TENET (2020) Explained

#tenet #explained
In Tenet, the mind bending thriller from Christopher Nolan, a CIA agent has to travel through time and bend the laws of nature to prevent World War III. We're breaking down the films increasingly complex and massive scale story, answering every question along the way, and explaining the meaning of the ending.
P.S. Yes this is my longest video ever. Curse you Nolan!!!
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[@NAPALM.VIZUALS]

Christopher Nolan: yes Producer: how confusing do you want the plot to be?

[@tylerhansen5817]

Underrated comment

[@essiemae1488]

YESSIR

[@J0hnHenrySNEEDen]

one iceN

[@aaryarandive5072]

Oh my god so underrated

[@PhoenixMario]

UNDERRATED

[@alexandragoodrich3938]

I respect this guy soley based on the fact that he can maintain that customer service tone of voice for 40 minutes

[@skyeellie1511]

thats just his voice lmaooo

[@OldSchoolMinded]

i know this may be seem foreign to you, but there are people who do that in the real world for 8+ hours a day... lmao. not to mention, thats his normal voice xD

[@pieru]

@@OldSchoolMinded indeed bruv

[@Thegriff19]

I am sure he does these videos in multiple parts. Considering the information in this movie he probably had to go to his notepad many times.

[@barkendog1]

I couldn't make out any words he said after 30 minutes. I had to stop watching.

[@whatsmyname9742]

The movie was so awesome, can't wait for the trailer to be released!

[@dtm6676]

ZING! Good one.

[@TheAmitphatak]

This is really a good one.

[@thedivinemessenger]

LMFAOOOO

[@alirezased2673]

I heard Christopher Nolan is making a movie

[@pringle4992]

🔥🔥😂

[@EduardoGarcia-xt4vi]

Inception: Time goes slow Interstellar : Time goes fast Tenet: haha time goes brrrr

[@viviengathoni7774]

Awesome......... just, awesome

[@brown3394]

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[@brown3394]

dude dont forget memento time goes ???

[@docholliday4672]

U made my day 😂😂😂

[@J.R.__]

😂😂😂

[@WithHealthbars]

My friend and I watched this in theaters and we just kept saying “wtf is happening” but it was an amazing movie. I don’t envy how much work you had to put in to break it down but always appreciated.

[@prescottherbert9248]

eh. amazing is a stretch. i would say inception and interstellar are amazing, but tenet was just creative. the rules were too confusing to follow.

[@brainzapbaby8885]

Slightly unrelated but how were you able to watch this in theater what with the pandemic and all? I miss going to the movies but every cinema around me is closed (frustrating but totally understandable). Either way best wishes, I'm just curious is all :P

[@issaicx]

Prescott Herbert I agree with you I feel like Nolan wanted to make a high concept Scfi movie for hardcore fans of the genre. He succeeded but it kinda left casual viewers out in the cold. Inception I argue hits just the right balance of complexity and accessibility. Interstellar I’ve always argue was Nolan’s own version 2001 a space odyssey

[@WithHealthbars]

@@brainzapbaby8885 for some reason our local theater was open. We were skeptical about going but once we were there, there was only 8 people in the theater watching the movie us included.

[@brainzapbaby8885]

@@WithHealthbars Ah cool, well that's awesome you were able to watch it like that! Thanks for the quick response

[@nonyabuzznus2017]

I love how Robert Pattinson has seemingly avoided teen drama movies the second twilight ended.

[@UlshaRS]

Seemingly being the operative word since he was in a bodice ripper movie right after twilight.

[@theatog]

I mean... no matter what your acting career direction is, while one is young, it's impossible to turn down a role as big as Twilight.

[@Nightfire-ui9zu]

but 2:40....

[@AB-rl8iz]

Can’t imagine how many roles he must have turned down

[@HyphyJuice916]

He knew to make his "fuck you money" so he could focus on doing movies he wanted to do. Which apparently are great fucking mocies.

[@Noxjin]

I finished watching this yesterday, but i started watching it today.

[@skaetur1]

I watched it tomorrow, again.

[@noahsimmons3181]

Underrated comment

[@488dezzzy]

Best comment ever

[@iAsked900]

@@skaetur1 nah man you watching it tomorrow, for the first time. And today, again.XD

[@MrJaxon620]

Congratulations,you win this comment section 👏👏👏

[@BlueAmerican26]

You're a brave man for trying to tackle this one.

[@XO.AMBITIONS]

Honestly lol. I was so confused

[@brianpj5860]

Yeah, I got to the temporal pincer movement part before the big battle near the end and I had to check out. My head swirling around watching this one.

[@LuisSierra42]

I got confused even watching this explain video

[@victorowen2592]

LoL that’s why it’s 40 min long 🤣🤣🤣

[@joem1382]

Hell yea

[@saulloll8547]

Me: I understood interstellar, how difficult will this be? Me after finishing it: ayo wtf.

[@neo_7864]

what is ayo? is it asian thing?

[@mr.obvious4810]

@@neo_7864 mean ay yo. From english

[@neo_7864]

@@mr.obvious4810 oo aey yo

[@vanessaroper3028]

Ha! Not seen this expression since I was a kid

[@tagus100]

The fact that Robert Pattinson had no clue what was going on whilst filming and instead chose to learn his lines and go along with whatever he was told about the plot, was really a hidden message from Nolan to the audience.

[@dhavalvyadav]

ok Nolan fan boy

[@mind_drips]

@@dhavalvyadav shutup?

[@dhavalvyadav]

@@mind_drips asking or commanding?

