot down the theory in a recent interview: "My son was my son"

[@FreeRunning1813]

Well, he could have just taken Max back in time. So he would grow up inverted. Then they would go back to the present and he could be Neils age.

[@TheDUDERX]

@@FreeRunning1813 same thing. As i said he need to spend atleast 10 years inverted if u assume max is 10 and neil is 30. U can’t just “go back in time” u have to spend that much time inverted. As i said its not impossible but highly implausible

[@FreeRunning1813]

@@TheDUDERX yup totally agree

[@herewego8686]

@@FreeRunning1813 doesnt being inverted requires very specific controlled situations. They couldn't even breath the same air. Seems hard to just take a kid back and have him grow up inverted

[@FreeRunning1813]

@@herewego8686 what I meant is that they could go a little bit back in time, then go back to the present, and then repeat that. So they wouldn’t have to live inverted.

[@obriforsandra5768]

I think one thing about the protagonist shooting at the window is because he already knows how the original fight went and this is him inverting himself to do the deed so the time loop remains constant. We see this at the end of the film when Neil returns the algorithm so he can invert himself to save the protagonist, therefore ending his loop. He had chose to just live his like, I think the entropy of time would have been shattered

[@thecopperbroom3657]

I've watched this over and over... a lot better than i expected!!

[@justindyson4753]

The explanation of the scientist being the future "oppenheimer" scientist that figures out the algorithm does seem to be correct as Pryia says that the scientist is generations into the future. Not every twist and turn has to be explained in this movie, these events can span further then the present. I believe the "oppenheimer" scientist is a random person of importance we never meet very far into the future.

[@Stones157]

I think the scientist who find the way to make things inverted could be the great grand-daughter of this scientist . As she could have learned many things from the information his great grandmother have achieved which is turn creating another paradox (bootstrap paradox)

[@Mr.Red.Hat.]

Just glad The Protagonist didn't utter the words "Where is she" batbale voice

[@reduxassn.9357]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5Ctk2t5Z7x4rpY TenetxDark

[@srivishnu3924]

Dont talk like ahole ..bale voice is good

[@samuelperezgarcia]

WHERE IS IT? WHERE IS THE ALGORITHM? SWEAR TO ME!

[@Kzuke]

Appreciate this explanation. I managed to get through the entire movie, confused as hell, coming out thinking it was a mess of a complicated storyline with Nolan being too clever for his own good. I may go back and watch it again with your explanation in my back pocket to see if it improves the experience for me. I've loved all Nolan movies, except Dunkirk, so I was really disappointed with Tenet on the 1st viewing.

[@samsung5]

Don’t bother, it stinks

[@GreatLordJason]

Tenet turned out to be my favorite movie of the year. I'm glad I didn't listen to the reviewers and gave it a chance. Yes, it can be a "hard watch", but it is a movie that makes you sit down and pay attention the entire time. It's worth it.

[@charlesspeaksthetruth4334]

I agree 100%

[@jantran5349]

nah, it is still bad, even if you understand it.

[@GreatLordJason]

@@jantran5349 Why do you think it is bad?

[@Tremori_A]

There's like 4 copies of the protagonist running around.

[@ExcuseMyWeebRudeness]

You know, I've only seen/heard people refer to him as "the protagonist". Does he have a name?

[@KaineAlpha]

@@ExcuseMyWeebRudeness other than the fake names he used , he has none, I usually just refer to him as The Tenet

[@yaloolah42]

@@ExcuseMyWeebRudeness Watching the movie for the first time, I barely knew anyone's name, so I just call him John David... or JD When I saw his name was literally "Protagonist," I straight-up laughed and somehow, it just seems brilliant

[@ethanmanning938]

Like in Primer

[@kbuie34]

There was three just in one area at one point at the Oslo airport.

[@the_vishalparihar]

I'd watched TENET tomorrow. It was great movie that my head is spinning since yesterday.

[@assasin19991999]

I loved how time travel kind of makes sense in Tenet, not like Endgame, Back to the Future etc.