[@villehallberg5118]

@@dhavalvyadav just stfu

[@ibrahim_-_-_]

@@villehallberg5118 hey it was your fault for putting the question mark

[@fadedapollo]

You know Tenet's complicated when foundflix takes over a 1/4th of the movie runtime to explain it

[@ofimportance5458]

@callmecatalyst No.

[@sebay1571]

@callmecatalyst im not reading all that💀

[@od7969]

@callmecatalyst man wrote a whole essay

[@Jamsessionroom1337]

@callmecatalyst Comments explained. Me am angry and me love found flix and me no like ppl and dumb movies but foundflix make dumb movies and dumb ppl good.

[@Anthony3k]

@callmecatalyst how u write a review of a review? 💀

[@Michael-xb7nq]

This wasn’t an explanation it was just an in depth synopsis

[@slingblade6651]

Exactly

[@peruperu-jj8zs]

Yes it was. No need to watch this video if you have seen the movie. Don’t waste your time people.

[@lunacouer]

They never are. All his videos are synopsis', so yeah, all of them are mislabeled. But, if you don't want to sit through a movie but still wanna know what happened, this is the place to be. 😊

[@nietsnut6206]

yeah he should've called it TENET (2020) SUMMARIZED

[@maple...]

@@peruperu-jj8zs honestly i needed this video after watching the movie. it wasnt the time travelling part that confused me, it was why some things happened. why did he meet with some old british guy and how did he know to meet with him? i wouldn't have known that if i didn't watch this. i also didnt have captions when i saw the movie so those wouldve helped

[@55MrRockets55]

I cant stop thinking about that line, "I ordered my hot sauce an hour ago"

[@chief8825]

Is your profile picture Scott pilgrim?

[@highboosted894]

@None of That Matters Bro lol

[@monstermoth1212]

"I ordered my hot sauce an hour ago!" Me: Sir this is a McDonald's please it's 4:30 and I have a kid to take care of

[@darthmomo6548]

Same

[@WilliamAmbervein]

It feels very much like "man I gotta say something cool" than "fuck that wasn't cool"

[@lonelystranger7114]

The leading man in the movie looks legit confused in the movie. According to his interviews, he himself doesn't understand the movie completely.

[@AirQuotes]

Most of the actors have said they were all confused

[@CharterForGaming]

Simple. Nobody understand because it involves time travel which is impossible for us to understand. Just like how a sentient 2D drawing would understand how 3D works

[@AverageAwesomeDude]

@@CharterForGaming there’s a really interesting story, film, animation I can’t really remember called flatworld where sentient 2D shapes exist and the main thing is the arrival of a sphere, it’s actually has some really good explanations and analogies for what it is like to perceive something that operates with more dimensions than yourself. Since everyone is 2D they see each other as just lines of different size but if something moves up or down (third dimension) it’s as if it’s spontaneously stopped existing in your perspective it’s actually quite fascinating

[@rukouJJ]

@@AverageAwesomeDude isn’t it also a book? I have a book called Flatworld and it’s also about a 2D dimension with the research made by the flat shapes about a 3d dimension

[@AverageAwesomeDude]

@@rukouJJ that’s probably the one. I never read it, but I remember an old physics teacher telling my class about it

[@nightskydawnnsd5994]

This is the kind of movie where you'll be like.. "Hmm.." "Ohh.." "Wait what?" "Ahh..." "Wait-- what??" "Okay okay I get it... " "Nope.. i'm wrong i don't get it" "Okay okay that's nice I think I am picking it up for real." *Movie ends* "Hmm.. I think I am still confused let me search up some explanations to finally settle things out."

[@AmberZamora01]

😅 guilty!!

[@Otokichi786]

Compared to this, "Arrival" was a breeze with it's Circular Time theme.

[@SunnyBoys2]

After watching explanation.. “I still don’t get it”

[@Bone-Owner]

Im still fucking confused but slightly less.

[@Dragonfly198]

Hahaha me 2

[@Leoprincess3038]

Same 😂😂😂

[@lonelystranger7114]

People who have watched it ten times already are still confused. The movie is incomprehensible. Source: reddit

[@mutulushakur6]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@halion50100]

I'm the only one who understands the movie lol

[@sogggy]

Nolan: Yes Critics: How confusing was the movie?

[@brogolibastard1205]

ah, see what you did there.

[@mochijennie2590]

Ahhhh clever

[@rashmirekha1615]

Ahh u did it reverse noice

[@darthmomo6548]

You had me in the first half not gonna lie

[@dominikpecuch2177]

you could also type the words reversed for extra confusion

[@vidman102]

One thing that still seems ridiculous to me is how the characters can’t breath non-inverted air, but their eyes can pick up non-inverted light waves. Still a really entertaining experience, and I’d love to see more of Neil and Protagonist’s adventures in the future.

[@lunacouer]

Isn't light kinda special though? Because light (photons/light waves) has no mass, it doesn't experience time. It's why nothing can be faster than light in our universe - everything else has mass slowing it down, causing it to experience time. So I think inversion has no effect on light. Or it could all just be a contrivance in service to the plot, and they never thought of it 😂

[@orisha2310]

@@lunacouer but it was explained that he’s inverted when he goes back. So if his eyes are inverted doesn’t that affect how he depicts light?

[@chaotickreg7024]

I thought it would have something to do with trying to convert C02 back into Oxygen. Your lungs can do it one way but they can't do it the other way. Meanwhile photons are all relativistic and probably don't mind you moving backwards so much.

[@souprah]

@@orisha2310 Dude No. Light doesnt operate in time. Please reread what he said.

[@vince864]

would seeing in reverse turn your eyes into projectors?