[@1236remis]

Well in real life time traveling to the past cant exist. But if it theoreticly could it could go in probable 3 ways . All 3 movies work theyr way around different time travel. Tenet most realistic one. Endgame with multiverse and back to the future is i would agree is worst grandfather paradox the movie

[@assasin19991999]

@@1236remis Yeah, traveling to the past is impossible according to scientists, but the thing about Tenet I like is that they are not kind of time travelling, more of moving backwards through time. If you want to go back 10 days you have to spend 10 days going back, quantum pshysicists believe that positively charged electrons are going backwards through time and negatively charged electrons are going forwards in time, Nolan took this concept and went wild with it 😄

[@Kalumbatsch]

@@assasin19991999 It's not clear if backwards time travel is impossible. General relativity allows it, but we don't know for sure what role quantum mechanics plays. It looks like it's possible in principle.

[@WallahNein]

I don't remember endgame that well. Didn't they have multiverse theory in it? So everything they change in the past creates an alternative time line, but doesn't effect what already has happened for them, because that's obviously not possible (what they did in back to the future)

[@assasin19991999]

@@WallahNein Yes, I think they used timelines, which branch into multiverses. Back to the future used the good ol formula of grandfather paradox, makes no sense at all.

[@verio1502]

Thumbnail : "why did he fired?" Awnser : because What Happened Happened.

[@satheeshdaniel5244]

Exactly 😂😂

[@oOoScarecrow31oOo]

You don't have free will anymore in the past: what ever you do it has already happened.

[@tracealyea5841]

I watched TENET the first time and was confused out of my mind but then after a couple rewatches and a explanation video. I made it my top movie of the year. It was a masterpiece in my opinion.

[@novi493]

I honestly loved this movie. After 3 viewing and watching all of these videos, I have appreciated it so much more

[@ARBLACKx]

yeah its sad that ppl have only watched it once and then sh*t on it because they were too confused. This is a type of movie that rewards you with subsequent viewings.

[@respawnnowosrs3039]

I really enjoyed the movie. I have seen it 3 times and am about to watch it again as I still do not fully understand the plot. I love that it makes me think. As a viewer, I am challenged to follow along, and it's great.

[@Fred-zk3wv]

A big applause should be given to the writer's of this movie for managing to convince producers to green light it. I can only imagine how confused the producers probably were at the first pitch.

[@keenfire8151]

I'm sure its not too hard, just pitch it to them in reverse and its your typical Tom Clancy movie...and that has been 'lit' for years. :P

[@oOoScarecrow31oOo]

You remove the time-flow switching part and it's just a Nolan's Bond movie.

[@keenfire8151]

@@oOoScarecrow31oOo I watched an interview where Nolan said the same thing. The only reason he took the script was because of the time jumping shenanigans

[@WhatAreYouBuyen]

I'm glad I watched this on blue ray so we could turn on the subtitles!

[@Abitofeverything4]

Now that the film is out I can finally watch it with subtitles on :’) great video mate!

[@samuelperezgarcia]

Bought it from the Apple store and was going to do that, when I realized it did NOT have English captions (it does have subtitles in like 30 other languages). Apparently it's an Apple store problem, since I watched it afterwards at a friend's house on Prime and it did have the English captions.

[@ColtonRDean]

Anyone else see “Primer?” A low-budget indie film from a while back that had similar time travel rules.

[@skullsaintdead]

I think Primer (and also Coherence, which is great, but more entry-level) is better, I enjoyed Tenet but I feel short bursts of time travel (in minutes) is more plausible and I could wrap my head around it more than inverting objects (how can you invert something without creating a black hole, which then gave me an idea for a film: terrorists get a hold of machines used to create black holes). In Primer, I understood the motives of the protagonists (and was impressed at their changing motives/personalities) and as each scene ended, a new piece of the puzzle I hadn't picked up on appeared (e.g. use of ear piece). Tenet for me, whilst being visually stunning, wasn't as compelling. I just don't believe people would risk the Grandfather Paradox because of climate change (surely they have adapted or have tech to combat it in the future; they must or there would be no future). Psychologically, I don't think our future race would be so callous, if it were, would we not be callous too? Tenet ends kind of with a bow, he saves the girl and child (who's definitely related to Pattinsons character), while Primer ends with a Pandora's box, like time itself.

[@ripelivejam]

Vastly superior even if it was a nonsensical mess. It at least conveyed some ideas to the audience.

[@GirthyGary]

For me this is a creation story and Nolan’s works are a great rosarch test…I’m not sure if he intended to make a creation story but that’s what I see watching this movie