[@sleepless9994]

“Don’t try to understand it. Feel it”

[@AlbertoFolres]

Cheapest way out of Nolan for his plot holes. He still comes out as a genius for many people.

[@winwinmilieudefensie7757]

Thats what con artists and charlatans say

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen4737]

-Me to my when my stepsister asks why I have it whipped out

[@Dontworryaboutit961]

@@AlbertoFolres you must be fun at movies

[@pristinegarbagesir2997]

Movies like this make me glad to be a moron.

[@johne.nobody2946]

Loved Tenet. What a concept. A film about a man trapped in a temporal loop in which he can never quite get the hot sauce he’d just ordered an hour ago, doomed to repeat his mission forever and ever with plain, dry-ass, no-hot-sauce chicken.

[@ibnfaiz7430]

Homt saumce

[@jennifer9047]

This comment needs more likes! 😂

[@theskiesahead795]

What I've realised after watching this is that I understood what happened in the movie perfectly, it's just too batshit insane to actually make sense. Great film

[@AwesomeTiger267]

"Without any tell context, GET USED TO IT" Lmao literally a third of the movie

[@jkayrouz]

@Pib XTRA wat

[@TomEyeTheSFMguy]

@Pib XTRA Your wording is more confusing than this movie.

[@TomEyeTheSFMguy]

@Pib XTRA Maybe you could take some time to retype?

[@kashboywonder3364]

The part when the protagonist found out neil already knew him before they initially met really got to me 🥺

[@raihanaradhana2246]

for me is when TP saw the red tag and knew that Neil will die to save him. That part got me

[@ReeceyW]

@@raihanaradhana2246 yeah the line afterward really hurt too "this is the end of a beautiful friendship for me, but the beginning for you."

[@kayanechilds]

I just watched the movie through my school for free, now seeing the breakdown I felt a pain seeing the red tag on the soldier (Neil) that saved John in the very beginning. Catching those little details feels so bittersweer

[@Flowingriver]

Tenet is such a complex plot. My brain was melting. I didn’t understand all the details but I understood the big picture. Thanks for explaining

[@myellatorres2110]

**sees that the video is nearly 40 minutes** “oh this is gonna be good”

[@JackHammer503]

40 minutes later: ... wait what

[@charlessmith9753]

Is it bad that I didn’t even understand the explanation😂😂

[@LuisSierra42]

@@charlessmith9753 I didn't understand either

[@pixiebomb28]

I feel like this is a better version of the film

[@shammgod992]

Why u typing and not fucking me?

[@GabriellaXOTWOD]

After every streaming movie I watch, I cross my fingers he has done an ending explained. Specially THIS ONE.

[@Cobra85291]

I thought FoundFlix only did horror movies. Not complaining though.

[@HoopsHuddles]

John: By using this machine, you're risking the destruction of time itself! Sator: It will be worth it just to watch Memento forward.

[@splatman7300]

*sees guy smashing cello* Me, an orchestra guy: didn’t realize tenet was a horror movie

[@TomboyTommy]

Smashing or "smashing"?

[@dominiquepowell-saidykhan2916]

Now you see why he’s covering it! Lol

[@BigBoiSlave]

@@TomboyTommy “gnihsams” *

[@MrDeezy314]

Nerrrrrrrrd

[@Lisalvsjohn]

Nooooo....I was going to watch this! Thanks for the heads up! Lol!

[@seansteryu7398]

Fun fact: Neil doesn't want to reveal his identity cuz he is Batman

[@augursaudiocult]

Lmaoo

[@WingThaiJ]

And I still can't figure out why they never want to duplicate the comics and make Superheroes look like the comics by getting bodybuilders to play the role. He's too skinny to be Batman.

[@TheJaker5]

@@WingThaiJ What’s to figure out? That’s like literally every other comic book movie made in history. Actors beefing up for roles has been a staple in Hollywood for decades. You can always watch Ben Afflecks Batman if you wanna look at comic book accurate pecks and abs.

[@MugetsuSSGOD]

Actually I think he's Kat's son :) full circle

[@aaryarandive5072]

THATS EXACTLY WHY THERES MICHAEL CAINE (Alfred from Batman) omg

[@marvelleonline]

This "explanation" is deceivingly simplistic. You're just going over the movie scene by scene and stating the obvious, even quoting exact dialogue. 0.1% of this video is your personal deductions. You could have saved us 30 minutes of this and given a 5 min synopsis of the movie before delving into your personal findings and insight.

[@miranassy2759]

yeah, like he's just narrating the movie

[@fatherleo4603]

Why does Christopher Nolan always try to make me feel stupid??!

[@sebswede9005]

Imagine Chris Nolan making a Romantic comedy.

[@konstantinlapshin5010]

"Try"? D:

[@limyize]

@@sebswede9005 he did, I s Saw it 3 years from now

[@Riceball_caws]

Nah he just trying to make us smart obly we are not there yet 🤷‍♂️

[@sanura]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@SS-mk2yp]

Saw this movie 3 times and every time I think I understand it, one tiny detail will trip me up and suddenly I’m Jon Snow again.

[@catbat06]

probably because the people who made the film don't actually understand the story either...

[@IjazAhmed]

You know nothing.

[@gqtuesday]

Tenet is a good movie, it’s nice seeing people who like the movie also nice seeing those who don’t quite get it either. Nolan was very daring with his 3rd time I believe telling a story of with time. Neil tells us who’s at war when he explains the grandfather paradox. We’re learning about a much much bigger battle backwards it’s almost like a origin story for how the protagonist becomes the leader of the organization. The battle between our future selves and past. Weird hearing your future self is trying to kill you, usually it’s the other way around but the movie inverts that train of thought.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

I thought the far-future people were never seen. Only near-future Protagonist and the Villain having heard from them. The Inverted objects were sent by the far-future while the Inverted people were sent by near-future Tenet organization.

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

@@jakespacepiratee3740 Exactly, as the far future "antagonists" would have died from old age in the first place if they were to try inverting themselves to "stop" the global warming event by committing the grandfather paradox war crime. Only objects sealed within the time capsules can make it, and I doubt future folks have invented cryogenic chambers for inversion either.

[@Evelyn-pl3we]

I really enjoyed the film, but something that bothered me was how much Protagonists cared for Kat. He was incredibly passionate for her after seemingly knowing her for a short-period of time.

[@gowtham6822]

He saves her because she is a civilian

[@insipidbore4320]

Yeah if you noticed he was that way from the beginning. When he risked his life to change the mission and save the civilians from the bomb. He felt bad after putting her in danger which is why he put so much of an effort to make sure she had a happy ending with her son

[@cacao4249]

@@insipidbore4320 He actually needed her son to complete the mission successfully because Neil is her son.

[@insipidbore4320]

@@cacao4249 yeah but during the events of the movie he has no idea how important her son is. His treatment of her is down to the characteristics of his own personality

[@insipidbore4320]

@@cacao4249 also that's a theory not confirmed

[@RobyraDaFirst]

You spend the first hour and a half cross-eyed and confused, then the last hour steadily rising out of your seat in astonishment. Great move.

[@zayfromaroundtheway7716]

thats so true. i think it makes the whole experience in my opinion

[@lea-rw5cb]

Yer as you realise most the way through film he was fighting himself, part that made me laugh was how he beat up those guys in kitchen with ease, yet after that he got beat up several times with me expecting him to kill that main boss at end, but overall was a brilliant film

[@TheBrodyJody]

Interstellar: Hold my beer Tenet: Beer my hold

[@virtualpilgrim8645]

reeb ym dloH

[@JestiXertz]

Fun fact: He is actually explaining all of this in inverse.

[@randomperson4321]

*steve carell scream* Noooo!

[@PepePupas]

Good one! :D

[@N8kdmagazine]

Mind. Blown.

[@Fireking811YT]

What do you mean?

[@JokkeHimSelf]

He explained the movie backwards, then hit record.....

[@allmight5465]

Confusing, but was this movie great? :hint backwards read

[@foltgameeing]

?taerg eivom siht saw tub, gnisufnoC What the fuck does that mean?

[@Matthewtopia]

Everything

[@detriadh]

Great movie this was but, confusing?

[@dalouma-1]

underrated

[@brettkarling5671]

That was so slick!!! Best comment yet, if you don't understand this comment you don't understand the movie.

[@killer3000ad]

I didn't understand this movie tomorrow, so I tried watching it yesterday but still ended up understanding it next year.

[@revelare_xvii6269]

TENET --> “Explained”

[@notvietnam4112]

Yes because it’s actually “Ending Explained”

[@danielli9046]

@@notvietnam4112 actually as you can see, the title is actually titled TENET (2020) Explained

[@bruceleroywayne]

X

[@raihanaradhana2246]

lol its more like my brain: *press X to doubt*

[@AtomicSuperior]

*Loud X button clicking sound*

[@Jarebearrr]

The amount of thought put into this movie is absolutely incredible. I feel like I could watch this shit over and over again for the rest of my life and still not completely understand everything lol

[@bulletholeinthedrywall4634]

Exactly! That's why I love it

[@bboss7874]

this is the first movie I bought in over ten years.

[@nikhilnekopunch8501]

@Kimm West Exactly I wouldn't understand nonsense in my lifetime either

[@jrmelton4684]

The scientist said it best.. DONT TRY TO UNDERSTAND.. HAHAAH

[@IAnonymous3]

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe If I keep watching it every few months, when I’m 60 I’ll finally figure it all out finally🤣🤣

[@MrEL91N]

This isn’t really an explanation. It’s just a re telling of the plot. You don’t really get anything new from this that you wouldn’t have already gotten just from watching the movie.

[@BLINDCABBY]

Thank you for saving my time. Not to mention an annoying retelling

[@jdog12197]

Thank goodness somebody else noticed. I came here for deep analysis and all I got was cliff notes.

[@KrystalTwilight]

I mean, thats his entire channel so....

[@MrEL91N]

@@KrystalTwilight when I see explained I think of a analysis and not just a summary of what literally happened. Especially when it’s a movie like Tenet.

[@LC-fx2lo]

My brother told me to watch this film, because it’s, “Like the Matrix knocked up Inception.”

[@joyc.e.7511]

That's a wonderful description

[@yovanysegura4647]

Or was it inception that knocked up the matrix?

[@LC-fx2lo]

Me: “You should watch Tenet. Great film!” My friend: “what’s it’s about?” Me: “🤨🧐🤯😬

[@Sharakad]

The plot is easy to understand and even the concept. It is just hard to grasp how the invertion actually interacts with our world.

[@aenesthesia]

👍🏻🤣😂

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[@deadlyninja112]

🕧➡️⬅️🔄

[@AverageAlien]

you literally can't spoil this movie, because the beginning is the end

[@buuam7555]

"Tenet explained" Sips beer: "Yeah good luck with that"

[@falcon6752]

I love how it's "Tenet Explained" and not " Tenet ENDING Explain"

[@iAsked900]

1. There's complains about him explaining entire movie instead of just the ending. 2. I think this is one of those movies where the entire movie is confusing rather than only the ending. Tbf I think the ending is pretty simple compared to the rest of the movie. Personally my favourite Nolan movie

[@reggielaw9712]

"Ignorance is key" ohhh so that's why I don't understand anything

[@shortmovieclip3484]

You just have to feel it

[@JohnRedshaw]

Nolan first highly impressed me with "Memento," which is required viewing for anyone fascinated by time bending and rearranging.

[@juliantapia1407]

A movie who's last 15 minutes overwhelmed me in the best way. I legit wanted to cry. It's not necessarily romance, but it's love, it's trust, it's devotion. And seeing those pieces line up and understanding what's about to happen, what already happened, was so beautiful and tragic.

[@kiireereece2170]

love how you worded that.

[@Kingdavidw106]

I was confused the whole time

[@Bwaatiss]

When that chick who showed him the gun said "don't try to understand it, just feel it." I was like "oh, it's one of those movies, and there's the cop-out." It was pretty much a cue to check out mentally and just enjoy the action and scenery.

[@BigBoiSlave]

Exactly after awhile I was watching for the vibes

[@jax1384]

That’s one way to look at it lol. But I feel like the plot was integral to the experience, especially in the end.

[@joyc.e.7511]

@@jax1384 I kinda understood what was going on, enough to appreciate how sad the ending is.

[@grimsquad273]

Saying "feel it" didn't help me at all. After i heard that I was just hm..... nah ima jus undrstand it lol.

[@jax1384]

@@joyc.e.7511 same, I feel like the only thing that was confusing was the inverted time concept. The plot itself could be grasped fairly easily.

[@Test_Tube_Boi]

Very interesting use of the word "explain"

[@VimeleosZen]

WAIT so when Neil said "end of a beautiful friendship" it's because he dies on the locked door? That's actually much sadder.

[@carlsasau6162]

Yeah and because I cared about that a lot I cant understand the critics, that say the characters had no depth and importance to the viewer. I felt different.

[@MugetsuSSGOD]

Obviously 🤦‍♂️

[@irwinbonilla-guerra4196]

@@carlsasau6162 so what if I told you Neil was actually the bad guys kid and that’s why the bad guy says the only thing I regret is bring a child into a world that’s ending; hinting at that his own kid stopped his master plan.

[@dragonbrendan314]

@@irwinbonilla-guerra4196 actually that makes a lot of sense

[@BlindTruths]

@@irwinbonilla-guerra4196 I totally thought Max was Neil. Especially with the same hair, they’re both English. Kind of wish you could have seen the same charm on Max’s bag.

[@Leoprincess3038]

When the movie is explained and you're still confused 😂😂😂😂

[@skettcherr_3072]

Help😂😂😂

[@rochestermusic5858]

No dead ass we need a black interpreter...like listen nigga dis wtf happen

[@skettcherr_3072]

@@rochestermusic5858 exactly😂

[@777lucifero]

We need an explanation of the explanation.

[@ezrabridger8316]

he just says what happens in movie so isn't likely to help much... try this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIawo4KniNqHiac

[@manuelblunt2994]

I believe the reason we don’t find out the name for protagonist name or backstory is because he not only started up tenet but also was in the group that wanted to end the world. That is why information is directly kept from him. It points out that the antagonist cannot know that he failes. If so he will just go back and keep trying until he was successful. This gives a big the reasons why we know nothing of the main character he is both sides of the coin. What do you think?

[@nodrevilot]

this is exactly how it is

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

But judging by how the world hasn't been reverted by a bunch of tactical gear agents and Priya even stated the scientist inventing inverted materials committed suicide after knowing the "antagonists" would try to use it to destroy the past, but also it was revealed that Protagonist is the founder of Tenet in the future, but the tech wouldn't have been invented way after our lifetime. Plus unlike conventional time travel, a person, even if having their body reverted to the past, would still age as a normal person for the time it takes for them to go the point that they went back, so Tenet agents (Neil included) are much older than they appear, with Sir Michael stated his involvement in the Cold War as well. Even if Protagonist is the real antagonist and all of these are his future-self attempts to uh, dominate the world. then someone else, even bigger than Tenet, pulled the strings so that the future doesn't commit the grandfather paradox in the first place. Why would he want to kill everyone in the past if that risks creating a paradox?

[@halthammerzeit]

Donnie Darko seems pretty straightforward now.

[@enoch7564]

My question is, if Neil was sent back from the future to the beginning of the movie, that means he must have spent like half his life traveling backwards in time right? Since time travel isn't instant. So in order for him to have traveled all the way back to the beginning he must have spent years living in inverted time. Which also means the time he spent with the protagonist in the future must have been when he was like a teenager? Which means he was probably recruited as a kid?

[@ellenfox6869]

Noooo stop I’m even more confused 😭

[@ricardokassanda5973]

A lot of people failed to understand that Neil is an older Max that will be recruted by The Protagonist and spend his life on time missions, reason why he's older than himself in the same time period

[@enoch7564]

@@ricardokassanda5973 right I get that he's max but in order for the timing to work out he basically had to have recruited max basically right after the end of the movie right? Meaning when max was just a kid.

[@agentc7020]

You know, I think he could have been sort of put in stasis and then reversed, he wouldn’t age and he wouldn’t need to eat or drink until his reversion ends, seems plausible to me.

[@metzger5850]

The end of the movie is after all the time travel stuff we watch. Since time is moving regular when he's creeping on blondie, it makes sense that they just jump around willy nilly when they want or need to. Could be years in between jumps.

[@caderomine8331]

One of the best parts of Nolan movies is watching a movie's worth of explanations on KZbin

[@samuelr8174]

Dude you're honestly a legend for deciphering this movie.

[@dheuveltappin7017]

The movie wasn't that complex

[@professornova1236]

@@dheuveltappin7017 and what DO you consider complex then?

[@levischorpioen]

@@professornova1236 Primer.

[@Spartacus114]

It for real isn’t that complex, the main problem is how hard it is to hear the plot points they make when they explain so it feels confusing. Watch it with subtitles and it’s much, much easier to follow

[@nestormelendez9005]

@@Spartacus114 i watched it with subtitles and still have issues man Jesus but I somehow understood inception

[@deathdefying1472]

Anyone else didn’t see this movie but loves watching these videos

[@danielbuzo7261]

Present

[@boyikaruz8415]

Sometimes when i really interested in the movie i actually watch it after seeing foundflix's videos

[@dakoitcave817]

Oh inverted entropy exists. See for yourself...’ok nice’. I love it how John acts as if it’s just factual knowledge and this doesn’t creep him out or drive him bonkers. That’s what really got me this entire movie. He’s just so nonchalant about it.

[@jennszhang]

As a cellist, seeing someone stomp through a cello physically hurt me.

[@nemiza8288]

I don't play cello but a c k it hurt my heart as a musician.

[@Majestic469]

It’s costs so much

[@blakeerenhouse943]

Big Violinist*

[@Cangeltibon]

As a lover of string instruments who couldn’t play one to save my life, I’m 30 minutes into this video and it still hurts

[@niktour352]

I was like Not the cello!

[@foxford7135]

My guy didn't even mention the cheese grater

[@gl0wcat]

I clapped at this and I was watching it by myself

[@Thetopnoobpro]

33:08 the person in the right side of the screen is Niel, the Niel that is in normal time (the Niel in the background) is running to the car to honk at Ives and The Protagonist and then save them from being blown up. But because in the film we are watching this from the inverted Niels perspective the Niel in the background is running backwards because they are in normal time. Obviously

[@craigh5236]

'We're finished' You mean we just begun.

[@IBKade]

Movie Theaters: Help! Covid destroyed our profits and people aren't watching enough movies Tenet: Let's make a movie where people have to watch it 5 times to understand!

[@thackthack177]

Explained doesn’t mean, summaraize the dialogue from every single scene in chronological order. It means explain what the fuck is going on in this movie

[@chriticall9996]

This is a perfect example of a movie that can’t be done justice in a movie review. I watched it twice and still didn’t catch all the things in the film, and talked with my dad about it for hours. Would definitely recommend watching it if you can bc it was mind bogglingly good.

[@juliusejudo]

It is one of my favorite type of movies, the kind you can watch over and over amd still find little things that matter

[@TheCaptainOfToast]

Hearing him explain the dialogue is a Godsend cuz lord knows we couldn't hear a goddamn thing during the movie lol

[@kalaya01]

And Cat's well-schooled son MaximiLIEN grows up to be NEIL (Inverted) with the same sandy hair.

[@-switched-2826]

Neal is a really cool character. I think more people need to praise him.

[@Meatwad787]

Naw the main character is enough. Just like his father.

[@seansteryu7398]

Neil is actually batman

[@Dianechan1]

As a person living in Estonia myself, which where most of this movies scenes where shot, i can tell you that it makes me feel proud of my country to see its beauty in a worldwide famous movie. The first scene where the theatre is said to be in Kiev, is actually located in Tallinn, Estonia. Its name is just Tallinns Linnahall.

[@reidhanson4755]

One reason Tenet is so confusing is because there's a lot of filler storylines that seem important but really aren't. Like multiple huge storylines. And ironically some of those (the stuff with the Mob, CIA and Tenet itself) were more confusing than the inverse stuff. Plot is actually simple: John sets up a series of events in the past from the future to stop the universe from ending because he knows exactly what needs to happen because he lived through it and got help from himself. Everything else is just confusing for the sake of being confusing. Plus seeing inverted people do stuff (and the whole ending fight) is kind of a mind fuck but that's not plot crucial.

[@JJ-zo7jv]

This is the best explanation I have heard yet. Thank you so much, sir. I’m indebted.

[@beepbop6542]

Most of the plot would work perfectly well if it just had normal backwards time travel. Except a lot more boring.

[@fighterofthenightman1057]

You know a movie is complicated when you have to watch the Ending Explained twice. Great work, as always, FoundFlix!

[@561skyline]

Nolan’s movies are always a big picture for a really simple lesson. In this case i believe its “whats happened, happened. But its not an excuse to do nothing”. As you said whatever happened is going to happen no matter what. Kane telling john that there was an explosion on the day of the opera pretty much foiled sator’s plan. If john knows where and when the explosion is, one way or another, he can prevent it from making its way to the future as intended. Sators plan was foiled from the start, but only if they continued with the mission as they need to. So again whats happened happened = they save the world, but its not an excuse to do nothing = they need to save the world to have saved it in the first place.

[@drandrewm]

When teenage Sator kills his partner after finding the first algorithm, he looked as if he was following personal instructions. His name was on the document and there is the rule to kill all who comes in contact.

[@FinancialShinanigan]

Normally I watch at 2x speed but I went -2x speed for this one

[@tomvanderveer1535]

I feel like this movie would have been much easier to understand if I could actually hear what the damn actors were saying smh

[@sam2177138]

Bought the movie and watched it with subtitles so I dont miss a damn thing, slightly clearer but still confusing AF. But I'm the type that tries to understand the science/theory behind it so it was hard

[@msjadhav5192]

Lol..thanks for subtitles

[@Otokichi786]

Yep, I treated this like a foreign language movie, since the voice level of the actors was "whsiper quiet" at times.:(

[@somerandomuser5155]

NOLAN and IMAX always have bad Vocal Sound Same shit happen with The Dark Knight Can't hear a single word

[@somerandomuser5155]

That 2049 movie also have bad Vocal Sound

[@kildare2940]

This movie literally asked the question. “What if we saw time traveling happening?”

[@aaronalcatraz7083]

Yeah doesn't matter how many times I watch this video I'm not understanding this movie 😔 im just going to feeling it 😂

[@daudalenz8937]

The opening(Opera)scene reminds of how Bane and his goons took over the Stadium in the Dark Knight Rises..

[@kkandsims4612]

I mean bane legit was not a villain you can’t change my mind like the fact he was like fuck the rich is spot on unless your rich now was he a little aggressive about yes but meh

[@rich369963]

@@kkandsims4612 Lol You obviously didn't understand the Dark Knight Rises. It wasn't fuck the rich. It was fuck everybody. He overthrew the rich in order to make everybody suffer equally. At the end of the movie, Bane tried to kill everybody. He didn't let anybody live. Rich or poor.

[@Targüs42]

This isn't an explanation, this is an extended Wikipedia plot sunmary.

[@Ooog__]

Nolan is honestly a genius making this film, the whole temporal pincer thing is amazing and really well thought out. how did he even come up with this?

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

formed by an idea, the beginning of "Tenet", through "Inception". Quite easy, right? ,subconscious his in back inverted lla ti ,gnimaerd ,gnipeels elihw ,no retal tub ,desever ,dnatsrednu tn'dluoc eh hcihw ,llac a mih evag self erutuf siH

[@demonmonsterdave]

drugs

[@seanrichardgreen]

I’m pretty sure this movie makes no sense. I appreciate this.

[@vanessaandresson7318]

it does actually hahaha, but you HAVE to focus like crazy when watching it

[@seanrichardgreen]

@@vanessaandresson7318 yeah I know I plan on watching it again (like all Nolan movies they are on there own level) and yes I need to focus on it. A lot of movies don’t require such attention and I think that’s why this one gets the wrap it has. I want to like it, I will give it more tries.

[@seanrichardgreen]

Ooops I meant “their”, not “there” 😌

[@jewey1894]

@@seanrichardgreen I’ve seen it twice in theaters and it makes SO much more sense as you watch it again. You’ll catch little things that Nolan is such a perfectionist to include. The physics of the Tenet universe still make little sense to me but I can follow the scenes much better

[@seanrichardgreen]

@@jewey1894 UPDATE: Just saw this again just now, and THANK YOU ALL for the tip to pay super close attention, honestly. I totally got it this time and I can say that it is a very well done movie, the pacing is awesome. Can't share too much for those that dont want to the tricks of the story spoiled. The Internet helped me today! I am assuming that since I have largely spend WAY TOO much time on short attention span cinema, tv and you toobs or that I have also logged a lot of time with a show or a new movie on in the background that I havent had to spend too much time focused on a story. This movie is like a 007/Mission Impossible movie that still fancies itself as an old British Spy thriller. The music is wonderful yet I cant help but think what if Portishead did the soundtrack! Anyhoo looks like Nolan got his 007 movie after all!

[@CeceGames]

this video was so helpful because I was asking questions for literally the entire movie because I had absolutely no idea what was going on

[@axelboom]

fun fact: this is the highest grossing film of all time in Estonia.

[@madeniquevanwyk]

Okay ngl, that's cute as heck

[@hrsmp]

Because Sator is Estonian?

[@paytonprovo8136]

@@hrsmp pretty sure Sator is Russian. I think the whole car chase scene takes place in Estonia.

[@dxo6863]

@@paytonprovo8136 I spotted some Finnish firetrucks and signs in one car chase.

[@PrettyPinkPersephone]

Estonians just have a thing for mind bending nigh-nonsensical movies. Wild

[@razibbaraljoy9978]

In inverse time when you poop, it will go inside.

[@zzesia]

wtf is your problem man. Stop

[@dsmyify]

Long time ago at a Blur concert. The big screen behind the band played a coiled turd at rest. It started to unfold as it re-entered the hole it came from... about seven thousand people simultaneously cried out in disgust... I've never forget.

[@Littlekidlover22]

That’s the worst part of this time travel concept. Your bladder doesn’t empty it fills up.

[@shahwiqarshahin2130]

Yup... in Red Dwarf S03E01, they did the concept of pooping in inverted time... "Don't ask"

[@scribeofrebirth1431]

Ewwww

[@saraiam3629]

I cannot stop laughing about the then & now...well then & now. That cut to Chris during his tiny confusion is priceless.

[@KyandraS]

You could literally have whole classes trying to breakdown this movie ☠️

[@Vapourwear]

They would be as useful as a "studies" degree, and almost as intelligent.

[@weirdoscorner1917]

I know. He really could. Honestly I’d sign up and be there I watched this movie twice. It confused the hell out of me and my family.

[@icedude11214]

Professor: Today we will discuss the relativity of time, has anybody watched Tenet? Me: oh boy, im either going to get it or walk out more confused than ever

[@yummychips_]

actually not really. The movie is very straight forward. Neil's entire journey explains it. The more you learn, the more you realize that things need to happen because they already happened. That is why ignorance was so powerful. Knowing meant you no longer could change anything without reprecussions. Neil probably didn't know things at the start, but as the movie went on he began to realize what he had to do, and accept death so that the org can be made. The creation of the org leads to his death, they are linked. It was self-fulling, and leaving it to chance wasn't an option. That is what Neil meant at the end. He had to see it through to the end, or else something could change. He also had to be prepared to deal with any changing threats. He basically exists in that pocket timeline knowing full well that anything could come. That is why the future is fked, and why the org was created. The more people realized that time can be tampered with, the more they realized how they screwed themselves. Ignorance is the only solution. Everything in the movie is completely straight forward, it just seems complicated because it wasn't explained well enough. They also wanted to leave ambiguity for plot and reasoning, which makes it hard to fully explain things. If you knew exactly what was going on, it boils down to a movie about stopping a bad guy who wants to destroy the world. This movie was just taking a spin on creating an action adventure flick using a unique gimmick.

[@icedude11214]

@@yummychips_ i get most of it, what I need more clarification is how did the inverted neil get into the bunker before the protagonist+ives and volkov? the city was already occupied and guarded and had temporal pincer in place. There is no scene that I remember to show how neil could have gone into the turnstile and made it through both normal and inverted units. The hole in the ceiling isn't an option since the humvee wouldn't be there. Can someone help me out

[@craiven3527]

This whole movie had me going " wait hold up why ,how and wait what "

[@ffejpsycho]

Thats not a good thing...

[@lovelyblaze]

This’ll take you a minute to figure out...

[@randomperson4321]

i dont need sleep i need answers!

[@torontoenvironment9899]

@@ffejpsycho maybe your education is the issue

[@ffejpsycho]

@@torontoenvironment9899 you never know...🤔

[@KP3Times]

Denzel Washington’s son is a beast of an actor in the making

[@A_YouTube_Commenter]

Doing great so far.

[@ollehkacb]

Thats his son? Coolio. Doesnt have the same action vibe a definitive has a good hero vibe.

[@courtneygardner6334]

Have you seen ballers he's already a beast just slept on

[@jothishprabu8]

He can't act shit lol

[@ntube7]

Is he really his son or are you just saying that?

[@chugchugjr9498]

I had a friend that WOULD NOT stop talking about this movie, he absolutely loved it and I had to deal with his constant obsession with it.

[@eflarrow666megadeth]

That's me!

[@SpyTrader1988]

I’m also that friend

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

Sorry.

[@estoylaroca]

This is the type of movie that you appreciate after minutes / hours / days of thinking of the plot. I wouldn't lump this with inception, memento or other Nolan films, because with memento, you get a mind blow effect at the end of the film, and subsequent watches will make you appreciate the film. With inception, you already "get" the film, and the subsequent thoughts would be theory crafting or interpretations (like, was he really in the real world... or how much time did he spend in the dream world etc.) With this though, subsequent watching will not only make you appreciate the film, but it's almost downright crucial to understand what's going on. Nolan truly transcended how "mind bending" films work with this one. But I will have to be honest, that if a more indie film maker would've done this, I would've brushed it off as being ???? But since it's made by Nolan, I took the time to actually figure out what he was trying to convey... and it's definitely different from the usual films, even to his standard.

[@linkinparkdj14]

About 30 min in, I had to tell myself to not compare this to Inception, because it’s an entire beast unto itself. His films will be broken down generations after we have all passed.

[@LexgenMedia]

This movie was unbelievably mind bending and head hurting confusing.

[@sumared]

Neil is Max. His full name being MaximilLIEN (Neil inverted). This is why Neil has known The Protagonist for years and eventually recruits him after creating Tenet. This also explains their ages. Mind blown 🤯

[@dubchung]

wtf this is the first time I've ever heard of this theory and I'm losing my shit hold up

[@jessenbhd8713]

ok but wouldnt Kat know her own son

[@phoenixrising8231]

@@jessenbhd8713 not if she dies before he hits puberty.

[@msjadhav5192]

For some reason I got that part..

[@MugetsuSSGOD]

That was a given

[@ssk3204]

It's the type of movie that makes you think about it for days. It's a masterpiece of a movie.

[@mrchuckey8972]

I want a sequel so hard or prequel, I do not care, I just want a second Part of tenet 🤩

[@ellenfox6869]

I would love a story with Niel I feel like there’s more there then they showed

[@mrchuckey8972]

From the Protagonist point of view would it be an sequel and from Neil's point of view would it be an prequel, imagine that.

[@Otokichi786]

No thank you, there's enough complexity in the Real World to make the Reel World as complex as a tax form written by a OCD lawyer.

[@seanhettenbach2101]

Nolan doesn't do those

[@mrchuckey8972]

I know, but I still have hopes.

[@Black1Panduh]

You lost me at "who I will just call John".

[@AlisonBryen]

I carried on watching but his decision to refer to The Protagonist as John pissed me off until the end...

[@ellenfox6869]

I lost it at “and they were promptly tortured by the Russian gang”

[@fad2679]

This isn't an explanation, this is a narration. There's a difference.

[@krystalschrand4256]

Yeah that’s all his videos. I stopped watching most of his stuff a few years ago for this reason but I was hoping this would be different. Oh well

[@t3knoman00]

This movie sounds like I will have to watch it several times...

[@juliusejudo]

After the 3rd watch, and with much musings upon its themes i can say with some confidence that i understand this movie

[@bingsinatra5283]

I understand the movie... my problem with it is, it's just isn't very good.

[@frankieb9444]

Watches the entire video Me: "So he was his own grandfather!"

[@vivinoviana5243]

that's what I'm saying too

[@levischorpioen]

Different time-travel movie.